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| These lesson plans began as journal notes recorded at the end of the day by Marissa Kunz, a graduate intern from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was assisting Josefa Vaughan, teaching artist, employed by the Hills Project which sponsors “Fine Arts Fridays” at Starr King Elementary School in San Francisco. |
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Clays | Collage | Construction | Drawing | Early Animation | Painting |  |
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Lesson: Intro to Clay
Grade level: Pre-K Objectives:
- To introduce students to clay
- To learn how to make basic shapes such as balls and snakes
- To learn how to cut clay with a string
Procedure: Josefa showed the children how to make the shapes and cut clay. For the Pre-K class all students collaborated on building a log cabin, each contributing many logs. The first grade class made a variety of shapes based on their ideas after making a perfect ball by rolling the clay in circles between the palms of both hands.
Lesson: clay (white, bake-able)
Grade level: Pre-K, 1 and Special Education Objectives:
- To familiarize students with clay: its feel, its possibilities, etc.
- To make beads/medallions that will be made into a group mobile
- Introduce the words "metaphor" and "cliché" by proposing that students invent their own heart shape
- To design a heart shape (for Valentine's Day) that no one has ever seen before
Materials:
- Clay
- 1/3 length straws to poke holes into the clay
- paper
- pencil
Procedure: Explain how the heart does not really look like our "cliché" depiction of it. Ask the students to design their own heart shape that is unlike any other heart shape. Then explain how the clay will be hardened, painted and hung as a mobile. Do a demonstration on how to poke a hole in a bead. Show some examples of hardened and painted clay. Later as students work, show them how a drawing can be transferred on to the white clay when it is pressed into a pencil drawing. Lastly collect and label each piece, readying it for baking. Save all drawings for display.
Lesson: Clay/shadow drawing
Grade level: 1 Objectives:
- To make balls with "Sculpy"
- To draw spheres and shadows that they cast in order to create 3D illusion
Materials:
Procedure: Explain that the clay will be baked and painted and students will make a small medallion with a hole in it. (They will later be made into a mobile). Next, everybody had to make four balls by first making one big ball, dividing it in half, then making two smaller balls and then dividing those in half. They were to end up with four smaller balls. Next, each student placed the four balls on the table and drew them with their shadows. They were instructed step-by-step, verbally and with visual demonstrations.
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