Title of Lesson: Percussive Pods (Music Calzones) (Jingle Jangle Ravioli)

Teacher: Amal Ghanimah

School: Bottenfield Elementary

Grade Level[s]: 3

Date to be Taught: After spring break

Big Idea that drives Lesson/Unit:

Students will learn the fundamentals of ceramics and functionalities behind key elements such
as texture, form, purpose, and composition. Students will learn how to integrate the subject of
music into their artwork, while still abiding by the necessary steps to properly work with clay.

Fine Arts Goals Met by the Objectives:

· VA:Pr4.1.I- Analyze, select, and curate artifacts or artworks for presentation and preservation.
· VA:Cr2.1.8- Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas,
forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art making or designing.

Vocabulary Acquisition:
· Texture: The surface quality of artwork
· Critique: As a verb, critique means to review or examine something critically.
. design: purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact,
or material object.
- artistic process: a general guideline for a process of creating artwork
- slip and score

Artmaking Materials Needed:

· finished projects
- paper
- pencils

Contemporary/Historical/Multicultural/Literature exemplars:
· Ocarina
· Barry Hall–globular horns, made with stoneware clay
· Blick example video of percussive pods (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=cuY059s5dUs)

Procedures:
· DISCUSSION:
o Introduce project and demo
· DEMONSTRATIONS:
o These are the techniques we will be using on this projects
-Demonstrate cutting slab, adding basic texture, and slipping and scoring
· DESIGN/WORK SESSION:
-Students will work on sketching out compositions for their pods
-Students will make beads and roll them in cornstarch
-Beads will be left to get bone-dry
-Students will begin rolling out slabs
-Comments/Questions asked by teachers:
-What do you want the texture of your pod to say about your entire
composition?
-Think about the story or meaning you want your pod to have. Is it going
to tell a story? Say something about yourself? Be abstract? Think about
how these will tie into your entire project.
· CLEAN UP:
-Cover their pods
- Clean and put away tools
- Wipe down tables and put away extra clay scraps
· CLOSURE:
o On our last day once they are fired, we will shake the pods as a class and see the different
sounds that they have created.