The following ready-to-use educational tools are available for teachers to access, print, and use with students in the classroom. Teachers can adapt, change or transform the tools according to their needs. The following sequence can be followed as a continuous lesson or separated into individual activities.
Pre-Lesson Discussion:
Object or Sculpture? (PDF)
These questions concerning objects and sculpture will generate discussion and prepare students for the Instant Double lesson.
Introductory Activity:
Texture Hunt — Collecting Textures and Impressions (PDF)
This activity allows students to explore surfaces in their surroundings and make casts of objects and textures.
Lesson Plan:
The Instant Double: Making a Cast Using Household Objects and Materials (PDF)
Students make molds and casts of found coins using aluminum foil and a plaster mixture. Lesson Rubric (PDF). To extend the lesson students cast objects from their everyday lives, steps and details are included in the following handout Casting Objects (PDF).
Wrap-up Activity:
The Doubled Double (PDF)
Students create an observational still-life drawing based on a composition of their cast creations.
Conclusion Discussion:
Casting Spaces (PDF)
These questions ask students to reflect on sculpture and the casting process.
Content created by Rhonda Weppler in consultation with OAG staff.
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