For this lesson we got to create our very own monsters out of clay! We used to air dry clay, so in the photo you will see the bottom of the monster is not painted so that the water can escape from the bottom. This is a very important note to make when performing this lesson.
Step 1: First, we had to plan out our monster by drawing a blueprint, sort of, for what we planned to do when we were given the clay. This allowed us to think and plan out our project before even opening the clay, which prevented drying.
Step 2: Next, the teachers taught us different ways to work with clay so that we could create whatever kind of monster base that we wanted. They showed us how to slab, wedge, and pinch pot the clay. I use the pinch pot method to create my monster, however other people used different options such as the wedge.
Step 3: After creating our base the teachers told us that we then had to add and subtract something from it. I subtracted spikes from the back of my monster and added an extra eye and a tongue! All of our monsters were required to have a face, so the mouth and basic eyes didn’t count as adding.
Due to the basics of this lesson, with adding and subtracting I think that a good extension lesson would be to have the students demonstrate adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing all on their monster! An example would be to subtract one of the eyes, leaving your monster with one eye, and add teeth to give his mouth originality. The students could then multiply the arms and give the monster four total arms, and divide a tongue, giving him two! I love that there’s a lot of creativity that can come from this, because students can do this in so many different ways. You can then require them to write an explanation telling you what they added, subtracted, divided and multiplied. As long as they have a good explanation, and try their best, this could be a great project that could end with so many different monsters! A standard to connect the math aspect could be 4.OA.A1-2.
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