Slab Fish in Clay
Elementary School Lesson: Slab Fish in Clay In 2019, I was given the opportunity to design and teach a clay lesson in Fox Prairie Elementary School in Stoughton, WI. The 2nd and 3rd grade students were tasked with planning, creating, and responding to the lesson's major objective: the mastery of physical texture and simulated texture definitions and concepts. Simulated texture is often referred to as "visual texture," a more relatable subject-specific vocabulary term which I intentionally chose for this lesson. The lesson lasted four days, each day having a specific objective in mind. Day one, we had a discussion about fish and introduced some terminology. I researched the fish that populated a lake that borders Stoughton, Lake Kegonsa. We began talking about those fish both as a class and in a small "turn and talk." We had a good time describing exactly what a fish texture was, as some students felt that fish were "slimy," while so...