This document outlines a ceramics curriculum for high school students over several weeks. It includes introducing various ceramics techniques like slab building and coil pottery. Each class period focuses on a different skill, with teachers demonstrating techniques and students practicing and providing feedback. The goal is for students to create ceramic pieces that represent elements of art or principles of design while learning about the ceramic design process.
This document outlines a ceramics curriculum for high school students over several weeks. It includes introducing various ceramics techniques like slab building and coil pottery. Each class period focuses on a different skill, with teachers demonstrating techniques and students practicing and providing feedback. The goal is for students to create ceramic pieces that represent elements of art or principles of design while learning about the ceramic design process.
This document outlines a ceramics curriculum for high school students over several weeks. It includes introducing various ceramics techniques like slab building and coil pottery. Each class period focuses on a different skill, with teachers demonstrating techniques and students practicing and providing feedback. The goal is for students to create ceramic pieces that represent elements of art or principles of design while learning about the ceramic design process.
This document outlines a ceramics curriculum for high school students over several weeks. It includes introducing various ceramics techniques like slab building and coil pottery. Each class period focuses on a different skill, with teachers demonstrating techniques and students practicing and providing feedback. The goal is for students to create ceramic pieces that represent elements of art or principles of design while learning about the ceramic design process.
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Ice breaker Ice breaker SGOs Distribute elements of Distribute principles of activity activity Visual vocabulary art worksheet design worksheet Mini discussion Binders worksheet Model for students how Explain how elements of what is ceramics? Trays Classroom to identify the elements art make up principles of Display classroom Explain classroom scavenger hunt tool of art in a piece of design expectations, routines vocabulary activity ceramics and how to Break students up into 9 allow students to Model clean up find the identifying groups and assign each contribute rules of practices for information group a principle of design their own students Students will select two Students will work in their pieces of ceramics from groups to create a a magazine and will drawing representing write the identifying their principle of design information as well as Groups will share the element of art Pair and share interview February 5 (half February 6 February 7 February 8 February 9 day) Introduce slab Discuss the thickness of Have students unwrap Creative process lesson Students will and coil methods clay and how it needs their clay slabs and share Students will finish their sketch out a design of building to be ¼ inch their observations sketches of a ceramic for a ceramic piece Model for all throughout Explain the three stages of piece that represents an that represents an students how to Model for students clay, pass out worksheet element of design element of art or a complete both how to ensure their Model for students how to Students may begin principle of design techniques piece is an even bevel, score and slip their constructing their piece Students will roll thickness and how to two leather hard slabs of inspired by an out three slabs create hollow forms clay element/principle Students will take Students will practice Students will bevel and Emphasize that this should one slab and creating and combining score their slabs be a small piece utilize it as a base pinch pots for their coil practice. Model for students how to properly wrap up their work February 12 February 13 February 14 February 15 February 16 Introduce and Students will I will go over the Go over visual arts rubric School closed model wedging for continue watch points for Student group activity, students constructing their potters’ worksheet compare peer work to Students will piece inspired by Students will the rubric continue an continue constructing constructing their element/principle their piece piece inspired by an element/principle February 19 February 20 February 21 February 22 February 23 School closed Teach and facilitate Introduce new Model for students how Students will finish their the Feldman art project; slab building to turn their idea into a templates and will roll out criticism method with a template template for their slab slabs Students will perform construction Students will trace and research and begin Students will create their cut out the pieces of their sketching their ideas template for their piece template February 26 February 27 February 28 March 1 March 2 Students will Students will Students will Compare the surface Students will continue bevel the edges of continue scoring continue scoring and and the form with working on their slab their slabs and will and slipping their slipping their slabs students construction begin scoring and slabs together together Surface decoration slipping their slabs Students will lesson, texturing tools, together compare their work carving designs to the rubric Model these processes for students March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 March 9 Students will Glaze lesson, Students will Students will continue to Students will fill out an continue working opaque vs continue planning test the glaze on their evaluation sheet on their on their slab transparent