Lander University Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher Candidate: Daniel Sorrow

Lesson #
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Subject/Grade: 5th grade art
Date and Time of Lesson:
Learning Objective: Students will create a ceramic piece based off of zoo animals.
Lesson title: Zoo pinch pots
Alignment with Standards:

EEDA Standard(s):
9-12- Demonstrate an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests
and motivations

National Standard(s):
Content standard 1: using and applying media, techniques and
processes
SC Curriculum Standard(s):
Standard 1: Students will demonstrate a competence in the use of
ideas, materials, techniques and processes in the creation of works of
visual art.
o SC Academic Indicators:
VA4&5.1- Students will use materials in a safe and responsible manner
to create art

Developmental Appropriateness or Cross-curricular connections: Students will

have prior knowledge on how to handle materials, and they will create a work based off
of previous knowledge on what certain animals look like.
Assessment(s) of the Objectives:
Lesson Objective(s)
1. Practice with
modeling clay
2. Create a finished
product

Assessment(s) of the
Objective(s)
This will help teach
students how to handle
new materials and
practice a final work
Students will be
assessed by the quality
of their work based on
what they previously
designed with modeling
clay

Use of Formative
Assessment
This lesson give a
general idea on how
the students are
able to handle
making threedimensional art, and
how to create 3D
forms.

Accommodations: Students will be accommodated as see fit. Alternative work will be issued
if a student is unable to correctly follow instruction for any reason.

Materials: modeling clay, ceramic clay, string or fishing line, beads, water-based
paint, kiln (teacher use only), straws

Procedures: Students will first view an example of the final product to give an example
and a short description of the lesson. They will then be given a demo with the modeling

Lander University Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

clay to show how to handle materials, how to form a pinch pot, and how to scratch and
slip pieces of clay together. They will then begin handling the modeling clay and
generate ideas of what they want their work to look like. The will then create a final piece
by making a pinch pot, attaching arms and a head. They will also need to have feet
made but they will not be attached. The instructor will then fire the ceramics in the kiln.
The students will then paint the now fired ceramics and let them dry. Next the feet will
be attached to the rest of the body with beaded string to complete the ceramic
decoration.
Activity Analysis:

Students will be presented a teachers example and a demo to show the

techniques used to make the ceramic art
Students will also practice with modeling class so that they can be provided with
good feedback prior to making a final piece.