Detailed Curriculum Connections
Ceramics Workshops
JK - Grade 10 (Workshops can be adapted for Grades 11 – 12)
Learn the fundamentals of clay handling while experimenting with shape, form and texture. Students will explore hand-building techniques like pinch pot, slab and coil to create a variety of possible projects (selected when you make your booking) including animal figures and percussion shakers. Ceramic pieces will be kiln fired and ready for pick-up within three weeks of the workshop. After kiln firing, pieces can be painted with acrylic paints in the classroom.
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Kindergarten
The Arts
Expectations
Use pictures, sculptures, and collages to represent ideas.
Use a variety of tools and materials in creating artworks or making presentations.
Solve problems creatively.
Share materials in visual arts activities.
Mathematics
Expectations
Use language accurately to describe basic spatial relationships (e.g. above/below, Near/far, and in/out)
Identify 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects (e.g. circle, square, rectangle,and triangle: blocks balls,cones).
Science & Technology
Expectations
Describe characteristics of natural materials and demonstrate understanding of some basic concepts related to them.
Make things using a variety of tools and techniques.
Social and Personal Development
Expectations
Use different types of equipment and materials with ease.
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Grade 1
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce a variety of two-and three-dimensional art works, using elements and principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings;
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and personal understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to respond to design challenges
Science and Technology: Understanding Structures and Mechanisms
3. Understanding basic Concepts: demonstrate an understanding that objects and structures have observable characteristics and are made from materials with specific properties that determine how they are used
3.7: describe the properties of materials that enable the objects and structures made from them to perform their intended function
3.9: identify the sources in nature of some common materials that are used in making structures
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Grade 2
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce a variety of two-and three-dimensional art works, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to respond to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their social and/or community contexts;
D3.2: demonstrate an awareness of a variety of works of art and artistic traditions from diverse communities, times, and places
Science and Technology: Understanding Matter and Energy
3. Understanding Basic Concepts: demonstrate an understanding of the properties of liquids and solids
3.1: identify objects in the natural and built environment as solids
3.2: describe the properties of solids (e.g. they maintain their shape and cannot be poured) and liquids (e.g. they take the shape of the container they are in and can be poured)
3.4: identify conditions in which the states of liquids and solids remain constant (e.g. solids remain solid when poured) and conditions that can cause their states to change (e.g. liquids may freeze when the temperature drops; solids may melt when heated)
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Grade 3
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce a variety of two- and three-dimensional art works, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition using principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to respond to design challenges
Science and Technology: Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Soils and the Environment
3. Understanding Basic Concepts: demonstrate an understanding of the composition of soils, the types of soils, and the relationship between soils and other living things;
3.1: identify and describe the different types of soils (e.g., sandy soil is made up of minerals and tiny pieces of rock that have come from the erosion and weathering of rocks. It feels gritty and does not stick together well. Sandy soil drains easily and quickly after a rain and warms up quickly in the spring, bud does not hold water and nutrients as well as clay soil, and is eroded more easily. Loamy soil is made up of sand, silt and clay in relatively equal amounts. It sticks together better than sand but not as well as clay. Loamy soil holds water and nutrients well, and also drain well so that sufficient air can reach the roots. Clay soil is a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when wet but hard when dried. It feels slick and smooth. Clay soils have poor drainage and aeration.)
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Clay Mask Making
Grades 4 – 10 (workshops can be adapted to suit Grades 11-12)
Learn the fundamentals of hand-building to create a clay mask. Students will explore methods for creating surface texture and for applying additional clay to create volume. Finished masks will be kiln fired and ready for pick-up within three weeks of the workshop. After kiln firing, pieces can be painted with acrylic paints in the classroom.
Grades 4
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the Creative Process to produce a variety of two-and-three dimensional artworks using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas and understandings;
D1.1: create two-and-three dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by their interests and experiences.
