Trinket dish – heart shaped

Meet The Teacher: Elysa Spetgang

After 11+ years creating as a ceramic artist Elysa has merged her love of clay with teaching! Currently teaching her students anything from sgraffito to simple hand building techniques so that ceramics is accessible and available to all her students!

Project Description

Explore one of the easy lessons of functional designs with this heart shaped trinket dish!

Materials

  • Speckled clay
  • Pin tool
  • Sponge
  • Cookie cutter/ heart template
  • Any glaze colour
  • Slab roller/ rolling pin
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Grade Level

High School

Difficulty

Easy

Student Hands-On Time

45 mins

Teacher Prep Time

10 mins

Project Cost / Cost Per Student

5

National Core Arts Standards - Visual Arts

  • Creating - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas.
  • Creating - Organize and develop artistic work.
  • Creating - Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.
  • Presenting - Select, analyze, and interpret works for presentation.
  • Presenting - Develop skills for artistic presentation and exhibition.
  • Responding - Perceive and analyze artistic work.
  • Responding - Interpret intent and meaning in artwork.
  • Responding - Evaluate and critique based on aesthetic and technical qualities.
  • Connecting - Relate artistic ideas to historical, cultural, and social contexts.
  • Connecting - Connect personal experiences with artmaking and meaning.

21st Century Skills

  • Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
  • Creativity & Innovation
  • Communication
  • Flexibility & Adaptability
  • Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
  • Productivity & Accountability
  • Leadership & Responsibility

STEAM Education

  • Engineering
  • Arts

Differentiations and Accommodations

Differentiation

IEP

Accommodation

May use assistance with pin tool accuracy

Learning Objectives: Knowledge

The students will learn how to blend clay seams together which will be beneficial to learn for future projects (mug making, and baking dishes)

Learning Objectives: Skills

Accuracy with using various clay tools when cutting out the desired shapes for the trinket dish

Learning Objectives: Attitudes/Values

A big learning objective of this project is patience. When working with clay one should be calm but focused and this is the perfect item to practice these values on.

Formative Assessment

Evaluate how the tools may be used and if the students are tentatively aware of air bubbles and quality of their work

Summative Assessment

Final evaluation can be used at the end of the lesson to see if they were able to complete making a functional piece of work

Reflection and Discussion

Discuss about glaze colour and surface composition may be used to have meaningful group conversation

Lesson Activities

Prep

Select all the needed tools and materials for the project

Instructions

Provide instructions and tips for a successful project, show how to roll a slab

Hands on learning

Make sure to give tips as the students are learning how to blend the clay together after attaching edges to the desired shapes of their trinket dishes

Finishing Details

Add any finishing details (sgraffito, surface designs) and make sure edges are smooth - using a sponge!

Reflection

Take some time to reflect on what the students have made, taking a positive approach to each item

Cleanup

Cleanup surfaces and work stations

Final discussion

Use this time to discuss of anything that they may want to change or consider for their next projects!

Additional Documents

Document 1

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