When planning for this year, I did some reflecting on what was introduced in the Ceramics 1. I decided to focus more on hand-building than throwing. Hand-Building gives students the opportunity to experience how clay responds to our artistic requests as well as an understanding of the creative possibilities the media holds. I also wanted to give students a chance to explore more variety in surface textures in clay.
Art is combined with other subject areas to create engaging and all-encompassing lessons. STEAM, arts integration, and project-based learning take the forefront as students discover the creative possibilities of combining sgraffito and clay, adapt their favorite comic book covers into original works of art, use textural adjectives to create ceramic sculptures, and more.
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