Lesson Plan: Ceramic Sandwiches
Subject: Ceramics (beginning - advanced)
Grade: 9-12
Description:
Students work in groups to create a sandwich of an assigned culture. Groups will need to research their sandwich and find photos of which they can accurately create from. Sandwiches will be made of individual parts and then assembled together after glazing. Groups will need to work together to plan, build, glaze and present their sandwich, plate and sides.
Student work:
Grade: 9-12
Description:
Students work in groups to create a sandwich of an assigned culture. Groups will need to research their sandwich and find photos of which they can accurately create from. Sandwiches will be made of individual parts and then assembled together after glazing. Groups will need to work together to plan, build, glaze and present their sandwich, plate and sides.
Student work:
California State Standards for Visual and Performing Arts:
Creative Expression:
2.1: Solve a visual arts problem that involves the effective use of the elements of art and the principles of design.
Historical and Cultural Context:
3.3 Identify and describe trends in the visual arts and discuss how the issues of time, place, and cultural influence are reflected in selected works of art
Connections, Relationships, Applications:
5.2: Create a work of art that communicates a cross-cultural or universal theme taken from literature or history.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
- Understand how food and art relate throughout art history.
- Build problem solving skills through recreating food items from photographs into clay with realistic details.
- Build collaborative skills through working with group of 4 - 5 students.
- Apply hand building methods to build a realistic sandwich.
- Understand how to add texture to clay pieces.
- Apply appropriate use of low-fire glazes (layers, clear glaze, mixing colors, using brushes, sponges, slip-trail bottles).
- Make aesthetic choices for “plating” sandwich and sides on decorated plate.
- Present lunch plates to class, teaching class about sandwich and culture.
Assessment:
Formative -
Entrance Slip asking students about how food and art relate and class discussion following this activity.
Researching worksheet for ingredients and information about sandwich.
Paper model of sandwich (to size, colors, textures, amount)
Plate design worksheet with proposal of aesthetic choices relating to culture and sandwich.
Checking in with students individually throughout work time.
Summative -
Presentation of lunch plate after glaze firing.
Final grading with rubric.
Vocabulary:
Handbuilding, low-fire, slab, paper armature, glaze, kiln, clay
Materials:
Entrance slip, PowerPoint on food and art and sandwiches of the world, printout of sandwiches, research worksheet, paper model supplies (paper, scissors, colored pencils), technology for researching sandwiches, low fire clay, slab rollers, boards, plastic wrap, rolling pins, texture objects, ceramics tools, low fire glazes, containers for mixing, paint brushes, slip-trail bottles.
Instructional Strategies:
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Student Activities:
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Aesthetic Exploration:
Students will make aesthetic choices throughout the entire process, beginning with planning their sandwich ingredients and how they will create them proportionately and with accurate texture. Glazing choices will be aesthetic especially between the food and the plate. The final aesthetic decision be with how groups decide to display their sandwich and sides on the plate.
Closure:
Presentations of lunch plates to class. Groups will stand up in front of class with sandwich. Emphasis will be put on the idea that they need to “sell” the audience their sandwich, by speaking highly about it so that the audience would want to eat it. This is a lesson about how presentation of artwork is important to persuading people to like it.
Points students will cover in presentation are:
- Name of sandwich and country of origin
- Ingredients
- Fun fact about sandwich
- How plate relates to sandwich or country of origin.
Students will make aesthetic choices throughout the entire process, beginning with planning their sandwich ingredients and how they will create them proportionately and with accurate texture. Glazing choices will be aesthetic especially between the food and the plate. The final aesthetic decision be with how groups decide to display their sandwich and sides on the plate.
Closure:
Presentations of lunch plates to class. Groups will stand up in front of class with sandwich. Emphasis will be put on the idea that they need to “sell” the audience their sandwich, by speaking highly about it so that the audience would want to eat it. This is a lesson about how presentation of artwork is important to persuading people to like it.
Points students will cover in presentation are:
- Name of sandwich and country of origin
- Ingredients
- Fun fact about sandwich
- How plate relates to sandwich or country of origin.