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Lesson Plans
These lessons have been created in the interest of making learning meaningful and engaging for all students. They have been written by me and for the purpose of my current and future classroom.
Students begin by writing about one of their greatest fears in their journal. The project will be based on this idea of fear and overcoming it. I am a Harry Potter fanatic and many students are as well, so I relate this lesson to boggarts. A boggart is a creature that can change it's shape based on your fears, and you can defeat the boggart with laughter. Each student will make a linoleum print representing their fear, and then transform this into something that is ridiculous and lighthearted with collage techniques.
First the class will warm up with a quick portrait drawing. Then students will collaborate to measure and understand the proportions of their faces. Students will understand that there is math involved in the aesthetics of drawing a face. There are eight steps into building the canon, and students draw those steps and make a complete self-portrait.
Students will be introduced to slab mugs. We will repeat knowledge about patterns to create decoration on the mugs. We will first plan the decoration and then hand-build the mugs. Students will use both additive and subtractive techniques to create the patterns on their mugs.
Painting a landscape can be intimidating. In this lesson, we break it down into steps to increase student understanding. After modeling how to paint, students will sketch and decide what type of landscape they want to create. Is it a desert scene? Have you always wanted to travel to Hawai'i? Are you a Bob Ross fan- let's paint some pretty little clouds! Students enjoy this lesson as it they find success in a simple, but important painting techniques.
Students will assemble a useful ceramic piece using two pinch pots to create a hollow sphere. After researching a ceramic artist of their choice, students will transform their sphere into a creature: imaginative or real. This creature is to somehow represent the student.
This is a lesson that allows students to explore materials. The project begins with an introduction to color theory and color schemes. From there, students imagine that they are discovering a new planet. What flora and fauna live there? Students become scientific artists and document their discoveries on a cardboard collage.
Vander Wilt
