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Use this as a handout or post in on your learning platform as a guide for discussion about form and function. This activity includes some background information on form, function, and design, as well as setting up the discussion between Frank Lloyd Wright and Sullivan on which should come first in design. This is briefly touched on in the Introduction to Ceramics Slideshow and is a great way to move into a pottery unit.

This Ceramics Unit Bundle has everything you need for a ceramics handbuilding unit. The bundle includes a beautiful, clear, and thorough Introduction to Ceramics presentation; a guided notes handout to ensure that your students pay attention to your presentation and retain the information; a clay exploration activity; and a nesting ceramic dishes project your students are sure to love, complete with a slideshow to introduce the project.

This Art Criticism Bundle is a great way to introduce formal art criticism. It includes an introduction slideshow with discussion and practice opportunities; handouts for students to reference; a handout scaffolding the format art criticism process; and a rubric for assessing their work. I use this with my Art II students who are already familiar with elements and principles and are used to talking about art, but have not yet written works of formal art criticism. I have used this with my annu

Use the Introduction to Ceramics: Guided Notes alongside the Introduction to Ceramics slideshow to ensure students pay attention and retain information from the presentation. The presentation covers: VocabularyStages of clayToolsHand building techniquesJoining techniquesDecorative techniquesAdvice about moistureGeneral tipsRulesClean up procedures

Students can practice different shading techniques and use them to create value scales. This worksheet is a great skillbuilder activity to introduce or practice shading. It can work alongside a demo or on its own.

This worksheet guides students to critique a work of art following the See Think Wonder format, including guiding questions. See also the See Think Wonder Infographic.

Art Criticism Handout explaining the Feldman model of art criticism.

Art criticism worksheet following Feldman's model of art criticism: describe, analyze, interpret, judge. Gives students the format and space to critique a work of art.

Develop rich thinking about the concept of "alone" through a journaling assignment with guiding questions.

Colored pencil techniques skill building handouts. Students shade and color forms using colored pencil techniques they learned in the previous lesson.