Project Description/Expedition:
You are a clay master and you want to showcase who you are to the world! you have already made a bunch of your favorite things out of clay and today you have decided that you want to work on creating your favorite food to add to your collection of art work of your personal interests. You also want to have a story for people to read that talks about why the food you chose to build with clay is your favorite
Essential Understanding:
Art work can be planned in two-dimensional format, then created into three-dimensional works of art. Artists can make art about subjects that are personal to them and create background stories and environments to support artist intent.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can create a sculpture of my favorite food using clay.
Key Concept(s):
Expression
Emotion
Observation
Improvisation
Shape
Technique
Skill(s):
Students will learn how to assemble clay sculptures
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring how to create clay sculptures.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: Three-Dimensional, Favorite, Coil, Pinch, Slip and Score
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process, Reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Student examples are below
You are a clay master and you want to showcase who you are to the world! you have already made a bunch of your favorite things out of clay and today you have decided that you want to work on creating your favorite food to add to your collection of art work of your personal interests. You also want to have a story for people to read that talks about why the food you chose to build with clay is your favorite
Essential Understanding:
Art work can be planned in two-dimensional format, then created into three-dimensional works of art. Artists can make art about subjects that are personal to them and create background stories and environments to support artist intent.
Inquiry/Learning target:
I can create a sculpture of my favorite food using clay.
Key Concept(s):
Expression
Emotion
Observation
Improvisation
Shape
Technique
Skill(s):
Students will learn how to assemble clay sculptures
Art Focus:
Students will be exploring how to create clay sculptures.
Literacy Focus:
Vocabulary: Three-Dimensional, Favorite, Coil, Pinch, Slip and Score
Literacy Integration: Verbalization of process, Reading of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Student examples are below
A student explains that we know his pyramid is made out of strawberries because it is red. He talks about how he made his pyramid out of strawberries because they are his favorite food. This student seemed to be inspired by one of the contemporary artist example, who created the pyramids out of cheese. However, because it is personal to him, it is red for strawberries. |
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A student explains how hi people are made out of broccoli and one of them has a face made of oranges and the other has a face made of strawberries. They are climbing a pyramid made out of strawberries because they wanted to. The student also describes how he has included a flower that is made out of oranges. This is another example of how students reacted to the contemporary examples we displayed at the beginning of class. |
A student explains her drawing about how she and her friend are climbing the pyramid to get to the strawberry pie. She also describes how the flower is made out of brownie, so it is a brownie flower. |
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A student explains that she is making her favorite food which is meat. She goes on to describe how her favorite meat is chicken. While she created the chicken, she used several different techniques to add texture to look similar to the meat and skin. At one point, she scraped the entire surface with her fork to make it look like the skin. Later on, she used her finger dipped in water to smooth parts of the surface. This was a great example of a piece that used slip and score not only to assemble parts together, but as surface design as well.
Another student discovers that his fork looks bigger if he puts it into his cup of water. He explains that the water just makes his fork big. |