Ceramics 1
New Jersey Core Content Standards:**
1.1 Aesthetics – All students will use aesthetics knowledge in the creation of, and in response to visual arts.
1.2 Creation & Performance – All students will utilize those skills, media, methods and technologies appropriate to each art form in the creation., performance and presentation of visual art.
1.3 Elements and Principles of the Arts – All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of the arts in visual art.
1.4 Critique – All students will develop, apply ad reflect upon knowledge of the process of critique.
1.5 History/Culture – All students will understand and analyze the role, development, and continuing influence of the arts to world cultures, history and society.
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Credits toward graduation: 5
Length of Course: 18 Weeks
Prerequisite: None
Ceramics I is an introductory course which will expose students to the
various construction techniques that are possible when exploring a plastic
material. Emphasis will be placed upon individual work.
Various combinations of ceramic texture and design possibilities will be carried through in each ceramic creation. Also, students will develop skill and gain knowledge necessary to work on the potter’s wheel. In addition, glaze techniques and basic firing procedures will be taught.
General Course Objectives
(aligned with NJCCC) **
Upon Completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Construct a creative three-dimensional project in which slab
techniques are used. (1.2, 1.3)
2. Construct a creative three-dimensional project in which coil
construction techniques are used. (1.2, 1.3)
3.Work on the pottery wheel to construct a 6 inch even-walled
cylinder. (1.2)
4.Glaze a ceramic object. (1.2)
5.The students will develop an understanding of 3-dimensional form
by a study of form and techniques of different ceramic artists. (1.1)
6. Study the use of form verses flat areas and use elements of
composition as a means to create a 3-dimensional object. (1.2, 1.3)
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the critique process. (1.4)
8. Become familiar with contemporary and historical ceramics. (1.1, 1.5)
Student Assessment
Mastery Level to Receive Credit for this Course:
Students must receive an average of 63 or better and comply with the school district’s policy in order to receive credit for this course. The following grading system will be used:
A = 96.5
A- =91
B+ = 88
B = 84.5
B- = 81
C+ = 78
C = 74.5
C-= 71
D+= 68
D= 65
Any grade below 65 is a failing grade.
Student Assessment
Students will be assessed in the following manner:
Performance Objectives
1. After the completion of the first four weeks of class, students will
have completed a ceramic project using slab techniques.
2. After the completion of the first nine weeks of class, student will
have completed a project created from coils of clay.
3. After the completion of the first fifteen weeks of class, student will have developed the skills necessary to throw a 6″ cylinder with even sides on the pottery wheel.
4. By the completion of the first semester, the student will have glazed all of his/her ceramic objects with a high correlation between form and aesthetic.
Evaluation/Assessment
1. Individual projects
2. Notebooks
3. Critiques
Attendance:
A) Report to class daily, on time, and prepared to work
B) Students must comply with the school district’s attendance policy in order to receive credit for the course.
Methods of Instruction
1. Lecture/discussion
2. Hands on teaching
3. Demonstration
4. Individual projects
Curriculum Topics, Suggested Lessons
The following timeframe is a guide that can be used in teacher planning. Each class has a personality and an ability level of its own and will be considered while planning for the year.
- The student will have completed a ceramic project using slab techniques
- The student will have made a project using repetition and
rhythm in a 12 inch rolled slab using plaster texture techniques.
- The student will have created a functional piece using leather
hard slabs, where form and function are interdependent.
- The student will have completed a project created from coils of clay.
- The student will have learned how to roll clay evenly and to
coil it to create a structurally sound ceramic object at least 12
inches high.
- The student will have decorated his ceramic object using one or more of the following techniques.
- Sgraffito
- inlaying of colored slabs
- burnishing and tooling carving
- The student will be able to throw a 6″ cylinder with even sides on the pottery wheel
- The student will have demonstrated wedging, centering,
opening, and bringing up a wall in the process of making a 6″
cylinder.
- centering a leather hard object on the wheel head 3.2.2 trimming a clear an well-defined foot
- The student will have glazed all of his ceramic objects with high correlation between form and aesthetic.
- The student will make a project where he/she will use the. spraying
technique to glaze his/her pottery.
- o The student will make a ceramic object or a test tile which he
will glaze by using the dipping technique.
- o The student will demonstrate his proficiency in the brushing
technique by glazing a project or test title using that technique.
- o The student will make a ceramic object on which he will
demonstrate the pouring technique of glazing.
- The student will use the wax resist technique to decorate a
ceramic object.
- The student will use the technique of incising to decorate a ceramic object.
- The student will use two or more coloring oxides to
understand further the relationship of color and form.
