This is a lessons plan with handout and pictures connected to the big idea of "future". In the lesson the student will sculpt a clay fortune cookie and write a reflective “fortune” that predicts their future.
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THE PLAN
The student will sculpt a clay fortune cookie and write a reflective “fortune” that predicts their future.
The student will list the stages of clay and understand the different properties that change.
The student will use the following to express meaning in works of art: Form—convex, concave, positive, negative; texture.
1. sketchbooks
2. fortune cookies (Amazon! 100 for $14)
3. pencils
4. clay
5. clay boards
6. cups of water
7. rolling pins
8. plastic knives (or clay tools)
9. clay stampls
10. wire
11. beads
12. strips of paper
13. hot glue
14. rulers taped together (wooded slats for rollings)
15. glazes (I used mayco: wheat and sahara sands)
(This lesson followed a lesson I teach on making clay stamps. We use the clay stamps to create texture onto the fortune cookies.)
Day 1: The student will reflect and write about what they want for their future in their sketchbook. Where do you see yourself in 20 years? How will you make a difference in our world? What do you want to do that will make you happy? What does your future hold? How will you be helpful? Each student will then be given a real fortune cookie (Amazon! 100 for $14) to munch on. Students will read their fortune and then read tablemate’s fortunes. Call on volunteers to read their Chinese Fortune out loud to the class. Ask students what they think the meaning of the fortune is. Return to sketchbooks and have students edit and condense their writing into one sentence that they will use to later put inside their own clay fortune cookie. Switch with shoulder partner to edit any mistakes. Discuss ways to start sentence, “In your future…”, “You will…” etc.
Day 2: Teacher will demonstrate how to create the shape of the fortune cookie using clay and how to create a textured surface with student’s clay stamps from previous lesson. (Optional) Students will sculpt their clay fortune cookies and use their stamp to embellish the surface of the cookies. Teacher will later carve name and hole into the fortune cookie later to hang as ornament.
Day 3: The student will take notes in their sketchbook from the board. On the board teacher and students will discuss and list the stages and properties of clay. Stage 1: Plastic, Stage 2: Leather-hard, 3: Greenware, 4: Bisqueware, 5: Earthenware and pass around fortune cookie in the stage that we are discussing. What are the properties of the clay? What color is it? How does it feel? What is its temperature? Can it be molded? Will it hold its shape? What is glaze? How is it different from paint? Teacher will demonstrate how to glaze the fortune cookie with 3 layers. Students will glaze. (Mayco glazes, Wheat, and Sahara Sands)
Day 4: Students get back their glazed fortune cookies. Students rewrite their one sentence fortune from their sketchbook onto a long strip of white paper for their “fortune”. Teacher will demonstrate different paper manipulation techniques (folding, curling) and then students will pick a way to shape their paper fortune so that it fits inside their fortune or hangs on the outside. Next students will use colorful wire to feed through the hole on the cookie and slide on colorful beads. Students will finish by twisting the wire to create a secure loop and line up to have their fortune hot-glued onto their cookie.
I use formative assessment throughout this lesson: have students repeat directions to you to check understanding. While reading fortune cookies asking who in the class can tell us what the fortune may mean. At the end of class or start of a new class: What did we do? Why did we do it? What did I learn today? How can I apply it to another area of my life? What questions do I still have about it?
Exit slip: 3 things I learned today, 2 things I found interesting, 1 question I still have.
Pair share: Turn to your neighbor and read their fortune cookie. Check to see if they have spelled all their words correctly and if their sentence makes sense.
I am attaching a copy of this lesson with my contact info. My students really loved this lesson. It was great to do at the start of the year with my 5th graders talking about their future and what their goals were for their last year of elementary school.
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