1. Topic-
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| Make Your Own Play Dough for Your Miniature Sculpture |
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2. Content-
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Measuring Cups
Flour
Salt
Vegetable Oil
Water
Food Coloring
Large mixing bowl
Small mixing bowl
Container with air tight lid
Add/Combine
Stir/Mix
Knead
Consistency
Dilute |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1. Students will successfully learn how to make their own play dough
for use in their art class.
2. The final product will be suitable for manipulation and construction
of a miniature sculpture. |
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4. Objectives-
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1. Students will be able to prepare for the project by setting up
their work station in a safe and organized manner.
2. Upon completion of teacher guided modeling of creating Play Dough,
students will be able repeat the process by following step-by-step
instructions from either a video or transcript.
3. Students will be able to accurately measure all of the required
ingredients for the Play Dough.
4. Students will be able to properly combine and mix the required
ingredients for the Play Dough.
5. Students will be able to clean up their work stations in a safe
and orderly manner. |
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5. Materials and Aids-
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For Each Student:
Plastic cutting boards (can be purchased from $1.00 stores and reused
for other projects)
Wooden cooking spoon
Checklist of Play Dough making recipe and procedures
For Teacher Workstation:
Measuring Cups
1-Cup, 1/3-Cup
Measuring Spoon
1-Tbsp.
Bucket of warm water with several sponges for cleanup
Waterless hand cleaner
For each Student:
3-Cups Flour
1/3-Cup Salt
2-Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1-Cup Water
7-10 drops Food Coloring
1-Large mixing bowl
1-Small mixing bowl
1-Medium size (4-Cups,32-oz, .95 L) Container with air tight lid |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1. Ask/Recall: How many students remember playing with 'store brought'
Play Dough in kindergarten and 1st grades? What did students create
with it during their play time?
2. Explain-What: Students will be doing: Students will learn how to
make their own Play Dough using household staples.
3. Explain-Why: In students' art class, there will be a unit on famous
sculptures and students will have an opportunity to express their
creativity by constructing a sculpture of their own. Store brought
Play Dough is expensive and it is less costly to make their own Play
Dough.
4. Explain-Where: Students will make the Play Dough at their workstations,
which is on their individual desks in their homeroom classroom.
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B. Development-
i) Show all ingredients at teacher's workstation. Demonstrate steps
1-9 below.
ii) Explain that the teacher's workstation is where students will
receive their ingredients for the Play Dough.
iii) Explain that the ingredient retrieval process is to be carried
out in an orderly fashion as each student is called to come up to
the teacher's workstation. For safety's sake, he or she is to walk,
not run to the workstation. He or she is to bring a bowl for their
ingredients. Explain that to avoid spills and dropped ingredients,
the student will do one bowl at a time. The large bowl for flour,
salt and vegetable oil ingredients will be done first, and then the
small bowl of water and food-coloring will be done second. Each student
will walk back to his or her workstation with the large bowl and wait
for a callback for small bowl ingredients.
iv) Explain that to avoid missing a step in the Play Dough making
process, each student will use a checklist and check off each step
as they complete it.
Play Dough Making Directions
1. Place plastic cutting board on desk to protect it from water, food-coloring
and final product.
2. Set both large and small bowls next to each other.
3. Measure out and combine 3-cups of flour, 1/3-cup of salt and 2-tbsp
of vegetable oil in large bowl and mix thoroughly. Checklist check-off.
4. Pour 1-cup of water in the small bowl and then add 7-10 drops of
food coloring to the water. Mix it well, adding more food coloring
if a darker Play Dough color is desired. Checklist check-off.
5. Add a small amount of the water to the combined ingredients in
the large bowl and stir until the water is absorbed. Repeat process
three times until all of the water is absorbed into the mixture. Checklist
check-off.
6. Remove Play Dough from the bowl and place it on the plastic cutting
board; knead the dough until it reaches the consistency of store brought
Play Dough. Checklist check-off.
