We tied up all loose ends end and put the binding on our exploration into the underground railroad, quilts, and Black History. Yesterday, Mrs. T. and I used the computer lab to teach searching and computer navigation skills by using a
website about the
Gee's Bend quilters from Alabama. We learned about archives and archival sources by clicking through
photographs of the
Gee's Bend community taken by
Arthur Rothstein in the 1930's and 1940's. Their lives were very different from ours!
Then, we pretended to be curators of our own museum through an interactive portion of the website that allows the user to create a
virtual exhibit. Finally, we designed our own symmetrical and
asymmetrical quilt blocks with another
interactive feature on the website.
All over St. Therese, "learning quilts" adorn the hallways. Have you seen them?
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