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Art -- The Secret to Freedom

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Fourth graders create a coded message in a quilt. In this art lesson plan students demonstrate the communication used by the Underground Railroad. Students work in a group to make a quilt with a code in it.

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the underground railroad, fugitive slaves, the united states civil war

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civil war, message quilt, social conflicts, the secret to freedom by marcia vaughan, underground raiload, social studies
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Grade
4th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning
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