This is a full unit (PowerPoint, handouts, rubric & plans) for extending students knowledge of handforming clay -- specifically creating pinch pots -- and being able to utilize the technique into the creation of something more sophisticated.
12 Keeps,
2 Likes,
0 Comments
THE PLAN
6 sessions; 80 minutes per session
Students will be able to:
1. Create a pinch pot
2. Use slip & score method
3. Properly Wedge their clay
4. Properly glaze their bisque fired piece
5. Use terms associated with this unit
1. Clay
2. Container for making slip
3. Water
4. Fettling Knife
5. Scoring Tool
6. Glaze
7. Kiln
8. Handouts
Class sessions will not be back-to-back. Due to the nature of drying/firing time of clay there will be another project that will run concurrent with this project, and dovetail into the time left available from this project.
*** Students have already completed creation of basic pinch pots and have been wedging clay ***
Size -- no more than 5" in any direction
Class Period 1 & Homework
1. Students to see presentation on Monster Project as inspiration and introduction to project -- also spend time discussing ideas -- possible fears, expressions, etc.
2. Students to complete handout on Monster Project, drawing examples as listed.
---------------------------------
Class Period 2
3. Students to have demo on slip & score technique
4. Students to work on creation of Pinch Pot Monster -- making sure to properly spray and wrap project at the end of each class period.
----------------------------------
Class Period 3 & half of 4
Continue creation of monster -- Leave uncovered if completely done.
---> Use other half of class period 4 to introduce next project & give drawing/research homework
-------------------------------------------
When dry "scrubbie" pieces so that they are clean and smooth if desired. (15-20 minutes)
------------------------------------------
Periods 5 & 6
Students know about glazes and the pouring method and brushing method from previous projects -- if not, will need to be demo'd and taught here.
Glazing project using provided glazes (I used gloss, matte, and teachers choice glazes + clear over top if needed/wanted)
------------------------------------------
Class period 7 -- Hand in with completed rubric & questions, thumbnail drawings, and any other research.
See Attached Rubric
A few of my students struggled with finding an idea and getting started, but once they started....they seemed to really enjoy this project!
THE STANDARDS
Visual Arts Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
[9-12 Proficient] Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use
[9-12 Proficient] Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks
[9-12 Advanced] Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
Visual Arts Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions
[9-12 Proficient] Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions
[9-12 Proficient] Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art
[9-12 Proficient] Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems
[9-12 Advanced] Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions
Visual Arts Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
[9-12 Proficient] Students apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life
[9-12 Advanced] Students evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used in the students' works and in significant works by others
Visual Arts Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
[9-12 Advanced] Students analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations of meaning
[9-12 Advanced] Students analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, purposes, and critical models, showing understanding of the work of critics, historians, aestheticians, and artists
Visual Arts Standard 5: Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
[9-12 Proficient] Students reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art
[9-12 Proficient] Students identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works
[9-12 Advanced] Students correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions
Share!
Comment!