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The Clay Game - an AP Art History Review Activity

Created on April 01, 2012 by Astabeth


This is a game that I use with my AP Art History students to reinforce their knowledge in a fun way.


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THE PLAN
1 session; 15 minutes per session

** This is not really a lesson plan. This is a game that we play to reinforce learning in a fun way. **

1. SWBAT create 3-dimensional replicas of 2- and 3-dimensional artworks, including paintings, architecture, sculptures, prints, etc.
2. SWBAT identify the titles, artists, styles, and other pertinent info of artworks created by his/her classmates and the teacher.

1. Modeling clay, enough for each student and the instructor to have plenty (the instructor gets to play, too!)

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1. Announce that since there are 10 minutes (or however many, or since we are reviewing for a test, etc.) left in class and it's not enough time to start a new chapter, it's time to get out the modeling clay!
2. Wait for students to quit cheering and get the clay out.
3. Each student will begin to 'sculpt' a work of art that the class has previously learned.
4. Students may guess what each other's work is while they are sculpting. Expect the sculpting process to be interrupted by students frantically flipping through the textbook when they recognize something but can't remember the name or the artist.
5. Each correct guess gets the student who guessed correctly one point. You can choose whether they must name title & artist; title, artist & style; or whether they can use the textbook.
6. If you play along, not only can you monitor the students' knowledge, but you can encourage weaker players and try to make the better players sweat by gaining points on them.
7. Sometimes I award bonus points to the winner, sometimes not. They have so much fun playing this game, that they really don't care if I give them points.

This is not an assessable activity, except for the instructor giving points and monitoring student knowledge. It would not be fair to give a grade for this activity - it is a review and some students have more trouble with the clay.

Any art history textbook.

This is my AP Art History students' favorite thing to do - they love it!!!

THE FEATURES
Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Fra Angelico, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Banksy, Jean Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, William Blake, Giotto di Bondone, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Louise Bourqeois, Georges Braque, Pieter the Elder Bruegel, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Alexander Calder, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Giorgio de Chirico, Cimabue, Chuck Close, John Singleton Copley, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dali, Honor Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Stuart Davis, Edgar Degas, Donatello, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Eakins, Eugène Delacroix, Diego Velázquez, Max Ernst, M.C. Escher, Jan van Eyck, Paul Cézanne, Gentile Fabriano, Audrey Flack, Piero della Francesca, Helen Frankenthaler, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Gaudi, Paul Gauguin, Frank Gehry, Artemisia Gentileschi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Alberto Giacometti, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Goldsworthy, Arschille Gorky, Francisco de Goya, El Greco, Juan Gris, Frans Hals, Keith Haring, Ando Hiroshige, David Hockney, Katsushika Hokusai, Hans the Younger Holbein, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorthea Lange, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, Edouard Manet, Andrea Mantegna, Franz Marc, Tomaso Masaccio, Henri Matisse, Jean-Fran Millet, Joan Miro, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Berthe Morisot, Robert Motherwell, Edvard Munch, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Käthe Kollwitz, I.M. Pei, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Nicolas Poussin, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Théodore Géricault, Rembrandt van Rijn, Faith Ringgold, Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, Henri Rousseau, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael Sanzio, John Singer Sargent, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Frank Stella, Yves Tanguy, Tintoretto, Titian, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Cy Twombly, Paolo Uccello, Albrecht Dürer, Jan Vermeer, Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Grant Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth

Pop Art, Indigenous American Art, Islamic Art, Kinetic Art, Mannerism, Mesopotamia, Minimalism, Modernism, Neo-Expressionism, Neoclassicism, Oceanic Art, Op Art, Orientalism, Orphism, Photography, Photorealism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Postmodernism, Pre-Columbian, Precisionism, Prehistoric, Realism, Regionalism, Renaissance, Rococo, Romanesque, Romanticism, Street Art, Superrealism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, African Art, American Art, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ancient Rome, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts Movement, Asian Art, Baroque, Bauhaus, Byzantine, Classicism, Abstract Art, Conceptual Art, Constructivism, Contemporary Realism, Cubism, Dadaism, Early Christian Art, Eastern Art, European Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Folk Art, Futurism, Gothic, Hard Edge, Harlem Renaissance

Form, Space, Texture

Sculpture