7. Place Play Dough in an air-tight and sealed container; container
will prevent the Play Dough from drying out. Checklist check-off.
8. Write name on top cover of container and place container in designated
storage area. Checklist check-off.
9. Clean up workstation with wet sponges in bucket at teacher's workstation.
Wash hands with waterless hand cleaner at teacher's workstation. Checklist
check-off.
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C. Practice-
1. Place plastic cutting board on desk to protect it from water,
food-coloring and final product.
2. Set both large and small bowls next to each other.
3. Measure out and combine 3-cups of flour, 1/3-cup of salt and 2-tbsp
of vegetable oil in large bowl and mix thoroughly. Checklist check-off.
4. Pour 1-cup of water in the small bowl and then add 7-10 drops of
food coloring to the water. Mix it well, adding more food coloring
if a darker Play Dough color is desired. Checklist check-off.
5. Add a small amount of the water to the combined ingredients in
the large bowl and stir until the water is absorbed. Repeat process
three times until all of the water is absorbed into the mixture. Checklist
check-off.
6. Remove Play Dough from the bowl and place it on the plastic cutting
board; knead the dough until it reaches the consistency of store brought
Play Dough. Checklist check-off.
7. Place Play Dough in an airtight and sealed container; container
will prevent the Play Dough from drying out. Checklist check-off.
8. Write name on top cover of container and place container in designated
storage area. Checklist check-off.
9. Clean up workstation with wet sponges in bucket at teacher's workstation.
Wash hands with waterless hand cleaner at teacher's workstation. Checklist
check-off.
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D. Independent Practice-
1. Second batch of Play dough will be made independently under teacher's
supervision.
2. Checklist of procedures--did student correctly perform all nine-steps
safely and correctly?
3. Did the final product turn out as expected?
4. Did the student properly follow through the project by cleaning
up his or her workstation and hands? |
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E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-
1. For extra viewing of a demonstration, student can view teacher's
video recorded demonstration on the class computer.
2. Students have the option to receive printed instructions to aid
in memory retention.
3. Extra large utensils and non-slip aids for the bowls will be provided
for students who are physically challenged. |
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F. Checking for understanding-
1st Prompt/Question: For safety's sake, when we come to the teacher's
workstation to receive our ingredients, how will we come to the station?
Answer: Walk!
2nd Prompt/Question: When we come to the teacher's workstation for
the first time for the dry ingredients, which bowl do we bring? Answer-large
bowl.
3rd Prompt/Question: When we come to the teacher's workstation for
the second time for the liquid ingredients, which bowl do we bring?
Answer: small bowl
4th Prompt/Question: how much flour does your Play dough recipe need?
Answer: 3-cups
5th Prompt/Question: How much salt does the play dough recipe need?
Answer: 1/3-cup
6th Prompt/Question: How much vegetable oil is added to the dry mixture
of flour and salt? Answer: 2-tbsp
7th Prompt/Question: How much water does the play dough recipe need?
Answer:1-cup
8th Prompt/Question: If you want your play dough's color to be light,
do you use more or less drops of food coloring in the water? Why?
Answer: less because the color of water molecules is diluted.
9th Prompt/Question: If you want your play dough's color to be darker,
do you use more or less drops of food coloring in the water? Why?
Answer: more because the color of water molecules is denser.
10th Prompt/Question: What is the process of 'working' the dough to
its final consistency called? Answer: kneading |
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G. Closure-
1. Review all steps of making Play Dough.
2. Show samples of other students' Play Dough to show the diversity
of color choices.
3. Praise students for a 'job well done' and remind students that
the Play Dough will be held in storage until it is time for its usage
in their art class. |
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7. Evaluation-
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1. Student Checklist: Procedures check-off.
2. Student evaluation: Was each student satisfied with his or her
finished product made from independent practice? If student was not
satisfied with finished product, what could he or she do differently
to achieve a satisfactory product outcome? |
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