Elementary Visual School Arts

Art reproductions
of clay vessels

Instructional Resources and Materials

Physical Technology-Based

Face Jugs

Exemplars of student
work

Textbooks

Red or white clay
Clay tools
Water containers
Sponges
Canvas mats

Physical examples of
local pottery (Jug Town,
Cole, Ben Owen, Phil
Morgan)

Teacher Resources:

PBS Detectives Investigate Face Jugs

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/educators/les

sonplan/face-jug/

Face Jugs by Jim McDowell

http://www.blackpotter.com/func1.html

Dave the Slave Information:

http://www.davetheslave.org/

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave.

by Laban Carrick Hill, Little, Brown and Company,

New York and Boston, 2010

Unit Vocabulary Terms Enrichment/Extension Interdisciplinary

Connections

Priority

Standards

Concepts

Supporting

Standards

Concepts and

Other Unit-

Specific Terms

Pottery
Ceramics
Functional
Green ware
Bisque
Leather hard
Clay
Earthenware
Scoring

Elements of art

Line

Shape

Color

Texture

Principles of

Design

Arrange for local guest

artist to visit and either

show or demonstrate

their work in clay

(throwing a pot, Raku

firing).

Read, When Clay Sings

by Byrd Baylor, 1972,

Aladdin Books

Science: Clay

makeup

Social Studies:

The geographic

and cultural

history of

Seagrove, North

Carolina

(traditions)

Students will

explore the