Ceramics Mixed Media
Lesson Relevance
Students will create a minimum of 7 inch mixed media sculpture. This sculpture will have to include clay and some type of other media like yarn, wire, or bottle caps. Students will have to incorporate surface texture, and or movement into the piece.
Concepts
Media
Mixed Media
Movement
Texture
Surface design
Function vs. non functional
Essential Understanding
Students will create a sculpture that is incorporating two different types of media, one which will be clay. They also will be focusing on surface texture and creating movement with the sculpture. Students need to be focusing on the process of how to incorporate a different media into, like making holes that they will be use to weave yarn into their piece. Students will be mixing media and working on surface texture and design.
Colorado Visual Art Standards
1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
2.Envision and Critique toReflect
3. Invent and Discover to Create
4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Objectives/Outcomes/Learning Targets
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Students will sketch 3 different sketches of their ideas, and then create a material list of what they need for their mixed media project. (Visual Art Standard #3: Invent and Discover to create. GLE: . GLE: Utilize the practice of sketching and planning. Art Learning: Composition and shape. Vocab: Movement and texture)
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With their Sketch students will create their project by incorporating mix media.(Visual Art Standard #4 Relate and connect to Transfer. GLE: Creating their sculpture by adding a mixed media element. Art Learning: Bisque, green ware. Vocab: function and non-functional
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With their Green ware project students will submit a photo to Padlet for a in progress critique. (Visual Art Standard #2, Envision and Critique to Reflect. GLE: reflecting and commenting on classmates work to improve on their project. Art Learning: Critique and reflect Art Learning: Critique and reflect
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With their Bisque project students will glaze their projects and then add mixed media elements(Visual Art Standard #3 Invent and Discover to Create. GLE: Glazing their projects and incorporating their mixed media. Art Learning: Glazing. Vocab: Glazing)
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After their projectis glazed and added mix media, they will reflect and submit a final photo.(Visual Art Standard #1 Observe and Learn to comprehend. GLE: Reflecting on their final projects and what they could improve on. Art Learning: Reflection. Vocab: Reflect and constructive criticism.)
Differentiation
Access (Resources and/or Process)
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Students will have clay pre wedged for them and can have assistance with rolling coils
Expression (Products and/or Performance)
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Students will have clay that is measured and pre wedged for them and that way they can start building their sculpture
Extension
Access (Resources and/or Process)
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Students will throw their sculpture onto the wheel and will have to create a sculpture that is also functional
Expression (Products and/or Performance)
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Students will throw their sculpture on the wheel, and will be challenged to create a sculpture that is also functional.
Material
Clay
Ribs
Scoring tools
Buckets
Water
Sketchbook
Kiln
Glazes
Pencils
Found material
Literacy
Coils
Rib
Slip and scoring
Compressing
Movement
Surface texture
Glazing
Reflecting
Bisque
Green ware
Bone dry
Resources
Inquiry Questions
What is media? What are some ways that we use media in art? Think about material you used in art class when you were little
Now that we know about media, what is mixed media going to like? And how can we incorporate into clay? What are something that you need to think about when it is in the green ware stage?
Student Work
Students Final Work
Student Reflective Activity
Students will complete a reflection sheet for their project and submit it online. This will give them a chance to create a artist statement, and reflect on their project.
Teacher Reflection
Overall, I think this lesson went well. The students seemed excited about this lesson and to have a project that is so open ended. I wish I would have asked more engaging questions in the beginning to have more a reflection conversation. And I think the students did not have a chance to produce the work they wanted due the time crunch that they had.
Lesson Plan