What Educators are saying about “What Do You See?”
“What Do You See? beautifully celebrates cultures and abilities. A perfect picture book to start or continue the conversation about diversity and inclusion, while celebrating the arts through a variety of colorful quilt patterns. There is an endless opportunity for classroom discussions and art projects sparked by this simple, but powerful book.”
— Christina Dankert, 2nd Grade Teacher, Author of The Kindness Machine
“All children love color and shapes. Nancy Bordine brings these two key elements into every page of What Do You See? Each page introduces an incredibly engaging and diversified young character, who shares their visual interpretation of a quilt block’s pattern. Jonny Jimison’s illustrations emphasize diversity and inclusion. Joy and friendship permeate the book.”
— Christina Esper, Retired School Librarian and Principal
Lesson Plans are in rows of 3 columns below (keep scrolling down)
Shapes Identification/Kindergarten MMS K.G.2
Goals: Children recognize squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cones, cylinders, and spheres
Children identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cones, cylinders, and spheres
Read “What Do You See?” to children, allowing them to view quilt patterns
Provide each child with a Shapes handout (find at bottom of this lesson)
Ask the children: “Which one of the quilt patterns was made with squares?” “How do we know that this is a square?”
“Which one of the quilt patterns was made with triangles?” “How do we know that this is a square?”
“Which one of the quilt patterns has rectangles in it?” “How do we know this shape is a rectangle?”
“Which one of the quilt patterns has hexagons in it?” “How do we know that this shape is a hexagon?” “Which one of the shapes is a cone?” “How do we know that it is a cone?” “Which one of the shapes is a cylinder?” “How do we know that it is a cylinder?” “Which one of the shapes is a sphere?” “How do we know that it is a sphere?”
Allow children to color quilt designs and shapes(see slide below)
Shapes Identification/Grade 2 MMS 2.G5.
Goals Children will identify Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Pentagons, Hexagons, and Cubes
Use images and questions below to have students identify the above listed shapes
Quilts and the Underground Railroad (in progress)
‘Shares of’ Geometry/Grade 1 MMS1.G.3.
Goals: Children recognize equal shares
Children identify shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters; and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of
Children describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares
Provide each child with handout of circle on heavy paper scissors an object to flatten creases
Demonstrate with cut-out circle: “Take on side of the circle and fold it so that it matches the other side” (show your folded folded in half) “Push down hard across the fold to make a firm crease so it looks like this” (show your folded and creased circle) “Now open your circle flat to see how the crease divides the whole circle into two equal halves” (point to each halve of your circle) “Do you see how one of the two parts of the whole is ‘half of ‘the whole?” “now fold one side of one-half circle over to match the other side of one-half circle and crease it firmly so it looks like this.” (show your half circle folded over itself) “Now open your folds.” (show your twice-folded circle opened up) “Do you see how the whole circle is sectioned into four equal parts?” (count the four sections aloud as you point to them) “Do you see how each section could be described as ‘one fourth’ of the whole?” “You could also describe each of the four equal sections as a ‘quarter of’ the whole.”
Advanced Shapes/ Grade 3 MMS2.NF3B.
(in progress)
Goals: Children will generate simple equivalent fractions. Children will generate simple equivalent fractions. Children will explain why the fractions are equivalent by using a visual fraction model.
Lines of Symmetry/Grade 4 MMS4.G3.
Goals: Children will recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Children will identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Provide children with: Printout out of quilt designs (seen below) Straight edge Pen or pencil
Ask the children: “Look at these quilt patterns to find the images that if you drew a straight line across the figure, it would form two matching parts.” “Which patterns have line symmetry?” “Do any patterns not have line symmetry?” “Why do they not have line symmetry?”
Quadrilaterals How many shapes are in this pattern? Parallel quadrilaterals in the facets of the stars, Blue squares between the star blocks, White squares in the corners, Rectangular quadrilaterals in each column and row of blocks.
Hexagons What shapes are in this pattern? Are their any other shapes in this pattern?
Hexagons What shape is in this pattern? What other shapes are in this pattern? White and yellow parallel quadrilaterals in enlarged block.
Triangles and Quadrilaterals How many shapes are in this block? Paired right-angle triangles create larger 2-toned triangles. White, right angle triangles along edges form white background. Paired white, right angle triangles form quadrilaterals between colored triangles. Each row and column of connected triangles form a rectangle, which is also a parallelogram, and a quadrilateral.
Pentagons What shape is in this pattern? Can a Pentagon be a Quadrilateral? Why, or Why not? Why are Pentagons such a challenging shape for quilt patterns?
Cubes and Quadrilaterals What shapes are in this pattern? Are the lightest shapes the top of ascending cubes, or the bottoms of descending cubes?
