Totem Pole                Group Work

Lesson 1…Design, plan, draw and decide materials

Lesson 2…Start creating and get basic structure started

Lesson 3…Continue the building

Lesson 4…Painting and basic coloring

Lesson 5…Details and final finishing

Lesson 6…Written task/poem and arranging into a class display...Present your item to the class/school in a display in the area outside the Art Room.

Outcome…Through design and exploration, students create and build a totem that represents a theme of their own choice.

Explore…Design...Experiment…Create…Complete

• In a group you have to create, design and build a totem Pole, that may look like something and have one or more of the following… person, animal, alien, heads, bird,

Or

• An abstract sculpture, which has many shapes and forms, built together.

• You may create parts and then link them together

Or

• You may all work as a whole on the one shape

Materials

1. Paper Mache…. create shape with chicken wire, then cover with strips of newspaper soaked in thinned glue and build up your shape
2. Limestone…each section created and then placed one on top of each other ...or talc stone
3. Clay...using the hollows with paper, (method used to make the pig), create your totem
4. Boxes…must be covered totally with paper mache and moulded and shaped and painted.

Essay or Poem: Written Task

Write a description of your totem and what it represents

Or

Write a poems or song about your totem