Project/Unit Description/Expedition
The work that our kindergarten artists performed this week was in many ways an extension and rehearsal of the learning in which they engaged the week before. This lesson gave the students an opportunity to put their learning and discoveries into practice and to solidify their newly developed knowledge and skill. As before, the students used ceramic clay slabs as their medium and surface. The students engaged in an ideation oriented discussion and demonstration in order to help them establish a relationship between the creature that they created in the first lesson and the habitat in which that animal might live. The execution of these ideas required students to utilize the shape recognition learning that they acquired during several previous lessons.
The students used a variety of clay tools and techniques in order to create their ceramic relief drawings. However, during this week’s demonstrations and dialogue, the students engaged in a discussion about challenges that they had encountered while working with clay and about structural issues that arose due to the way that they manipulated the material. In addition to this reflection, the students observed the work of their peers and discussed their own artistic decisions and process.
Essential Understanding
Artists make observations and learn new techniques to create art.
Inquiry/Learning Target
How form, line, shape, and texture are used to create art using ceramic clay?
Key Concepts
Composition
Texture
Shape
Observation
Technique
Investigate/Discovery
Skill(s)
Identification and simplification of simple shapes within complex shapes and forms
Use of ceramic clay and clay art tools and technique
Idea generation and implementation
Reflection and analysis of one’s own artwork and the artwork of others
Art Focus
Students will focus on the properties of clay as an art medium and the use of a variety of clay art tools.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their own discoveries about the properties of clay and the subject and characteristics of their own artwork.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the use clay as an art medium. As our artists have already developed prior knowledge and a level of proficiency with the materials, they began their lesson with a short question and answer session and a demonstration. The discussion was conducted in order to stimulate prior knowledge and to help students begin the process of generating ideas for their own work.
Throughout the first and second demonstration, students were encouraged to think about and to share discoveries that they had made while working with clay. In addition, students engaged in a dialogue designed to help them generate ideas for their own work. At the completion of the first demonstration, the student artists returned to their workstations in order to create line drawings of their subject as the first stage of the process. Upon completion of their line drawings, the students participated in a gallery walk in order to view and make observations about the work of their peers.
The work that our kindergarten artists performed this week was in many ways an extension and rehearsal of the learning in which they engaged the week before. This lesson gave the students an opportunity to put their learning and discoveries into practice and to solidify their newly developed knowledge and skill. As before, the students used ceramic clay slabs as their medium and surface. The students engaged in an ideation oriented discussion and demonstration in order to help them establish a relationship between the creature that they created in the first lesson and the habitat in which that animal might live. The execution of these ideas required students to utilize the shape recognition learning that they acquired during several previous lessons.
The students used a variety of clay tools and techniques in order to create their ceramic relief drawings. However, during this week’s demonstrations and dialogue, the students engaged in a discussion about challenges that they had encountered while working with clay and about structural issues that arose due to the way that they manipulated the material. In addition to this reflection, the students observed the work of their peers and discussed their own artistic decisions and process.
Essential Understanding
Artists make observations and learn new techniques to create art.
Inquiry/Learning Target
How form, line, shape, and texture are used to create art using ceramic clay?
Key Concepts
Composition
Texture
Shape
Observation
Technique
Investigate/Discovery
Skill(s)
Identification and simplification of simple shapes within complex shapes and forms
Use of ceramic clay and clay art tools and technique
Idea generation and implementation
Reflection and analysis of one’s own artwork and the artwork of others
Art Focus
Students will focus on the properties of clay as an art medium and the use of a variety of clay art tools.
Literacy Focus
Students will discuss their own discoveries about the properties of clay and the subject and characteristics of their own artwork.
Documentation
In this week’s art lesson, students explored the use clay as an art medium. As our artists have already developed prior knowledge and a level of proficiency with the materials, they began their lesson with a short question and answer session and a demonstration. The discussion was conducted in order to stimulate prior knowledge and to help students begin the process of generating ideas for their own work.
Throughout the first and second demonstration, students were encouraged to think about and to share discoveries that they had made while working with clay. In addition, students engaged in a dialogue designed to help them generate ideas for their own work. At the completion of the first demonstration, the student artists returned to their workstations in order to create line drawings of their subject as the first stage of the process. Upon completion of their line drawings, the students participated in a gallery walk in order to view and make observations about the work of their peers.
Students were provided a image copy of their clay creatures they made last class and were prompted to crate a habitat for their creature building on their new knowledge of clay from last week. They began by using the drawing utensil to design their habitat.
As shown in the this image, students first planned their habitat and focused on drawing lighter lines to plan their ideas as they continued to work with the clay. This student's animal was butterflies and when asked about her drawing she said "butterflies like flowers and sun so it will want to be here" |
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In this video, the students discuses what he included in his clay line drawing of the habitat and why it would be a good fit for his creature he made, which was a mouse. |
This video also demonstrates what the student thought about when creating the habitat for their creature. As seen in the clip, she discusses where the creature lives, how the habitat fits her creature, and even gives 'her' a personality. |
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Next students decided ways to add textures and more details into their creature habitat using clay extrudes, clay tools, plastic cutlery, and found objects.
Students made good observations thinking about new tools to use. When seeing the ribbon tools on the right, one students said "you could press it on the side and push it down and it will make that shape in the clay"
Students made good observations thinking about new tools to use. When seeing the ribbon tools on the right, one students said "you could press it on the side and push it down and it will make that shape in the clay"
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In this video the student discusses what he added in his habitat. He shows how he used one of the tools and how it drew into the clay to make grass. |
In this video the student discusses how she used the wooden knife tool and what she discovered if she used it in different ways. |
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Students made some very unique and exciting habitats for their clay creatures in this weeks lesson. Stay tuned for next week when the Kindergartners will be adding color to their creations!