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Arizona State University

A.r.t.s : Navajo Pottery: Beautiful Objects

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This informative website contains pages discussing the history of Navajo pottery. Provides photos and explanations of various pottery techniques. Teachers can use these lessons to show young scholars how to create and fire their own...
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Jh Pottery: Pottery Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains photos and instructions on how to make: pinch pots, coil pots, pressed coil pots, slab pots, handles, and how to use a pottery wheel. The directions are simple and easy to understand.
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Pottery Studio

For Students 9th - 10th
This site boasts 5,000 pages of information about pottery! You'll find extensive lists of potters and examples of their artwork. Thousands of photographic examples to use as references or inspiration!
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Ceramics

For Students 9th - 10th
World Ceramics surveys ceramic artwork produced in a dozen different regions of the world. Extensive notes and illustrations accompany each piece, providing complete facts related to where it came from, how it was used, and how it was...
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Teach Pottery

Teach Pottery: Ceramics and Pottery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Loaded with teaching resources for anyone wanting to explore clay with their students. Includes six teaching units for the ceramics studio.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Puebloan: Maria Martinez, Black on Black Ceramic Vessel

For Students 9th - 10th
Maria Martinez became one of the best-known Native potters of the twentieth century due to her excellence as a ceramist and her connections with a larger, predominantly non-Native audience. Read her ceramic techniques and view examples...
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Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Ceramics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of useful photos of various ceramics from around the world at this stie from Pics 4 Learning Inc. A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: China's Han Dynasty Artifacts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
See treasures from a Han dynasty tomb (206 BC to AD 24) exhibited at the Silicon Valley Art Museum. Delightful reproductions of ceramic and bronze vessels and figurines pepper the site. Informative notes discuss both the technology used...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Louis C. Tiffany

For Students 9th - 10th
Louis C. Tiffany created fabulous mosaics, stained-glass windows, Favrile glass, lamps, enamels, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, drawings and paintings. This site provides details on his life and work with wonderful images to explore.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Colors of Clay in Athenian Vases

For Students 9th - 10th
An examination of unique ceramics made by the ancient Greeks. Be sure to watch the video of how an ancient Athenian cup is made.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Maiolica: History, Function, and Production

For Students 9th - 10th
The presence of tin in a glaze makes the glaze less likely to run or blur when the painted ceramic piece is heated in a kiln. Artists took advantage of this quality and used tin glazes for making pottery with finely detailed, painted...
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Spode Exhibition Online | Spode Timeline 1733 1833

For Students 9th - 10th
History, business, and pottery detailed in this Spode exhibit.
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Ashmolean Museum: Medieval Europe Ceramic Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
Clicking on the time classifications of medieval Europe provides pictures of the types of mugs, jugs, pots, etc. that were used.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Ralph Bacerra

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Ralph Bacerra. Bacerra worked with a series of influences in creating his pottery and ceramics. The site, in addition to the...
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About Korea: Culture and the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Korea has an ancient culture. Find out about the paintings, dance, literature, and ceramics that have developed over the hundreds of years.
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wikiHow

Wikihow: How to Throw a Pot

For Students 9th - 10th
Easy to understand instructions on beginning a pot on the wheel. Follow links to learn more about the topic.
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Sur Les Traces De Bernard Palissy

For Students 9th - 10th
An entire issue of a museum magazine in French (Conseil des Musees Popitou Charentes) that discusses Palissy's work and includes many illustrations.
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Maria Martinez Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Maria Martinez and her amazing life accomplishments as a Native American potter. Includes fantastic pictures of both her and her work.
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Smithsonian Institution

Archives of American Art: Digging for Clay

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of letters, writings, photographs, interviews and other primary sources documenting American artists working in clay.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Maiolica Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the history, function, and production of maiolica with this seven-problem quiz.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Arts and Crafts

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia details how the term "arts and crafts" came into existence and lists a wealth of links to other encyclopedia articles on different types of arts and crafts. Links are provided for additional...
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Curated OER

National Museum of African Art:where Do I Come From?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out where each African pot was made. Watch the country light up on the map and read a little bit about how it was created.
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Curated OER

National Museum of African Art:where Do I Come From?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out where each African pot was made. Watch the country light up on the map and read a little bit about how it was created.
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Curated OER

National Museum of African Art:where Do I Come From?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out where each African pot was made. Watch the country light up on the map and read a little bit about how it was created.

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