Roy Odom on sat 7 jan 12
I am fortunate enough to teach 3D art at a charter school in Texas
focusing on clay (since that is my professional medium) and am looking
for some additional resources for project ideas or lesson plans to add
to my "bag of tricks". Anyone willing to share? These are 8th and 9th
graders. I'm bringing some of their work to NCECA this year and look
forward to seeing some of the wonderful examples I know will be there.
Roy Odom
Soulflame Pottery
Fort Worth, TX
website:www.soulflamepottery.com
Victoria E. Hamilton on sat 7 jan 12
Roy -
I'm quite sure John Post will reply to your post. He puts all his projects
and lesson plans on his website - they are wonderful. I cannot remember th=
e
age range of his students. Lots of them are quite young but he may work
with older kids as well.
Good luck.
Vicki Hamilton
Millennia Antica Pottery
Seattle
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Roy Odom
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 8:27 AM
To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: lesson plans
I am fortunate enough to teach 3D art at a charter school in Texas focusing
on clay (since that is my professional medium) and am looking for some
additional resources for project ideas or lesson plans to add to my "bag of
tricks". Anyone willing to share? These are 8th and 9th graders. I'm
bringing some of their work to NCECA this year and look forward to seeing
some of the wonderful examples I know will be there.
Roy Odom
Soulflame Pottery
Fort Worth, TX
website:www.soulflamepottery.com
L TURNER on sat 7 jan 12
Take a look on the NCECA website. In the past there have been lesson
plans available for downloading under the resoureces tab.
www.NCECA.net
LT The Woodlands
Rogier Donker on sun 8 jan 12
Ray!
You might want to look at the little gnomes on the pottery
page of my web site.Check out the large Disciples while there! On the
order page you can order my book that has the gnome project plus a few
more in it.
Rogier
See us on the web at http://www.donkerstudio.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Roy Odom
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 8:27 AM
To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: lesson plans
I am fortunate enough to teach 3D art at a charter school in Texas
focusing
on clay (since that is my professional medium) and am looking for some
additional resources for project ideas or lesson plans to add to my
"bag of
tricks". Anyone willing to share? These are 8th and 9th graders. I'm
bringing some of their work to NCECA this year and look forward to
seeing
some of the wonderful examples I know will be there.
Roy Odom
Soulflame Pottery
Fort Worth, TX
website:www.soulflamepottery.com
John Post on sun 8 jan 12
Hi Roy,
Below are a few links to ideas I have taught to middle school and
junior high school kids in the past. I teach these same lessons to
kids in 6th grade, but since they only come to art once a week, the
results are a bit different than when you get to see the kids every day.
http://www.johnpost.us/Teaching%20Links/Clay%20Lessons/clay-mummies/clay-mu=
mmy.html
http://www.johnpost.us/Teaching%20Links/Clay%20Lessons/robot-tiles/robot-ti=
les.html
http://www.johnpost.us/Teaching%20Links/Clay%20Lessons/african-masks/clay-m=
asks.html
http://www.johnpost.us/Teaching%20Links/Clay%20Lessons/busts/clay-busts.htm=
l
http://www.johnpost.us/Teaching%20Links/Clay%20Lessons/dinosaurs/clay-dinos=
aurs.html
In thinking about lessons, I find it best to have a direction I am
going. One year for me it was all about ancient cultures, another
year it was about the world's 10 most famous art works, one year it
was about art from different continents. This year I am working on
teaching kids about realism, abstraction, and non-objective art as the
big idea, but of course concepts about color, form, texture, balance
etc. all work their way into our conversations.
With little kids I try to make most of the work about their world, the
real world of going outside and drawing with rocks on the sidewalk,
picking up stones to see what bugs are underneath, making sculptures
of animals. Whenever kids in elementary school make animal
sculptures, they can't wait to make a baby to go with it. Elementary
kids love subject matter and are not very much into non-objective
compositions.
With older kids in junior high and high school, I would often focus
the lessons on the kids themselves. Kids at that age are very
egocentric and so making time capsule mummies with writings about
their experiences sealed inside of them is something they are drawn
to. They also are drawn to realism, they want to learn skills to make
their art look better. If they make self portraits in clay, I also
have them draw or paint a self portrait. They want to learn about
proportions and shading at that age. Working back and forth between 2-
D art and 3-D art helps them to develop an understanding of how those
two different processes relate to one another.
There are great visual resources available without having to even go
to a library. Do a google image search on any topic you can think of
and let your students be inspired the images you show them (I have a
TV in my class hooked up to a computer.) I set all of my slideshows
to loop so that kids can watch them as they work. It is amazing what
they pick up on as inspiration for their own work. Include funny
images from google in the slideshow too, it keeps the kids laughing.
This week I was teaching kids how to make clay pigs. They loved this
one that was made from a sphere, so they started to use that as their
reference and my whole idea for the lesson changed. Don't be afraid
to follow their lead. I always tell kids what the overall goal of a
lesson is and then tell them that they should bring their personality
to the assignment.
Pinterest is a big online bulletin board that is just getting off the
ground. If you search art or art lessons on that site it may give you
some visual ideas to jump start your creative thinking.
http://pinterest.com/
John Post
Sterling Heights, Michigan
http://www.johnpost.us
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