Clayscapes
Make a clayscape, or a 3D landscape about personal connections to spaces in the community.
Resources
- Clay
- Clay building tools
- Fork and/or toothpick
- Glaze or acrylic paint
Fine Art Standards
- VA:CR1.1.3: Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
- VA:CR2.1.3: Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.
- VA:CR3.1.3: Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.
- VA:CR1.2.3: Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
- VA:CR2.3.3: Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.
Integrated Standards
- 3RD GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARD 1: Objective 3. Analyze ways cultures use, maintain, and preserve the physical environment.
- Objective 3a. Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry).
- STANDARD 2: Students will understand cultural factors that shape a community.
- Objective 1. Evaluate key factors that determine how a community develops.
- Objective 1a. Identify the elements of culture (e.g. language, religion, customs, artistic expression, systems of exchange).
Objectives
- Identify and discover personal connection with places in the community
- Develop clay building techniques