the glaze for their element of art/principle bisque ware piece and on construction and Students will piece of design piece their test glaze piece will begin finishing continue working Model for students Students who have I will model how to use up their piece on their piece how to apply glaze finished will fill out an the glaze map Students who are Students will test evaluation sheet Students will then move done will plan the the glaze on their I will introduce the glaze on to glaze their final glaze for their element of map to students who are piece piece art/principle of ready to glaze their final design piece piece March 12 March 13 March 14 March 15 March 16 Students will Students will Art criticism activity History of coil pottery Students will continue continue to glaze continue to glaze on form and surface Introduce artist Maria sketching an idea for coil their final piece their final piece treatment Martinez pottery using the glaze using the glaze Artist statements Review of coil building Students may begin map map maybe? Students will begin rolling out a slab for the Students who Students who sketching an idea for coil base of their coil pot have finished have finished pottery glazing and their glazing and their piece is fired will piece is fired will fill out an fill out an evaluation sheet evaluation sheet If a student is If a student is finished very early, finished very early, they will be tasked they will be tasked with creating a with creating a wearable form of wearable form of ceramics (beads, a ceramics (beads, a pin, buttons, etc.) pin, buttons, etc.) March 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 Introduce a jig to Students will Students will Students will continue Students will continue the students and begin building up continue building up building up coils and building up coils and using model how to coils for their pot coils and using their using their jigs their jigs create and utilize jigs one Students will create a jig reflecting the shape of their coil pot March 26 March 27 March 28 March 29 March 30 Contemporary Discuss and show Students will Students who have School closed artist video examples of continue building finished will begin Students will innovative lips up coils and using glazing their coil pot continue building and rims their jigs and will using a glaze map up coils and using Students will be encouraged to their jigs continue building begin finishing up coils and using their pots their jigs and will Students who be encouraged to have finished will begin finishing begin glazing their pots their coil pot using a glaze map April 2 April 3 April 4 April 5 April 6 Half day Students will Students will glaze Students will finish Last day of marking period Students will glaze their coil their coil pot using glazing their ceramic Students will complete glaze their coil pot using a a glaze map piece. an evaluation sheet for pot using a glaze map Students whose Students whose pot their ceramic piece. glaze map Students whose pot has been has been glazed and Small group instruction pot has been glazed and fired fired will fill out an for students on how to glazed and fired will fill out an evaluation sheet properly take will fill out an evaluation sheet Small group photographs of their evaluation instruction for work. I will give sheet students who have students an finished the opportunity to write an evaluation sheet how artist statement and to properly take will create an online photographs of their gallery of the student work. I will give work students an opportunity to write an artist statement and will create an online gallery of the student work April 9 April 10 April 11 April 12 April 13 Spring break Spring break Spring break Spring break Spring break April 16 April 17 April 18 April 19 April 20 Show examples Introduce the Students will Students will continue Students will continue of innovative project to either utilize the to make the body, to assemble their combinations of students, they combined pinch arms, legs, and head creatures and create pinch pots will create an pots they created of their creatures. details Review of how animal or for practice or will They will attach these to create a creature, either create new pinch I will model for pinch pot and one that exists pots to create the students how to how to combine or one from body of their create texture for the two pinch pots their own creature surface of their smoothly imagination I will model for creatures Students will Show examples students how to practice this Students will create seamless sketch out their cylinders for arms, ideas for legs and necks of the creatures April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26 April 27 Students will Students will Students will Students will begin to Students will finish up continue to continue to continue to add the finishing their animal/creatures assemble their assemble their assemble their touches to their Students will plan out creatures and creatures and creatures and animal/creature how they intend to create details create details create details creations glaze their piece in a sketch April 30 May 1 May 2 May 3 May 4 Students will Students will Students will Students will finish Last day begin glazing continue glazing continue glazing glazing their piece and Students will complete their pieces their pieces their pieces their glaze map an evaluation sheet for according to according to according to their Students whose work their fired ceramic their sketch and their sketch and sketch and record has been fired will piece record the record the the layers in their complete an layers in their layers in their glaze map evaluation sheet glaze map glaze map
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