Cross-Curriculum Scrapbook
During this project, each fourth-grade student creates a scrapbook based on historic figures, places, and events in the history of Western North Carolina. This collaborative project involves the fourth grade and visual arts teachers, the media coordinator, and computer lab assistant. This project will focus on five areas: traditional mountain music and dance, the Cataloochee Valley, the Civil War in Western North Carolina, the Cherokee, and the Zebulon Vance Birthplace.
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Geometry in Traditional Quilt Designs
This geometry unit is designed for seventh grade math and pre-algebra students. Students will be contacting local and regional quilters in an effort to learn about the history of quilting, as well as exploring the designs, patterns, colors and cultural influence in our area. This discovery will include people of all cultures who have moved to this area and blended their quilting traditions with those of the people of western North Carolina. Their search will include, but is not limited to the Afro-American and Native American cultures. In this quest for information, they will attempt to discover new patterns, designs and variations created by the people of this area.
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Mountain Crafts and Traditions
and Their Changes Over Time
This unit is designed for 4th graders studying North Carolina history. Students will explore aspects of mountain life around the turn of the century as well as aspects of mountain life today and assess changes to crafts and traditions over time. Students will be active participants in quilting, carving, cooking, blacksmithing, singing, dancing, soap-making, and other craft activities.
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Quilting
Children will use books, magazines, Internet, people from our county and any other resources to gain background knowledge of quilt history, and the stories quilts tell. As a culminating activity, students will write a story about a special memory and design a quilt block to illustrate their story.
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