Quilts can be used in classrooms as a tool for teaching students patterning, history, geometry, angles, literature, and much, much more.  The following sites would be helpful in creating activities related to other quilting lessons.

Lesson Ideas/Plans
http://sbgmath.com/gr3/310p363/310p363_inx0a.html http://www.imsa.edu/team/spi/impact2/1997/97PAGE5.HTM http://www.thecraftstudio.com/qwc/sharon.htm http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Quilt
http://www.thecraftstudio.com/qwc/
http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts
http://205.121.65.141/millville/teachers/carles/Carles94_95/Quilt/quilt.htm

Books
http://www.nmt.edu/~breynold/quiltfiction_kids.html http://www.nmt.edu/~breynold/burket.html

More Helpful Sites
http://americanhistory.si.edu/quilts
http://members.aol.com/sewquilty
http://www.quiltgallery.com/technique2.htm