UNIT
1: EMPTY BOWLS PROJECT
Food Inspired Slump/Hump Mold Bowls
*PROJECT
GOAL: The Empty Bowls
Project is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness
in the fight to end hunger. Students will participate in Washingtonville High
School’s second Annual Empty Bowls Project by creating ceramic bowls inspired
by their favorite foods. Through the introduction of videos, discussions, and
online research, students will learn how their favorite foods are farmed,
processed, and sold, as well as why people, even in our local communities, are
struggling with food insufficiency. Students will be invited to sell their
bowls at the school’s Empty Bowls Dinner event in March of 2017 to help raise
money for the Hudson Valley Food Bank and the Country Kids Food Pantry of
Washingtonville. Students
will learn to prepare clay, make basic slabs, and use the slump/hump mold method to create their bowl forms. Other
techniques such as carving, stamping, relief, sculpture, and glazing will be
introduced and used to add color, dimension, texture, pattern and sculptural
forms to these bowls.
The introductory lesson to this unit includes 2 activities that help set the stage for the unit theme, favorite foods.
FOOD MEDITATION: The first activity is a food meditation exercise in which the students were guided through a 5-minute visual meditation. They were asked to visualize their favorite food or meal and image what their food tastes, feels, smells and looks like. Then they were asked to write or draw about what they imagined and share their responses with the class.
FOOD SENSORY LESSON: The second activity was a food sensory experiment. 18 mystery food samples were places on the student desks and the students were asked to move about the room and taste, touch, smell, and look at each sample and then write down their reactions. The big "reveal" of the mystery food samples happened at the end of class as we discussed our reactions and findings.
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