This document summarizes a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) art lesson for 5th grade students in Italy. The lesson topic is decorating Greek vases inspired by ancient Greek pottery designs. The goals are for students to understand ancient Greek art subjects, learn about daily Greek life from vase pictures, and create their own Greek-style vase design. Students will experiment with techniques like the colors red, black and white used in ancient Greece. They will assess differences between ancient Greek vases and 21st century designs. The lesson incorporates cooperative learning, presentations, and using materials like paper to recreate Greek artistic techniques.

1. CLIL Art Lesson
5
th
grade ICS Maredolce primary school, Italy
Topic: Greek vase “let's play at the museum”
Painting: Decorate vases with picture that will tell people in the future what life was like
in the 21st Century (inspired byAncient Greek Vases)
Aims: educate to a multicultural and multidisciplinary; approach to knowledge increase
the motivation both to learning a foreign language and to learning to other subjects
through the foreign language; reconstruct the past using sources of various types;
compare aspects characterizing the different companies studied also in relation to the
present.
Goals: Understand the names of subjects related to the art of ancient Greece. learn about
daily life in Ancient Greece from the pictures on their vases; create their own vase design
in the style of the Ancient Greek;
Student knows:
- Vases have got red and black figures;
- Greek mythology has got a lot of stories.
- Greek loved making patterns especially in vase;
- Experiment the coloring technique used by the ancient Greeks
-Apply knowledge about different artistic compositions in practice
- Use a sheet of paper/ canvas /clay pots to apply the Greek artistic techniques using
mainly the colours red-black-white;
- Assess their classmates artistic works, justifying their opinions between vases over 2000
years ago and the 21st century
Methods: cooperative learning, verbal, presentation, practice
Materials and tools: bristol board, paper, crayons, pencil colours, felt-tip pens, scissors,
glue stick.; tool web2.0 (tagul)
Course of the lesson:
1)Introductions:
brainstorming about “The archeological museum Salinas ((visited by students before that
clil art activity)
Teacher makes a briefly presentation about the Archological Museum Salinas
The "Antonio Salinas" Regional Archaeological Museum is based in Palermo and has
one of the richest archaeological collections in Italy, evidence of Sicilian history in all its
phases ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Inside are preserved relics and
artifacts of the peoples that have determined the history of the island: Phoenicians, Punic,