Art Lesson Plan

Title: Coil Pot

Grade level (s): K-3
Suggested Time: 30-40 Minutes

Unit: African Art

Medium: Model Magic

Instructional Objectives (2-3):

1) Student will create functional pot (KS)
2) Student will create art from another culture (MO)
Elements of Art (1-3) line, color, shape, form, space, texture, value

Principles of Design (1-3) repetition, pattern, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, unity

Materials and Equipment:

Model magic

Vocabulary (4-5):
Coil, clay, ceramic, sculpture
Art Production (based on Madeline Hunter model)
1.anticipatory set
2. state objectives
3. Input: art history, instructions
5. check for understanding 6. guided practice 7. independent practice

4.demonstration, modeling
8. closure

1) Display power point on pottery (specifically African pottery)

2) Student will create a functional pot, student will create art from another culture
3) Discuss why we use coils. (Simple to make, but very strong)
4) Demonstrate premade coil pots
5) Have each student make a coil, and then walk about to check.
6) Show the students how to put the coils together, again walk and check
7) Then each student will individually create their own unique pot.
8) Aesthetic questions

Art History / Resources (2-4):

Explain the importance of a pot being functional.
Show photos of pots in use.

Aesthetic Questions (1-2):

Why did we use coils?
Are pots important?

Art Criticism / Analysis Questions (3-5):

Are all pots useful?
Are all pots pretty?
Would all pots be as easy to make as ours were?

Evaluation Criteria (should relate to objectives):

4 Cs Rubric

Modifications / Special Notes / Drawing

For those with poor fine motor skills or impaired hands I could help them put the coils
together and give them a larger more manageable brush to paint with.
For gifted students, a coil pot will be boring in about 4.3 seconds. So I could have them
build a pot with model magic that must hold a certain amount of weight, or be put to a
test. In a gifted classroom, it would be like an engineering contest.