Lesson
Profile:
Theme: Metamorphosis in Nature
Type of
Lesson:
Skills based with personal expression
Students were able to learn the about the
metamorphosis found in nature. Specifically, the life cycle of a butterfly was
addressed as a basis for the clay creation. Students first molded caterpillars,
or chrysalises out of clay. After each piece was glazed and fired, students
then unknowingly attached wings to exemplify the steps in the life cycle of a
butterfly.
The conceptual objective was to expose students to a visual means of expression where
they were able to create their own individual depiction of a butterfly.
Use
of terminology that related to the Molding Metamorphosis such as color,
texture, shape, smoothing, scoring, glazing, proportion, and metamorphosis were
reinforced or introduced.
This
lesson addressed the following state standards:
Students
were able to express their ideas of the spring season through dialogue. (Standard 1.1.4.D.1; Creative Process)
Students
were able to identify, discuss, and recall upon their
experiences of the change of spring. (Standard
1.3.4.D.4; Performance.)
Students
were able to apply and imitate their experiences of spring and
demonstrate those experiences through clay. (Standard 1.3.4.D.5; Performance.)
Students
were able to produce and construct their experiences of spring by
integrating appropriate techniques of artistic media. (Standard 1.3.4.D.1; Performance.)
Students
were able to analyze, compare, and evaluate the diversity
of artistic elements within the class artwork. (Standard 1.4.4.A.1; Aesthetic Responses)
In a world filled with sweet scents and
blue sky, lives the gentle, uplifting butterfly,
whose metamorphosis has this truth to
teach:
Our aspirations are within our reach.
For this fluttering flyer of soaring
worth was at one time a creature that crawled the earth.
When she climbed a plant and learned of
the sky, She looked down at the earth and wondered why
her destiny was to live on the land. Something
inside her did not understand.
'The sky is my home', every part
of her felt
‘How could crawling be the lot I’ve
been dealt?’
Keeping those thoughts safe, where they
could be found,
She slowly descended back to the ground.
When she found the right plant on which to
rest, She brilliantly wove a cocoon for her nest.
Inside the chrysalis, she went to sleep tucked
in with those thoughts that she wanted to keep...
...One sunny day, the cocoon came
unsealed.
Magically, a butterfly was revealed.
Seeing this miracle with my own eyes; of
caterpillars becoming butterflies,
brings real hope of the possibility of
the total transformation of me!
Like the caterpillar that crawls the
Earth,
We are destined for a divine rebirth.
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