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts;
D3.2: demonstrate an awareness of a variety of art forms, styles, and traditions, and describe how they reflect the diverse cultures, times and places in which they were made
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Grade 5
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce a variety of two-and-three dimensional art works, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas and understandings;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historic contexts
D3.1: describe how forms and styles of visual and media arts represent various messages and contexts in the past and present (e.g. printmaking as a form of communication)
D3.2: demonstrate an awareness of ways in which visual arts reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of peoples and of people in different times and places
Science and Technology: Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of and Changes in Matter
3. Understanding Basic Concepts: demonstrate an understanding of the properties of matter, changes of state, and physical and chemical change;
3.3: explain changes of state in matter (e.g. evaporation, condensation, solidification or freezing, fusion or melting, sublimation), and give examples of each (e.g. water from wet clothes evaporates; steam from a boiling kettle condenses on a cold window; water in ponds and lakes solidifies or freezes in winter; a frozen treat melts on a warm summer day; a moth ball sublimates in the closet)
3.5: describe chemical changes in matter as changes in matter that are irreversible (e.g. when the chrome on a bicycle rusts, it can never go back to being chrome; when an egg is boiled it can never go back to being a raw egg)
3.7: identify indicators of a chemical change (e.g. production of a gas, change in colour, formation of precipitate)
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Grade 6
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two-and-three dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages and understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and technologies to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts;
D3.1: identify and describe some of the ways in which art forms and styles reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of communities, times, and places
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Grade 7
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies;
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings for a specific audience and purpose
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and technologies to determine solutions to increasingly complex design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts
D3.1: identify and describe some of the ways in which visual art forms and styles reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of cultures and civilizations
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Grade 8
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two-and three- dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using multiple principles of design and other layout considerations such as compositional triangles to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings for a specific audience and purpose
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques and technologies to determine solutions to increasingly complex design challenges
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Grade 9
Comprehensive Arts: Open
Theory
identify the elements and principles common to all the arts (e.g., space, time, form, contrast, unity, variety, movement, balance)
demonstrate an understanding of the use of elements and principles in various artworks of their own and others
explain how chosen techniques used in works and productions communicate mood and message
Creation
create works in one art by applying elements and principles found in all the arts (e.g., space and rhythm in dance, line and repetition in music, dynamics and contrasts in drama, and form and movement in visual arts)
Analysis
use appropriately language specific to each of the arts when doing critical analysis (e.g. the language of sculpture or the language of photography)
identify, research, and describe resources within the community in cooperation with local artists
identify cultural symbols within artworks
Visual Arts: Open
Theory
Design and Composition:
apply the elements and principles of design to their own art, to historical artworks, and to natural and constructed environments
understand and apply the elements and principles of design as expressive components in their personal creative works
Personal Applications
demonstrate the ability to incorporate personal interests and hobbies in their art
identify, research and describe careers in visual art
Creation
Perceiving and Planning
identify and implement perception-enhancing design devices (e.g., magnification, distortion, reversals, partial views) to create images
Experimenting and Producing
demonstrate an understanding of basic drawing skills and concepts through the use of various materials (e.g., pencils, conte, charcoal) and a variety of strategies (e.g., contour, value, proportion)
demonstrate an understanding of materials, basic skills, and concepts in painting (e.g., tempera, gouache, colour theory; experimentation with tools and materials), printmaking (e.g. simple stencil, collagraph, simple relief or intaglio print; registering, proofing, editioning), and sculpture (e.g., plaster, clay, found materials; carving, modelling, assembling)
complete studio projects in fine art and applied design using the creative process
complete exercises and produce artworks in a variety of media to solve open-ended problems (e.g., illusion of depth, creating balance, designing a functional object)
demonstrate the ability to create representational, abstract, and non-objective artworks that convey ideas or concepts (e.g. warmth, conflict).
