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Clay Exploration

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create clay sculptures. For this sculpting lesson, students work in various stations to familiarize themselves with clay and use tools to make their own art piece.
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Playing In The Dirt - Discovering Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss some the different types of soil in Oklahoma. They identify the soil types and explore the characteristics of each type of soil. In groups, students perform hands-on activities such as taking soil samples, classifying...
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Harding Black: Taking It To Another Level

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students complete a variety of activities related to the pottery of Harding Black and the uses of clay in San Antonio, Texas. They watch a video about the life of Harding Black, conduct a clay percolation experiment, compare and...
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I Make Clay Pots

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read a book entitled, "I Make Clay Plots." After observing the cover, students predict what they believe will happen in the story. They review sight words and discuss methods of decoding unfamiliar words. Students answer...
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Working with Clay

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to work with clay after examine the book "Being Friendly to Trees." They make a clay square which they decorate with leaves that they find while taking a nature walk. They glaze their artwork and then...
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Creating a Bas-Relief Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a small bas-relief sculpture of an animal in clay. They roll out a background, and build up the clay on the back ground to represent themselves and an animal. Pieces are dried and fired, then combined with others to...
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Common Denominators between Primitive Art, Fine Art, Folk Art, Children's Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view and create art in several styles. They view African Masks, Picasso's portraits and self-portraits. They compare the two, then create a self portrait. In the second lesson, they view landscape paintings by folk artists....
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Clay for Fun: An Introduction to Clay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students experiment with clay to create sculptures. They research various animals and work with parts of animal names to create their own imaginary animal sculptures using clay.
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Clay Animal Sculptures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Visual Arts: Clay Pots

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars plan and create spiral-built pots. Once they designs are complete and shaped, they are fired, painted and wrapped. Students decorate paper and wrap pots to present as gifts for various holidays.
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Soil Structure

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine how different soils are made up of varying proportions of clay, silt, and sand. They compare soil samples, conduct Internet research, and create a model to demonstrate the relative sizes of grains of clay, sand, and...
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Creative Clay Houses

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students demonstrate knowledge of working with clay and design and make creative houses and other buildings out of clay.
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Clay Planets

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students create scale models of the planets out of clay and compare them to the real planets.
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Flood!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine different types of soil have different capacities for retaining rainwater. In this science lesson, students determine that if the soil in an area will not hold enough rainwater there may be a flood. Students experiment...
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Creating a Japanese Garden Lantern in Crea-Stone

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners create a Japanese Garden Lantern. In this step-by-step ceramics lesson, students follow simple how-to directions to mold and create a Japanese Garden Lantern out of Crea-Stone.
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Clay Animations

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Learners create short animated films using clay figures, digital video cameras, and the computer program iMovie. In this lesson, students work cooperatively in small groups to maximize success.
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Manage Soil

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify and classify soil ypes according to data on the soil triangle. Given examples, students identify soil conservation practices, using criterion assessment instrument. When giving a case situation involving soil...
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Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students create a "Noh"-style mask, based on Japanese Noh theatre masks. They experiment with different colors of modeling clay and explore ways to show facial character.
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Let's Create a Sculpture!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine pictures to unearth the objects that were connected together to make the sculptures. Information about the artists and the history of the pieces created are discussed.
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Clay Gargoyles

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students observe Gargoyles and listen to an explanation of their place in art history. They create gargoyles with clay and paint with stone finish.
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Funny Putty

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Learners study that colloids are mixtures which display the properties of more than one of these states.