Activity

Tessellations and Quilts

Teach students with visual impairments about tessellations using the real-life example of patchwork quilts.

quilt collage

You can extend this lesson by investingating the history of quilting: http://www.quilting-in-america.com/History-of-Quilts.html

Additional lessons can connect to the AIDS memorial quilt: http://www.aidsquilt.org/about/the-aids-memorial-quilt

To make a panel for the AIDS quilt:  http://www.aidsquilt.org/make-a-panel/step-by-step-instructions

By Susan LoFranco

Attached File(s)

https://www.perkins.org/sites/elearning.perkinsdev1.org/files/Tesselation%20Quilt.pdf

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