Reviewing and Evaluating
use appropriate art vocabulary related to materials, processes, and technologies
Analysis
Critical Process
describe the materials used and the steps followed in the creation of a particular artwork
Aesthetics
explain the organization of visual content in the creation of artworks
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Grade 10
Visual Arts: Open
Theory
explain how compositions are altered by a change in design principles (e.g., contrast of lines vs. contrast of colour)
Personal Applications
describe similarities and differences between careers in design and fine art
Creation
use tools, materials, processes, and technologies safely and appropriately
Experimenting and Producing
demonstrate the ability to solve artistic problems and make creative choices when completing artworks that reflect their concerns
demonstrate the ability to use and increasing range of tools, materials, processes, and technologies in producing works of fine art and applied design
Reviewing and Evaluating
use appropriate visual arts vocabulary in describing materials and processes
Analysis
Critical Process
describe the stages of the design process followed in a particular assignment
Aesthetics
explain how the formal organization of visual content (formalism) as well as the imitation of life (imitationalism) can be used to create and think about works of art
demonstrate the understanding of the use of symbols in creative expression
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Historic “Art”ifacts
Grades 4 – 10 (workshops can be adapted to suit Grades 11-12)
Connect clay to the curriculum! Each project that students will make will be catered to specific expectations for their grade. Grade Five students will learn to make canopic jars for the preparation of Ancient Egyptian mummies while Grade Four students will create gargoyles to relate to medieval times. Other examples of projects include; Greek urns, Totem Poles and Roman relief tiles.
Grade 4
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the Creative Process to produce a variety of two-and-three dimensional artworks using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas and understandings;
D1.1: create two-and-three dimensional works of art that express feelings and ideas inspired by their interests and experiences.
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts;
D3.1: describe how visual art forms and styles represent various messages and contexts in the past and present
D3.2: demonstrate an awareness of a variety of art forms, styles, and traditions, and describe how they reflect the diverse cultures, times and places in which they were made
Social Studies: Heritage and Citizenship: Medieval Times
Knowledge and Understanding:
describe characteristics of castles and aspects of castle life
Inquiry / Research and Communication Skills:
use media works, oral presentations, written notes and descriptions, and drawings to communicate information about life in medieval society
Application:
use artistic expression to re-create or respond to imaginative works from medieval times
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Grade 5
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce a variety of two-and-three dimensional art works, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts to communicate feelings, ideas and understandings;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, and techniques to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historic contexts
D3.1: describe how forms and styles of visual and media arts represent various messages and contexts in the past and present (e.g. printmaking as a form of communication)
D3.2: demonstrate an awareness of ways in which visual arts reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of peoples and of people in different times and places
Social Studies: Early Civilizations
Expectations
Identify some of the major scientific and technological achievements of early
civilizations (e.g. in architecture, sculpture, and medicine)
Identify and compare design and technology in early civilizations (with respect to
roads, jewellery, irrigation systems, tools, food preservations, pottery, and buildings)
Science and Technology: Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of and Changes in Matter
3. Understanding Basic Concepts: demonstrate an understanding of the properties of matter, changes of state, and physical and chemical change;
3.3: explain changes of state in matter (e.g. evaporation, condensation, solidification or freezing, fusion or melting, sublimation), and give examples of each (e.g. water from wet clothes evaporates; steam from a boiling kettle condenses on a cold window; water in ponds and lakes solidifies or freezes in winter; a frozen treat melts on a warm summer day; a moth ball sublimates in the closet)
3.5: describe chemical changes in matter as changes in matter that are irreversible (e.g. when the chrome on a bicycle rusts, it can never go back to being chrome; when an egg is boiled it can never go back to being a raw egg)
3.7: identify indicators of a chemical change (e.g. production of a gas, change in colour, formation of precipitate)
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Grade 6
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two-and-three dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies;
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using selected principles of design to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages and understandings
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and technologies to determine solutions to design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts;
D3.1: identify and describe some of the ways in which art forms and styles reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of communities, times, and places
Social Studies: First Nation Peoples and European Explorers
Expectations
