Robot Homes

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will transform miscellaneous hardware pieces, found objects, and air-dry clay into a home sculpture for a robot.

Level

Beginner

Areas of Study

Architecture Mixed Media Sculpture Ceramics Form Texture

Collections

Transformation and Homes

Lesson Objectives

Students will use their imagination to create a whimsical robot home.

Students will gather hardware pieces and metal found objects with classmates to use in their mixed-media sculpture.

Students will safely arrange and connect building materials together to form a house structure.

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Teaching Strategies

Explain how artists use their imaginations to create whimsical looking artworks.
Instruct students to sort hardware pieces and metal found objects in the shared bins for sculpture parts.
Instruct students on how to properly work with sharp objects.
Model how to lay out a design problem before final construction.

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National Standards

Create

Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

VA:Cr2.2.1a

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

VA:Cr3.1.2a

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

2.VA:Cr3

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.

2.VA:Cr2.2

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

1.VA:Cr1.1

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

30 minutes

Demonstration Time

20 minutes

Student Studio Time

1 hour and 30 minutes

Supplies and Materials

Air dry clay
Miscellaneous hardware and metal found objects
Clay tools
Metallic paints
Paint brush
Little Robots: M. Brownlow, ISBN: 1929927053
Little Robot Rabbit: M. Brownlow, ISBN: ‎1929927371

National Standards

Create

Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

VA:Cr2.2.1a

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

VA:Cr3.1.2a

Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.

2.VA:Cr3

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.

2.VA:Cr2.2

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

1.VA:Cr1.1

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Steps

Inspiration

Look at the illustrations in the robot books for inspiration. Discuss with classmates how the illustrations of robots and houses look like pieces of metal that have been riveted together. Examine riveted objects.

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