Print and complete the worksheet. Then assess yourself using the rubric provided.

Visit the linked sites about pottery making and clay and also search the internet for other "clay" and "pottery" sites. You will want to bookmark URL addresses that you may want to return to later in this unit. Bookmark all that look interesting to you. That will make it easier to find them later.

Prepare a report on what you have found by:

1. recording the URL (web address) and name of the sites you have used in this report,

2. reporting on what you have learned about clay. Answer these questions.

2.1 What are the main ingredients in clay and what purpose does each kind serve?

2.2 What materials raise the firing temperature of clay?

2.3 What materials lower the firing temperature of clay?

2.4 What materials make the clay smooth and sticky?

2.5 What happens to the clay when it is fired?

ASSESSMENT RUBRIC FOR CLAY REPORT

You can explain what clay is and describe some of its physical and chemical properties.

Pottery Ideas

Beginning:
You name the basic ingredients of clay. You name two or three physical or chemical properties of clay.

Competent:
You name and describe the basic ingredients in clay and how the combinations of these ingredients produce different kinds of clay. You name more than three physical and/or chemical properties of clay. You tell about the effect of firing upon clay.

Advanced:
You describe the basic ingredients in clay and how different clay formulas produce different clay bodies. You describe in detail the physical and chemical properties in clay. You describe in detail the effect of firing upon clay.

Writing Conventions

Beginning:
Your writing demonstrates little control of standard writing conventions and has frequent, significant errors that impede readability, such as: punctuation and spelling errors, incorrect punctuation, errors in grammar and usage.

Competent:
Your writing demonstrates control of standard writing conventions (e.g., punctuation, spelling, capitalization, paragraph breaks, grammar and usage).

Advanced:
Your writing demonstrates strong control of standard writing conventions (e.g., punctuation, spelling, capitalization, paragraph breaks, grammar and usage)and uses them effectively to enhance communication. Errors are so few and so minor that they do not impede readability.