Lesson Three – Patterns and Shapes

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and model some of the different ways of working with clay to produce the design for an Ancient Greece tile showing an aspect of life in the past.

The class can explain and demonstrate how to use different tools to make marks and indentations in clay reflecting life in Ancient Greece in the past.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model some of the different ways of working with clay to produce the design for an Ancient Greece tile showing an aspect of life in the past

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe examples of decorations used on Ancient Greek pots and a worksheet to follow steps when working in clay to produce the design for a tile reflecting an aspect of Ancient Greece life including some of the special characters from the civilization.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different ways of working with clay to produce the design for an Ancient Greece tile.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise shaping and modelling clay when making replica pots and jugs reflecting and illustrating life in the Ancient Greek civilization in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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