Today's Classroom Activities :

Remembrance Plates Craft

Remembrance Plates
Social Studies/Art For centuries people have decorated plates with pictures of important people, places and favorite things. Much of history has been pieced together via the images on these plates. After showing the students pictures of such plates, give each student a heavy cardboard (not waxed) paper plate. Invite the students to sketch something of their time period that is worthy of being remembered, be it scenery or a facet of history. Provide tempera paint with which students can embellish their sketches. After the paint has dried, spray plates with polyurethane. Each student should write an explanation of his or her plate's painting on a card to display with the plate.

Have your students visit The Danbury Mint to view samples of different types of commemorative plates.

At Transferware Pottery Transformed an Industry your students can find a brief history about the popular blue and white ceramic dinner ware that became popular in Europe and the United States in the 18th century.

Get the definition for a plate and its history at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.