describe characteristics of pre-contact First Nation cultures across Canada, including their close relationship with the natural environment; the motivations and attributes of the European explorers; and the effects of contact on both the receiving and the incoming groups
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Grade 7
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies;
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings for a specific audience and purpose
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques, and technologies to determine solutions to increasingly complex design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts
D3.1: identify and describe some of the ways in which visual art forms and styles reflect the beliefs and traditions of a variety of cultures and civilizations
D3.2: demonstrate an understanding of the function of visual and media arts in various contexts today and in the past, and of their influence on the development of personal and cultural identity
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Grade 8
The Arts: Visual Arts
D1 Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two-and three- dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies
D1.2: demonstrate an understanding of composition, using multiple principles of design and other layout considerations such as compositional triangles to create narrative art works or art works on a theme or topic
D1.3: use elements of design in art works to communicate ideas, messages, and understandings for a specific audience and purpose
D1.4: use a variety of materials, tools, techniques and technologies to determine solutions to increasingly complex design challenges
D3 Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts;
D3.2: identify and analyse some of the social, political, and economic factors that affect the creation of visual and media arts and the visual and media arts community
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Grade 9
Comprehensive Arts: Open
Theory
identify the elements and priniciples common to all the arts (e.g., space, time, form, contrast, unity, variety, movement, balance)
demonstrate an understanding of the use of elements and principles in various artworks of their own and others
explain how chosen techniques used in works and productions communicate mood and message
Creation
create works in one art by applying elements and principles found in all the arts (e.g., space and rhythm in dance, line and repetition in music, dynamics and contrasts in drama, and form and movement in visual arts)
Analysis
use appropriately language specific to each of the arts when doing critical analysis (e.g. the language of sculpture or the language of photography)
identify, research, and describe resources within the community in cooperation with local artists
identify cultural symbols within artworks
Visual Arts: Open
Theory
Design and Compostion:
apply the elements and principles of design to their own art, to historical artworks, and to natural and constructed environments
understand and apply the elements and principles of design as expressive components in their personal creative works
Personal Applications:
demonstrate the ability to incorporate personal interests and hobbies in their art
identify, research and describe careers in visual art
Creation
Percieving and Planning
identify and implement perception-enhancing design devices (e.g., magnification, distortion, reversals, partial views) to create images
Experimenting and Producing
demonstrate an understanding of basic drawing skills and concepts through the use of various materials (e.g., pencils, conte, charcoal) and a variety of strategies (e.g., contour, value, proportion)
demonstrate an understanding of materials, basic skills, and concepts in painting (e.g., tempera, gouache, colour theory; experimentation with tools and materials), printmaking (e.g. simple stencil, collagraph, simple relief or intaglio print; registering, proofing, editioning), and sculpture (e.g., plaster, clay, found materials; carving, modelling, assembling)
complete studio projects in fine art and applied design using the creative process
complete exercises and produce artworks in a variety of media to solve open-ended problems (e.g., illusion of depth, creating balance, designing a functional object)
demonstrate the ability to create representational, abstract, and non-objective artworks that convey ideas or concepts (e.g. warmth, conflict).
Reviewing and Evaluating
use appropriate art vocabulary related to materials, processes, and technologies
Analysis
Critical Process
describe the materials used and the steps followed in the creation of a particular artwork
Aesthetics
explain the organization of visual content in the creation of artworks
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Grade 10
Visual Arts: Open
Theory
explain how compositions are altered by a change in design principles (e.g., contrast of lines vs contrast of colour)
Personal Applications
describe similarities and differences between careers in design and fine art
Creation
use tools, materials, processes, and technologies safely and appropriately
Experimenting and Producing
demonstrate the ability to solve artistic problems and make creative choices when completing artworks that reflect their concerns
demonstrate the ability to use and increasing range of tools, materials, processes, and technologies in producing works of fine art and applied design
Reviewing and Evaluating
use appropriate visual arts vocabulary in describing materials and processes
Analysis
Critical Process
describe the stages of the design process followed in a particular assignment
Aesthetics
explain how the formal organization of visual content (formalism) as well as the imitation of life (imitationalism) can be used to create and think about works of art
demonstrate the understanding of the use of symbols in creative expression
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