This is a plaster tile project done as part of
a main lesson block on Egypt. Plaster was poured into a casserole dish (9" x 13"). After the plaster was
dried, it was broken into two pieces. The pieces were sanded (with the uneven shape left intact) until they
were smooth. Then the image of a goddess was lightly drawn using pencil. Lastly, the entire image was brought
to life using watercolor paints of fairly muted colors. The tile is intended to be representative of a piece of
artwork that may have broken off from a larger piece and was discovered later.
We had so much fun with creating a plaster image during
our block on Egypt that we did it again during our block on Ancient Greece. This is a tile similar to the one that was
done above, only of the goddess Athena. The colors used are intended to reflect the two-toned artwork (black and
gold) often found on ancient Greek vases.
During this same block, we also:
- visited a museum with artifacts from Egypt and ancient
Greece
- studied Greek mythology
- studied ancient terrain, including the major mountains, rivers,
and deserts
- drew maps of ancient lands
- introduced the concept of historical timelines (A.D. and B.C.)
- focused on aspects of cultural geography,
including people, clothing, shelter, family life, religion, and food
- created and ate various food from different ancient cultures
- experimented in creating dried papyrus scrolls
- read about ancient cultures, including India, Mesopotamia, and Persia
- told the stories of Buddha, Gilgamesh, and Krishna
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