Efland-Cheeks Elementary
3rd Grade Student Evaluation Questions
2018 Natural Clay Mosaic Residency
Teaching Artist: Jason Abide

1. We talked about many types of clays that have plastic as an ingredient, but we used something different, natural clay.
How is natural clay made?


2. What must you do to finish a natural clay piece?


3. What is slip made from?


4. Is there something wrong with our map? If not, why does our map look different from the Mercator map?


5. What is Python?


6. This is the computer program I used to help plan our mosaic:

1. break off a square of the image
2. choose a light and dark color
3. look at each pixel in the square
4. IF: it is a light pixel
- THEN: color it the light color
IF: it is a dark pixel
- THEN: color it the dark color

Which number contains the conditionals in the program?
(Remember we talked about getting a candy bar on one condition)


7. What is a pixel?


8. Will you try working in Scratch? What could you make?


9. What was your favorite part of the residency?


Thanks for your hard work on the mosaic!