CLAY MODELS

:Clay Model (link task 2)

Approach: Independant task

Time: 40 minutes (each student)

Level: Year 4 and year 8

Resources: Small block of clay

Each student worked with standard sized blocks of clay. The clay was particularly suitable for modelling. The teacher administrator explained to the student the context for the images they were to create. At the conclusion of the task the student's model was recorded on video film for marking purposes. The model was placed on a small turntable which enabled a 360Ľ filming.

51% of year 4 students' clay models and 60% of year 8 students' models were marked in the middle range of 3 or 4.

Key attributes (1 low - 4 high)

Qualities

mean score

expressiveness

model appropriate to task; tells a story; sense of movement; interaction and arrangement of parts; imagination.

2.2

2.5

3 dimensionality

roundness - figures rounded rather than flat; major parts "modelled" (eg. beyond spheres or cylinders); qualities present when viewed from all directions.

2.2

2.5

detail

appropriate features added to the figures; appropriate decoration and texture.

2.1

2.3

structure

strength; joins.

2.1

2.4

Global Rating (1 low - 6 High)

2.7

3.1

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