Are you wondering how the Iditarod Traveling Quilt is used as a teaching tool by teachers? View these lesson ideas. Use the lesson or similar ideas with the Iditarod Traveling Quilt or your own student made quilt.
These lessons can be used at any grade level.
Iditarod Traveling Quilt 1: by Mrs. Rickert
PowerPoint Presentation for Lesson
Iditarod Traveling Quilt 1: by Mrs. Dobson
The messages and images on each square of the Iditarod Traveling Quilt serve as a point of interest for the students to study. The content of each square is worthy of discussion and an opportunity for writing. Students observe, write, and publish their writing project.
Writing with the Quilt Lesson (PDF)
Iditarod Traveling Quilt 2: by Judi Roach
Judi attached a sticky note to each square of the quilt to help students identify each square by a number in order to complete the scavenger hunt. activity. For this activity, the students read and observed the squares, discussed the messages and images, and created the questions that were used for this scavenger hunt. Powerful lessons are created when students are involved in creating the lesson activity for each other!
Scavenger Hunt and Journal (PDF)
Students in Ms. Prather’s classroom in California created their own classroom quilt. This quilt will be ‘traveling’ around the school district during the 2009-2010 school year.
