Overview and Background: Unit: Ceramics & Pottery

Learning activities need development, Performance task does not assess Understandings, Are all standards assessed? 

Name: Shawny Montgomery

Cheney High : Grades 9-12

Title:	Ceramics and Pottery
Topics:	Throwing and Hand-building Clay Projects
Time Frame:	August-May
Start Date:	August

Other Designers:

Summary:
These classes will teach students a variety of throwing and hand-building techniques to be used to create a variety of clay projects.

Print Materials Needed:

Ceramics Monthly

Clay Times

Ceramics: A Potters Handbook, Glen C. Nelson

Intro to Ceramics, Graham Flight

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

www.ceramicsmonthly.com

www.claytimes.com

www.evansceramics.com

Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

Standard:	National
Title:	Art
Standard(s):	1.Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques and Processes. 2. Using knowledge of structures and functions. 3. Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matters.

Understandings:

Clay objects hold the history of civilizations.

The majority of objects we use everyday are made up of some type of clay.

Essential Questions:

Why have clay pots been used in nearly every civilization?

How do we use clay in the 21st Century?

Knowledge and Skills:

K

Ceramic Process-Slip, plastic, leather hard, green-ware, bisque, glaze-ware. Hand-building techniques: pinch pot, coil, slab, draped slab, lump mold, slump mold, banding wheel. Wheel throwing techniques: cylinder, bowl, lidded jars, mug, tea pot,

S

Use knowledge of ceramic process and different hand-building/ wheel throwing techniques to create a variety of different ceramic objects.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will demonstrate how to throw a cylinder, bowl, mug, tea pot, lidded jar.

Demonstrate how to make a pinch pot, coil pot, banding wheel pot, draped slab, slab box.

Student Directions:

You will be introduced through out the up coming year to a variety of wheel thrown and hand building techniques that will enable you to create a wide variety of decorative and functional ware.

Rubric:

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Quiz over the ceramic process.

Performance Assessments demonstrating knowledge and ability to create: Thrown vessels and hand-built objects.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

Ceramic posters, wheel throwing demonstration, examples of students and teachers work. Ceramic poster visuals.

Teacher will go over the ceramic process and pass around visuals demonstrating each stage.

Wheel throwing demonstration, trimming, footing, pulling spouts, and handles, lids, jars, rims, knobs.

Hand-building demonstrations: coils, banding wheel, slump molds, pinch pots, slab boxes, etc.