Ceramics Pre-Assessment

What is slip?

• When you fall on a banana in Mario Kart

• Liquid clay

• Clay that you can model and mold

• A type of glue

Clay that has NO water left and has not been fired is...

• Leather hard

• bisque

• bone dry

• slip

What is glaze?

• A donut topping

• A liquid we use to attach pieces of clay together

• A liquid we apply to our work that when fired, melts and becomes glasslike

• a liquid we put on unfired clay

Clay that doesn't have much moisture/water left. This stage of clay is good for carving.

• Plastic

• Bone Dry

• Leather Hard

• Bisqueware

Clay that has been fired twice OR glazed and ready to be fired again.

• Glazeware

• Bisqueware

• Plastic

• Bone Dry

You need to slip and score all pieces of clay before attaching them.

• True

• False

Where do we fire our ceramic work?

• An oven

• A kiln

• A microwave

• A fireplace

You can attach wet clay to dry clay.

• True

• False

This stage of clay is workable; we can shape and model it.

• plastic

• slip

• bone dry

• leather hard

Clay that has been fired once in the kiln. Now it is ceramic.

• glazeware

• bone dry

• coil

• bisqueware