PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the life and political impact of Henry Clay.
Museum Network (UK)
Wallace Collection: Material World: Clay
Interactive investigation about how artists use clay explains where clay comes from and how it processed and decorated.
Other
Silicon Valley Art Museum: Clay Beads [Pdf]
An online lesson plan for getting your hands dirty! The student will learn all about making beads from clay and receive ideas on what to do with them after they are done.
Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Art: Digging for Clay
A selection of letters, writings, photographs, interviews and other primary sources documenting American artists working in clay.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Three Senatorial Giants: Clay, Calhoun and Webster
Read about these three titans of the Senate from 1812 until their deaths in the 1850s. Their last struggle against each other was the issue of slavery. See how Henry Clay, the great compromiser, offered one last compromise to try to keep...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: Henry Clay: Review of the Debate on the Compromise Bills
Henry Clay's speech in the Senate in support of the Compromise of 1850 and the importance of preserving the Union.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: Henry Clay
Collection of primary resource material includes Henry Clay's, "A General Review of the Debate on the Compromise Bills," U.S. Senate, July 22, 1850. With questions for discussion.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to the Clay Marble [Pdf]
This excellent resource presents a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Minfong Ho's "Clay Marble." Also provides analysis over the novel's background, context, author information, and study questions and aids.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Play Clay
Look at all the fun you can have with modeling clay. Includes recipe for making your own at home. Book has audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Other
Henry Clay Memorial Foundation: Biography and Timeline
The official site for the Henry Clay Estate presents a biography and a timeline of important events in Clay's life. Other topics of interest: Henry Clay the Statesman, the Attorney, the Farmer, Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. Click on...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tar Bucket and Pipe Clay
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication Tar-bucket and Pipe-clay by J. Percy Groves, a book of children's fiction.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.md Box of Clay
This task provides an opportunity to compare the relative volumes of boxes in order to calculate the mass of clay required to fill them. Aligns with 5.MD.C.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Jackson vs. Clay and Calhoun
Two very important politicians in the Age of Jackson were Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Andrew Jackson detested both for personal and political reasons. Read about the relationship between these two men individually and Andrew Jackson.
Native American Art and Technology
Native Tech: Pottery and Clay
Find out how the Northeast Woodland Indians used clay to make pottery. From the index you can find out about the kinds of pottery, the development of shapes, the designs, and how the pottery was made.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History
Clay Shirky shows how social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, thus changing the nature of politics. [15:49]
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Compromise of 1850
Find the various parts of the Compromise of 1850, proposed by Henry Clay, that extended slavery in some cases, prohibited in others, and added California as a free state. A clear chart shows what parts of the law were beneficial to the...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Betty Woodman
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Betty Woodman is described here along with information on her contributions to art through clay sculpture.
Other
Big Ceramic Store: Ceramic Tips
This site provides a series of seventy-four tips on ceramics. The tips range anywhere from using resists and recycling clay to decorating with oxides and calculating the cost of firing on electric kiln.
New York Times
New York Times: Feats of Clay
Watch this short commentary about the character development of the people and creatures from the claymation film "Wallace and Gromit Includes images of how the clay characters were made.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Colors of Clay in Athenian Vases
An examination of unique ceramics made by the ancient Greeks. Be sure to watch the video of how an ancient Athenian cup is made.
Curated OER
A View on Cities: New Orleans: Henry Clay Statue
Henry Clay Statue, Lafayette Square (New Orleans)
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Glazed Clay Bowl
This glazed clay bowl has a conical body supported on a high base. The bowl is widest at the top and narrows towards the base. Bowls of this sort were used to make yoghurt (zabadi) and were known as "zebdiyya."
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Mouth of a Clay Jar
The upper part of a clay jar including the handle and part of the mouth. The interesting thing about this piece is the jar filter, which separated the body from the opening. The filter is perforated in the form of a bird.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Plate Made of Red Clay
A plate made of red clay; it is broken at one side and part of it is missing. The rim slopes slightly towards the center and there is a ridge underneath that forms the base.
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