Baltic ceramics. Pottery.
In 2017 Uzupys main school was visited by the members of Erasmus “Practice Makes Perfect”
One of offered activities was to make a hand print.
In 2017 Uzupys main school was visited by the members of Erasmus “Practice Makes Perfect”
One of offered activities was to make a hand print.
The process a making hand print presented everyone with lots of positive emotions and the preparation work gave people many ideas how to make lessons more interesting and exciting. One of the ideas was a method of a flipping class.
It is one of integrations lessons in class 7, the topic of which is “Baltic Ceramics. Pottery”.
Pupils obtain following skills at the lesson:
Using various sources they will get acquainted with the examples of traditional Lithuanian and modern ceramics and they will him learning to express their ideas with the help of their works of ceramics.
Problems:
It is one of integrations lessons in class 7, the topic of which is “Baltic Ceramics. Pottery”.
Pupils obtain following skills at the lesson:
- Communications: they find and select information;
- Learning to learn: they choose suitable sources of information and plan their time carefully;
- Initiatively and creativity: they work creatively and show initiative.
- Social: they seek for a common goal and agree with each other upon details
Using various sources they will get acquainted with the examples of traditional Lithuanian and modern ceramics and they will him learning to express their ideas with the help of their works of ceramics.
Problems:
- Watching slides and a film, they will get acquitted with one of the oldest handicrafts – pottery.
- They will make a bowl and a cup from clay and they will decorate them.
- They will decorate by angobais.
- They will glaze the fabric at the end.
- Pupils are divided into groups and they are asked to find all the necessary material about Baltic ceramics and to prepare slides.
- Pupils present the material and the slides to their teacher and they discuss what is going to be show in lesson.
- Pupils watch the film “Baltic Ceramics”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hX64smuDsg
- Everyone finds out that ceramics is, who are producers and who are consumers, the examples are given.
- The topic of the lesson and problems are being announced.
- Pupils present slides made at home about pottery.
- They watch a short video about process of making a clay pot.
- The teacher explains and shows the process herself and pupils decide what dish they would like to make and start the work all by them.
- The students follow the teachers example while decorating their dishes in several ways.
- The exhibiting of finished clay dishes and discussing the results.
- Students prepare a glossary of terms and a brief description of the work in English while preparing their presentations.
The evaluation of the lesson to stick “the tickets of exit”.
Teachers Audronė Vainauskienė and Virgilija Markevčienė
The evaluation of the lesson to stick “the tickets of exit”.
Teachers Audronė Vainauskienė and Virgilija Markevčienė