Writing and Art: Modeling Clay Figures

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Subjects

English Language Arts
--Writing
--Folklore
Fine Arts

Grade

4

Brief Description

After reading The Clay Boy by Mirra Ginsburg, students will learn how to model figures using modeling clay for a story they write.

Objectives

Students will

• Write a story that includes a main character, a plot, and a setting.
• Create a main character for their story.
• Develop a plot for the story: Who did what, where, when, and why.
• Form the figure/figures in their story using modeling clay.
• Learn that clay animation is used to form motion pictures by manipulating the clay forms from pose to pose, taking a series of pictures, then running them together at a fast pace, frame by frame, to produce an animated film.

Keywords

Language Arts, writing, story, character, plot, setting, art, modeling, clay, animation

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Lesson Plan Source

Cre8time, through partnership with EducationWorld

Submitted by

Sargent

National Standards

Visual Arts
Grades K-4
Content Standard #1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
Content Standard #3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject mater, symbols, and ideas
Content Standard #6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

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