Ceramics

What is ceramics?

• Objects made from slip

• Objects made from clay

• Objects made from glass

• Objects made from plaster

Where does natural clay come from?

• Crayola

• the sky

• the earth/ground

• from trees

Who were the first people who made ceramic pots?

• Ancient Chinese

• Cavemen

• Jomon People of Japan

• Singaporeans

When were Ceramics first invented?

• about 10 years ago

• about 100 years ago

• about 1000 years ago

• about 10 000 years ago

The procedure of forming and shaping clay by squeezing the clay between your thumb and finger.

• pinch
• coil
• slab
• roll

A technique that uses long ropes of clay to make pottery:

• scoring

• coiling

• slipping

• wedging

What is this handbuilding technique called?

• Coil

• Slab

• Pinch

• Thrown on the pottery wheel

Coil, slab, and ______ are basic hand building methods.

• construction

• pinch

• form

• slip

The roughening of the surface of wet clay in order to attach another piece of wet clay

• coiling

• slipping

• slab

• scoring

If you don't want your clay to fall apart, you should...?

• Hope and wish they stick together

• Score and slip the two pieces together

• Join the two pieces using water

• Press the two pieces together very tightly