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CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING
VAKCU.1 Identifies artists and offers ideas about what art is and who artists are.
PRODUCTION
VAKAR.1 Discusses his or her own artwork and the artwork of others
a. Shows an interest in art.
c. Uses art terms with emphasis on the elements of art: space, line,
shape, form, color, value, texture.
CONNECTIONS
VAKC.1 Applies information from other disciplines to enhance the understanding and
production of artworks.
VAKC.2 Develops life skills through the study and production of art.
Assessments:
Diagnostic: Formative: Summative:
Essential Question Ticket Out The Door Project Based: Artwork
Major Unit concepts and vocabulary:
Clay ceramics, Texture real, Form 4. 5.
kiln, texture, slab implied, rough,
smooth,
Step 1: Teacher and students talk about what they will learn and do
(Communication of Learning Intentions)
Review the Essential Question & Standards:
What is clay?
What is form?
What is texture?
Step 2: How will you know when they have gotten it? (Communication of Success
Criteria)
Students will have a completed slab fossil with 2-3 different real textures that they
have created using a stamping into slab technique.
Students will have created an implied texture using paint/glaze that will age the
fossil.
Week 2
Teacher will review facts from the week before about fossils, clay, and clay
vocabulary.
Teacher will demonstrate making a clay fossil.
Week 3
Teacher will review facts from the week before about fossils, clay, and clay
vocabulary.
Teacher will demonstrate how to create an implied texture using paint/glaze.
Week 1
Students will use clay to practice rolling a ball/sphere and to create whatever they
want by putting shapes together to create new shapes. Exploring the clay will
do the work
students to
Have students go home and try to identify examples of form that they use in their
y or sh their learning
everyday lives.