Curriculum
I have created some lesson plans, please find these ideas below with available pdfs for download. I would love to hear what you think. You can email me using the website contact page.
Curriculum Unit:
Exploring Emotions through Clay Masks
This curriculum unit explores the many facets of emotions.
It introduces and delves deeper into how emotions have been expressed through the medium of masks throughout the ages and across the globe.
Students have the opportunity to choose which emotion(s) they will explore using clay to create their own mask.
My Teacher Examples:
Joy & Disgust
My Teacher Example
for the Skillbuilding Lesson:
Stormi the Cloud Monster
Focus Artworks:
Emotional States, 2018
Andy Singleton
Paper
Maske XVII, 2019
Jonathan Baldock
Ceramic
Presentations:
Curriculum Unit:
Spiralic Biodiversity
This curriculum unit travels through Land Art, through the woods for a lesson on the artistic perspective of space, all the while looking at Meg Webster's "Glass Spiral" for a project that brings that class together to look at humans and nature through paper sculpture techniques and aesthetic valuing.
Student Driven Project with Prompt:
Pulling Splinters From Your Heart
This slideshow prompts students with a theme and how to use thumbnail sketches to explore ideas. There are artist created examples included in the slideshow to get the creative juices flowing.
