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4
Grade Ceramics Unit
Vanessa Telischak
MSET Ramapo
Target Audience
 4th Grade Art Students
 About 22 students per class
 (3) Fourth Grade classes
 40 minute art classes: Once a week
NJCCC Standards
 1.1.5.D.1
 1.2.5.A.1
 1.2.5.A.2
 1.3.5.D.1
 1.3.5.D.2
 1.4.5.B.4
 1.4.5.B.5
Goals and Objectives
Students will be able to:
• Identify clay as a 3-dimensional form of art
• Create a pinch pot that is enhanced by the use
of the elements of art
• Build a container with clay, using the coil handbuilding technique
• Describe several ways various cultures make
use of clay pots
• Determine if functional pottery can be
considered art
Howard Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligences
 Multiple Intelligences
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Visual-Spatial
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Logical-Mathematical
Verbal-Linguistic
Interpersonal
Gregorc Learning Styles
 Concrete Sequential
 Step by step directions
 Gathering information from
website onto worksheet
 Concrete Random
 Independent work/projects
 Trial and Error using the
clay medium
 Hands on experience
 Abstract Sequential
 Answer worksheet
questions
 Youtube videos as a
lecture
 Abstract Random
 Freedom to create
original clay pots
 Can assist
classmates/ask for
assistance
Brainy Bits
 Frontal lobe
 Problem solving
 Higher order thinking
 Occipital lobe
 Visual processing
 Parietal lobe
 Spatial orientation
Unit Assignments
 Complete Clay worksheet
 Watch Pinch Pot video
 Make Pinch Pot
 Watch Coil Pot video
 Make coil pot
Videos
 Navigate to Clay Worksheet and ‘How to’ clay videos
 http://youtu.be/x1Ii26oQFmk?list=PLe0Awxzt7C5nwfZ01_ixR31eZv6OJfd3
 How to Make a Pinch Pot Youtube Video
 http://youtu.be/4xy1YJnNXM0?list=PLe0Awxzt7C5nwfZ01_ixR31eZv6OJfd3
 How to Make a Coil Pot Video
 http://youtu.be/1u4VGEYSGqE?list=PLe0Awxzt7C5nwfZ01_ixR31eZv6OJfd3
Assessment: Rubric
References
 Core Curriulum Content Standards (2010). Retrieved from
http://www.state.nj.us.education/cccs/
 Google Images
 Kinderart. http://www.kinderart.com/sculpture/clay.shtml
 Mills, D.W. (2002). Applying What We Know: Student Learning
Styles. Retrieved from
http://csrnet.org/csrnet.org/csrnet/articles/student-learningstyles.html/.
 Sousa, D. A. (2011). How the Brain Learns (4th ed.). Thousand
Oaks, California: Corwin.
 Wilson, L. O. (2005). Newer Ways of Learning: 7 multiple
Intelligences Defined. Retrieved from http://www4.uwsp.edu/