Lesson/Project Description
Continuing on last weeks lesson, students will now explore the material of clay by creating a nonfunctional piece. Students will come up with their very own planet and imagine what kind of creatures might live on that planet. After completing this ideation students will create a nonfunctional piece representing their create and/or their planet.
Essential Understandings
Inquiry/Learning Targets
Inspiration, Techniques, Transformation, Non-function
Skills
Ideation, Pinching, Rolling, Slipping, Scoring
Art Focus
Using clay building techniques and ideation to create a nonfunctional sculptural piece
Literary Focus
New Vocab: coil building, pinching, slab building, scoring, slipping, rolling, functional, nonfunctional
Literacy will be integrated with: discussion about clay and clay techniques, written discovery for the discovery board.
Documentation
After exploring the functional side of ceramic art, the students were given the chance to explore non-functional art. The idea that ceramic art serves a functional purpose is only one half of the ceramic world. Sometimes, art can be used to convey meaning instead of serving some sort of function. This was the focus of the art lesson this day.
Beginning with a presentation, students were able to explore examples of what non-functional ceramics looks like. This was shown through images of renaissance period statues by artists like Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, as well as busts of fmous leaders, and clay sculptures for movie characters made by Tim Burton, the man behind movies such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Corpse Bride," and "Frankenweenie."
The students were asked to create their own characters, which we called "creatures" since it was so close to Halloween, that come from a different planet. The students were first asked to come up with an idea for a planet and what it is like there. We asked them questions such as; "What color is your planet?" "What is it made out of?" "Is it big or small?" and "What is the weather like there?" Once the students had an idea for a planet, they listed the characteristics of this other world in their sketchbooks. These lists allowed students to look at elements of the planet that might affect the way a creature looks, lives, and evolves on that planet.
Continuing on last weeks lesson, students will now explore the material of clay by creating a nonfunctional piece. Students will come up with their very own planet and imagine what kind of creatures might live on that planet. After completing this ideation students will create a nonfunctional piece representing their create and/or their planet.
Essential Understandings
- Artists use their inspiration and art techniques to transform materials
"I can use my inspirations and art techniques to change materials" - Artists transform materials to explore functional and nonfunctional art
"I can use materials to explore functional and nonfunctional art"
Inquiry/Learning Targets
- After watching demos, SWBAT apply pinch, coil, and slab techniques to their clay project, with confidence (Blooms: Applying, Standard: Create, GLE: Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and expressive ideas of art and design, Art Learning: Materials/Techniques, Literacy)
- I can show understanding of art techniques by using them to build with my clay
- Using their sketchbooks, SWBAT design an idea for a creature they will build out of clay, in detail (Blooms: Creating, Standard: Comprehend, GLE: Artists make choices that communicate ideas in works of art, Art Learning: Conceptual/Ideation/Personal Grounding)
- I can use my sketchbook to design a creature
- Using clay, SWBAT explore nonfunctional sculptures by building their own creature, with detail (Blooms: Creating, Standard: Create, GLE: Use familiar symbols and basic media to identify and demonstrate characteristics and expressive ideas of art and design, Art Learning: Expressive Features and Characteristics of Art)
- I can explore nonfunctional art by building a creature sculpture
Inspiration, Techniques, Transformation, Non-function
Skills
Ideation, Pinching, Rolling, Slipping, Scoring
Art Focus
Using clay building techniques and ideation to create a nonfunctional sculptural piece
Literary Focus
New Vocab: coil building, pinching, slab building, scoring, slipping, rolling, functional, nonfunctional
Literacy will be integrated with: discussion about clay and clay techniques, written discovery for the discovery board.
Documentation
After exploring the functional side of ceramic art, the students were given the chance to explore non-functional art. The idea that ceramic art serves a functional purpose is only one half of the ceramic world. Sometimes, art can be used to convey meaning instead of serving some sort of function. This was the focus of the art lesson this day.
Beginning with a presentation, students were able to explore examples of what non-functional ceramics looks like. This was shown through images of renaissance period statues by artists like Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, as well as busts of fmous leaders, and clay sculptures for movie characters made by Tim Burton, the man behind movies such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Corpse Bride," and "Frankenweenie."
The students were asked to create their own characters, which we called "creatures" since it was so close to Halloween, that come from a different planet. The students were first asked to come up with an idea for a planet and what it is like there. We asked them questions such as; "What color is your planet?" "What is it made out of?" "Is it big or small?" and "What is the weather like there?" Once the students had an idea for a planet, they listed the characteristics of this other world in their sketchbooks. These lists allowed students to look at elements of the planet that might affect the way a creature looks, lives, and evolves on that planet.
Once each student finished their ideation, the began to build. Using clay, and techniques learned during the last class (which we recapped with the students), everybody began to build creatures based on their planets. "My creature is going have a drill for a hand so he can fight because he comes from a warrior planet where everyone fights," explained one student. "My planet is made out of lava and so my creatures are lava dragons that swim in the lava ocean," explained another. Each student was developing a narrative, or meaning, for their art through this art experience and was doing their best to bring that meaning through in their clay creatures.
Some of the students even built homes for their creatures to live in such as; a cave house for a wizard, a nest for a Cobra Dragon, and so on. |