Lesson Four – Pot Design

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and illustrate the design for a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek culture and stories that formed part of the civilization in the past.
The class can practise using a range of different techniques to shape clay when making a thumb pot to model some of the artefacts that were made and used by the Ancient Greeks.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and illustrate the design for a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek culture and stories that formed part of the civilization in the past
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe examples of story scenes used as decorations on Ancient Greek pots, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to produce the shape of a pot that might have been used by the Ancient Greeks and a template to select and record the design for a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek culture and stories in the past.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to illustrate the design for a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek culture and stories in the past.
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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