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Lesson Plans


Clay organization

From: Jdecker.US
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 09:48:25 PST

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    Crista's plan for organizing is great....I used to do this but students
    kept getting lazier and lazier about putting things in the right
    places. I have plastic boxes with clay tools in for each table--this
    way they get one box of tools--all tools go back in the same box.
    The boxes are numbered to match my tables (ooo same color, too--
    I got lucky that year). If they do not clean them up at the end of
    the period--they just have to clean them before they use them. I
    still keep rolling pins in one box, canvas cloth in a tray, guide
    sticks on one tray.......This worked better for me for middle school
    students and shorter class periods (only 41 minutes).

    Judy

    Christa wrote:

    1. Label everything! You cannot be too anal about the clay unit.
    Containers for wire loop tools, basswood modeling tools, rolling
    pins,
    burlaps, wood slats or dowels for rolling slabs, needle tools,
    extruders,
    sponges, rubber scrapers, saw-toothed scrapers, and smooth steel
    scrapers,
    throwing tools, slips containers, turntables, scrap buckets, dryng
    cabinets, and glazed and ready-to-fire cabinets all need marking.
    Demonstrate how to build and how to find the tools, and how to
    clean up.
    This is high interest curriculum, they will listen. 

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