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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the history of shoes and shoes from various cultures. They create a shoe using slab and coil techniques. They become familiar with basic additive and subtractive sculpting methods while adding imaginative features to their shoe. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze / deconstruct elements of design used in Wassily Kandinsky's paintings in order to synthesize the elements into a three-dimensional form. Works may be functional or non-functional. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a ceramic bust of themselves. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students explore some of the components of sculpture through a variety of artists and their artwork. The six lessons of this unit utilize the sculptures experienced when students were studying American history and the Native Americans. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students explore the work of paleontologists and the life of dinosaurs and create a sculpture of the bones of a Stegosaurus. The sculpture was then buried and used by other classes for a dig. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study the role gargoyle and chimeras have played in the architectural history of various cultures. They examine what gargoyles reflect about a culture. Students using a design process, create a ceramic gargoyle sculpture that expresses a mood of feeling and evaluate their product based on established criteria. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students create their own clay sculpture with imaginary or realistic animal features. After drawing at least three sketches, they complete an animal sculpture brainstorming activity. They identify functions of pre-Columbian animal sculptures and reasons why the animals were depicted. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are introduced to ceramics. They are taught the terms 'ceramics', 'texture' and 'sculpture.' Students use acrylic paints. They create a clay sculpture. Students are shown examples of ceramic artwork. They discuss the word sculpture. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 10th
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Students compare the characteristics of a fired porcelain sculpture to the clay used to create it. They discuss the physical and chemical changes that occur in the clay as it is heated and then create their own clay sculpture. This lesson includes modifications for several grade levels. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students create low-fire ceramic relief sculptures of dinosaur bones. They incorporate art history, aesthetics, and criticism with hands on activity. Students work together to draw an enlarged skeleton on butcher paper. The Stegosaurus is drawn on a 6 foot by 9 foot paper. Full Review »
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