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Pueblo Pottery

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students are introduced to the characteristics of pueblo pottery and create their own piece of pueblo inspired pottery. After a brief lecture into the history and methods creating pueblo pottery, students use provided materials to create...
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Mending Pottery

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners act as archaeologist and mend broken pottery to see what they can learn.
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Painting Pottery

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students summarize and illustrate the process of painting an ancient Greek vessel, identify the amphora as an example of the black figure style and order the steps and procedures necessary to produce an amphora in the black figure style.
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Medieval Art

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study Gothic architecture on the Internet and create a mug with a gargoyle figure on it.
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Measuring Pots

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students use an activity sheet to construct analogies about possible function of ancient or historic ceramics and compute circumference from a section of a circle as they study measuring pots.
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Personal Identity Bust

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a ceramic bust of themselves.
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Greek Columns

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars make Greek columns out of mid fire white clay.
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Marshland Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify animals in ecosystem depicted on 16th Century ceramic basin and classify them as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores based on physical characteristics and prior knowledge, determine which life forms in ecosystem are...
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Exploring Pottery of North Carolina

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the pottery traditions of North Carolina through a progression of investigation and hands on experience. State Standards are addressed during this two to three week lesson on regional pottery techniques.
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The Mound Builders

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine mound building Indian tribes. They identify the two groups of Mound-Building Indians and explore the reasons for building mounds. Students identify places where the mounds exist. They create a model of an Indian mound.
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Dancing Rainbows: A Pueblo Boy's Story

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read the book "Dancing Rainbows," and complete a variety of activities across the curriculum. In this Native Americans lesson plan, students create pottery, discuss Pueblo traditions, discuss the importance of rain, and learn...
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Houses, Beach Shacks and Cultural Habitats

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners create a unique habitat by applying the methods of hand building. They draw their idea in their sketchbook. They create the form with expressive variations. They create the decorations using glazes, underglass, stamps and...
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Shigaraki Pottery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars write position papers from the point of view of a Shigaraki art collector in this instructional activity on pottery techniques found in Japan between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.
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Investigation of Pot Sherds

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review their prior knowledge on the concept of pi. Using broken pieces of pottery, they calculate the circumference from a section of the circle. In teams, they compete against one another to get the most accurate...
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Creating Sacred and Ritual Masks Within the High School Pottery Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research sacred masks and what they were used for. They are to create their own sacred mask and present them to the class.
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Puebla Patterned Pots

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine and discuss the characteristics of tin glazed earthenware pottery of Colonial Mexico. They design and create their own Talavera-style plate by applying the concept of radial symmetry.
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Handbuilding With Joan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the three basic handbuilding techniques used in beginning pottery: pinch pot, coiling, and slab work. After a lecture/demo, students try their hands at making pottery using the three different techniques.
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Ceramic Tile Wall Murals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create multi-color lithographic posters, reinterpreting the technique of a famous artist or artistic style. They discuss art history, aesthetics, criticism, and personal expression. Students focus on the elements of design and...
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Nature Abstractions - Georgia O'Keeffe

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the work of Georgia O'Keeffe and forms of nature. Sketches are made of natural objects and then abstracted. Clay forms are then made using draped slab method and hand building techniques.
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Mi Casa es Tu Casa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make animated houses using slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They treat the surface of the house with a technique known as majolica.
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Recreating Chinese Bronze Vessels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are shown how to make Chinese Bronze Vessels using coil or slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They are given an overview of the history of Chinese Bronze Vessels and given examples. Students are shown photographs, and they take...
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Pablo Picasso - Slab Construction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a three or four-sided vessel incorporating abstracted faces on each side. Vessels should be irregular in shape. They demonstrate skills and craftsmanship in working with clay and explore hand-building methods of...
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Greek Vase Painting Project

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students create authentic Greek paintings on clay tiles using knowledge learned about Greek art and painting techniques. This lesson is highly adaptable and can be accomplished in less than a week if focus is altered and less time is...
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Marshland Ecosystem

For Teachers K - 12th
Students classify animals based on their physical characteristics and eating habits.  In this animal identification lesson plan, students investigate the life forms shown on a Parisian ceramic basin, and discover ecosystem the artist was...

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