MONDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Snow Day!

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Objectives

• Understand the properties of clay.
• Continue to experiment with clay techniques and practice scoring, slipping and modeling.

Essential Question

• How can we be successful sculptors?
  • Texture
  • Looking at whole sculpture
  • Craftsmanship

Focusing Task (5 min)

• What’s-up Warm-up:  Tell me about the hardest part of the snowstorm for you.

Guided Practice (10 min)

• Teacher will review the objectives for the project.
• Teacher will review the clean up procedure.
• Teacher will review scoring and slipping.

Learning Activity (25 min)

• Students will get supplies.
• Teacher will continue demonstrating some basic sculpting techniques. 
• Students will follow along, experiment and practice sculpting a face.
  • Students will sculpt the nose, mouth and eyebrows.

Closure (3 min)

• Students will finish the warm up and put their note in the box when they leave.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Today we began sculpting our toys.

Objectives

• Understand the properties of clay.
• Continue to experiment with clay techniques and practice scoring, slipping and modeling.

Essential Question

• How can we be successful sculptors?
  • Texture
  • Looking at whole sculpture
  • Craftsmanship

Focusing Task (5 min)

• Watch a video on face sculpting:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0vdP043jQ

Guided Practice (5 min)

• Teacher will review the objectives for the project.
• Students will have to show and “pitch” their idea to the teacher before they begin working on their toy.

Learning Activity (30 min)

• Students will get supplies.
• Students will experiment and begin sculpting their character’s head and body.

Closure (3 min)

• Students will do a quick gallery walk to see the various sculptures.