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Grade 3 Art Exploring Ceramic

This lesson plan teaches 2nd and 3rd grade students about clay and sculpting gingerbread men. Students will learn basic clay techniques like rolling, pinching, pressing and stamping to construct geometric and organic shapes. They will decorate clay slabs to make picture frames and ornaments, and attach cut out gingerbread men figures. The teacher will demonstrate techniques and circulate to assist students. Assessment includes formative checks for understanding during the lesson. The goal is for students to understand how details enrich forms and to express feelings, beliefs and interests visually.

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Grade 3 Art Exploring Ceramic

This lesson plan teaches 2nd and 3rd grade students about clay and sculpting gingerbread men. Students will learn basic clay techniques like rolling, pinching, pressing and stamping to construct geometric and organic shapes. They will decorate clay slabs to make picture frames and ornaments, and attach cut out gingerbread men figures. The teacher will demonstrate techniques and circulate to assist students. Assessment includes formative checks for understanding during the lesson. The goal is for students to understand how details enrich forms and to express feelings, beliefs and interests visually.

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Lesson Plan: Art: Clay Gingerbread Men

Grade/Subject: Grade 2/3 Science


Topic B: Building With a Variety of Materials
Length of Lesson: 55 min

Date: Nov 28, 2016


Name: Nicole Riedmueller

General Learning
Expectation

Component 3
APPRECIATION: Students will interpret artworks literally.
Component 4
MAIN FORMS AND PROPORTIONS: Students will learn the shapes of things as well
as develop decorative styles.
Component 6
QUALITIES AND DETAILS: Students will represent surface qualities of objects and
forms.
Component 9
CRAFTSMANSHIP: Students will add finishing touches.
Concepts
Component 10
(i) - PURPOSE 3: Students will decorate items personally created.
Concepts
(i) - PURPOSE 4: Students will express a feeling or a message.
Concepts
MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES: Students will use media and techniques, with an
emphasis on exploration and direct methods in drawing, painting, print making,
sculpture, fabric arts, photography and technographic arts.

Specific Learning
Expectation

APPRECIATION:
A. Art takes different forms depending on the materials and techniques used.
F. All aspects of an artwork contribute to the story it tells.
MAIN FORMS AND PROPORTIONS:
B. Shapes can be depicted as organic or geometric.
C. Shapes can be made using different procedures; e.g., cutting, drawing, tearing,
QUALITIES AND DETAILS:
A. Texture is a surface quality that can be captured by rubbings or markings.
B. Textures form patterns.
F. Details enrich forms.
CRAFTSMANSHIP:
A. Finishing touches (accents, contrasts, outlines) can be added to make a work
more powerful.
(i) - PURPOSE 3:
A. Details, patterns or textures can be added to two-dimensional works.
B. Details, patterns or textures can be added to the surface of three-dimensional
(i) - PURPOSE 4:
A. Feelings and moods can be interpreted visually.
B. Specific messages, beliefs and interests can be interpreted visually, or
symbolized.
MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES:
D. Sculpture
Make two- and three-dimensional assemblages from found materials.
Learn the care and handling of clay, and explore the modelling possibilities.
Use simple clay modelling techniques of rolling, pinching, adding, pressing,
making coils, texturing.

Learning
Objectives

I can construct geometric and organic shapes using clay tools


I can investigate qualities and details in the surface of the clay
I can understand that details enrich the forms
I can examine my own feelings, moods, beliefs and interests visually and symbolically

Materials

1. recycled stoneware clay


2. cardboard to work on
3. variety of clay tools

Procedure

I will demonstrate the techniques, then was around


and provide hands on help

Assessment Methods

Introduction
(5 min)
Previous
Knowledge:

(1 min) Pass out clay and have everyone watch


and dos we pound the clay into a ball

Review: I dont get it talk


aloud

Body of Lesson
(20 min.)

(25 min) Get to work. Demo the pinch pot bowl


I will circulate to answer
while walking around. Talk through it. Set
questions and assist with the
aside.
activity.
Demo a slab techniquehave student pound
Five Fingers and a Fist - Got
their clay into a slab on the cardboard. Using a
it? (Formative Assessment)
yogurt container they cut a circle for the picture
frame. Cut out the star for the middle. Pass
around Christmas rubber stamps to decorate the
surface of the slab. Encourage them to make
more slabs and make as many ornaments as they
wish. Cut out a gingerbread man. Cut out more
than one. I go around and help each table group
to attach their gingerbread man to the clay base
and to make sure that holes are in all the
ornaments. Encourage them tot make marks and
personalize them. Show them lego and other
things that can be used as stamps. Write names
on the cardboard, have them more them to the
side cupboard. Later I write makes on the back
of every piece with a pin tool. Cover loosely with
garbage bags so they do not dry to quickly or
unevenly.

Does everyone understand?


Five fingers and a fist
(Formative Assessment)

Closure
(10 min.)
Sponge Activity

Reflection:

(5 min) Clean up - we will quickly clean up our


materials.

sweeping the floor

Walk around

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