Attention Getter/Anticipatory Set (3 min): With their shoulder buddy or table group, students will look at an item from Andy Warhol’s time capsules and discuss the following questions. What does this object say about the owner? Why do you think this object was important to the owner?
Introduction (12 min): The teacher will show a PowerPoint introducing the time capsule project. This slideshow will include information about Andy Warhol’s time capsules and discuss how time capsules play a role in helping to pass on information about present time to future generations. The class will examine different items that were kept in his time capsules and discuss their significance. During this time, we will also discuss how different artifacts and artworks can also document history and culture. The teacher will explain that the students are making an artistic container with images representing themselves on the sides that will hold and protect items that they consider valuable and important right now. The last slides of the PowerPoint show in process photos of the project depicting the steps they will be taking to make their artwork as well as introducing important vocabulary terms.
Review Plan Criteria (10 min): As a class, the students will review the criteria on the backside of the Plan/Assessment that they will be graded on. Each student will read a row and the teacher will clarify as necessary.
Teacher Demonstration (5 min): Using the dry erase board, the teacher will show how to select a question from the worksheet and draw symbols for the walls of the time capsule.
Student Work Time (15 min):
a. On the Time Capsule Questionnaire, the students will answer all of the questions.
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Then they will select three and transfer the questions and answers to their plan worksheet.
Clean Up (5 min): The students will place the Plan/Assessment sheets in their hour cabinet or place them in their sketchbooks. If they are not finished filling out their plan sheet, students will take it for homework. Students will sketch image ideas for the relief images for the walls of their time capsule.
Day 2 - Making Clay Slabs for Time Capsule Walls
Attention Getter/Anticipatory Set (5 min): As a table, the students will need to quickly match up the clay terms with the correct definitions and they must also put the stages of clay in the correct order. This information has been taught for a prior cermaic lesson and is serving as a review before students start working with clay again.
Teacher Demonstration (5 min): The teacher will show students how to use the flat of their hand, flipping, tapping the edges to make a slab. The teacher will review the criteria that all slabs must be 5”x4”, created by tracing a template, and needs to be an even uniform ½” thickness.
Student Work Time (25 min): Each student will create 3 slabs of even thickness.
Clean Up (10 min): Students will clean up the last ten minutes of every “wet” clay class.
Day 3 & 4 - Decorating the sides of the Time Capsules
Attention Getter/Anticipatory Set: Review the vocabulary term score and slip.
Teacher Demonstrations: The teacher will show students how to create very thin slabs to be used for their raised relief images. At this time, the students will also learn how to draw into the clay to add details and how to score and slip the images onto their walls 1” from the top.
Student Work Time: Each student will create their images and attach them to their slabs using score and slip techniques or etch details into the surface of the clay.
Day 5, 6, & 7 - Constructing the Time Capsule
Teacher Demonstration: The teacher will demonstrate how to make the lid and base for their time capsule from slabs of clay and how to attach walls to the base, and shape the corners.
Student Work Time: Each student will attach the walls to a base slab, shape the corners of the container, cut the base, trace on a slab to make a lid, attach the lid, and cut off the lid. They will also cut one of their initials out of a thick slab for the handle of their time capsule.
Once all clay projects are completely assembled and have dried, they will be fired in the kiln while the class works on the 2-dimensional project. After this project is completed then Day 8 will occur.
Day 8, 9, 10 - Painting of Time Capsules with Watercolor
Anticipatory Set (2 min): Review the vocabulary terms bisqueware and glazeware. Talk about glaze and how there are alternative methods for finishing clay pieces like watercolor and mod podge.
Teacher Demonstration: At the start of class, the group will review the painting criteria from the plan/assessment sheet. The teacher will review color mixing with watercolors. The teacher will also show students how wet the surface of their time capsule and apply different values by adding layers of paint or by varying the amount of water to paint ratio.
Student Work Time: Students will paint time capsule with watercolor. Once finished, students will seal time capsule with Mod Podge and complete their self assessment before turning their project in. The last five minutes of class each day will be used for clean up time.
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Attention Getter/Anticipatory Set (5 min): As a table, the students will need to quickly match up the clay terms with the correct definitions and they must also put the stages of clay in the correct order. This information has been taught for a prior cermaic lesson and is serving as a review before students start working with clay again.
