There are a number of excellent lesson plans on Incredible Art
Department for high school. Will you be teaching a beginning ceramics
and advanced? Will it be a semester course or all year?
There is plenty here for beginning and advanced ceramics. For advanced
ceramics, I focused more of different decorating techniques and did
more theme based works.
Students did more advanced projects using handbuilding techniques. You
can provide a balance of functional ceramics and sculptural ceramics.
Students do like ceramic sculpture.
Let us know how long the class is and we could help put together a curriculum.
Beginning ceramics should include all the basic handbuilding
techniques, some glaze testing and some decorating techniques - and of
course ceramic history. You build on that for advanced ceramics.
Get your hands on some clay this summer and work through a sample of
each project you would like to try. You can get a local ceramic
business (or potter) to fire them for you (they will charge you a
small fee).
There are also many middle school lessons that can be adapted to high school.
