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  • Ronald Brown Academy
  • Detroit, MI
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Do you remember the clay pots you made in elementary school? It's almost like a rite of passage where you learn the new techniques to create a different one each year to give to your parents. My art budget is almost non-existent. I can request regular classroom supplies like paper, markers, and colored pencils, but consumable items like clay are hard to come by. With this project, we will be using different techniques to make clay pots to decorate and take home. The non-hardening clay will be used to learn the techniques such as pinching and rolling, and then the air drying clay will be used for the actual projects. We will let them dry, add some more style to them with paint, and spray with sealant to help them last forever. In order for students to see how art applies to real life, we will be doing these pots when the students are learning about Earth's resources in science class. We will talk about clay and what it is made of and where it comes from while we are working with the art.

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Do you remember the clay pots you made in elementary school? It's almost like a rite of passage where you learn the new techniques to create a different one each year to give to your parents. My art budget is almost non-existent. I can request regular classroom supplies like paper, markers, and colored pencils, but consumable items like clay are hard to come by. With this project, we will be using different techniques to make clay pots to decorate and take home. The non-hardening clay will be used to learn the techniques such as pinching and rolling, and then the air drying clay will be used for the actual projects. We will let them dry, add some more style to them with paint, and spray with sealant to help them last forever. In order for students to see how art applies to real life, we will be doing these pots when the students are learning about Earth's resources in science class. We will talk about clay and what it is made of and where it comes from while we are working with the art.

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