Presents four ceramics activities for secondary-level art classes. Included are directions for primitive kiln construction and glaze making. Two ceramics design activities are described in which students make bizarrely-shaped lidded jars, feet, and footwear. (AM)

Describes eight art activities using ceramics. Elementary students created ceramic tiles to depict ancient Egyptian and medieval European art, made ceramic cookie stamps, traced bisque plates on sketch paper, constructed clay room-tableaus, and designed clay relief masks. Secondary students pit-fired ceramic pots and designed ceramic Victorian…

Contemporary ceramic artist William Daly's stoneware work entitled "Shang Play" is discussed. Art activities to help elementary and secondary students learn about ceramic art are suggested. (RM)

Clay sculpture is difficult to produce because of the requirements of kiln firing. The problems can be overcome by modeling the original manikin head and making a plaster mold, pressing molding slabs of clay into the plaster mold to form the hollow clay armature, and sculpting on the armature. (IS)

A chess set project is suggested to teach multiple throwing, the creation on a potter's wheel of several pieces of similar configuration. Processes and finished sets are illustrated with photographs. (SJL)

The pots described in this article evolved through a process of pressing objects into clay pieces for textural impressions and arranging these impressed pieces together for an overall pattern. (Author)

Detailed instructions are given for creating small boxes or caskets from clay slabs. (SJL)

Junior high school students studied the cultural uses, symbolic meanings, and general physical forms of tombs and tombstones and then used basic slab building techniques to construct large clay grave markers. (RM)

Raku is an ancient Japanese process of firing pottery in which the bisqued piece is glazed and placed in a preheated kiln. Described are the benefits of substituting sawdust and charcoal for firing pottery by those people who do not have access to a kiln. (KC)

Described is the process of making four pottery items: a planter with drainage dish, a bird feeder, a square pot, and an oil lamp. (KC)

Described is the process of firing clay pottery through the use of a charcoal kettle grill, an inexpensive alternative to the kiln. (KC)

This lesson resource focuses on the interdisciplinary study of dinosaurs and provides insight into the work of paleontologists. The plan includes lesson goals and objectives; background preparation; a glossary of terms; a list of supplies; optional supplies; and instructions and suggestions for lesson implementation. Supplies needed include a…

Thorough advance planning will eliminate much of the clutter and the mud hazards associated with the introduction of ceramics. Provides some helpful suggestions for teaching ceramics in an efficient and tidy fashion. (Author/RK)

Describes the process of making ceramic sculpture with photographs showing the process from beginning to end. (RK)

An art activity which involved elementary students in making coiled clay constructions is described. (RM)