Thursday, April 18, 2013

Glass Blowing Explored

Many of you were confused when we studied Jamestown glass as to what glassblowing was. I added two videos to help clear up this confusion. 

Watch this video, then comment with three things it makes you wonder.

Glass Blowing Explored from Ken G. Stewart on Vimeo.

  I WONDER if any of your WONDERINGS from the first video could be answered with this video?

Instructional Glass Blowing - Glass Blowing 101 from Michael L. Mann on Vimeo.

15 comments:

  1. What was the flamethrower for?
    What was the pole for?
    Where are they?

    -Austin

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  2. Who were the men?
    What were the poles for?
    When did they do it?
    Where were they?
    -Cole

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  3. 1. Why are they doing that?

    2. Who are they?

    3. Why do they cut the glass?

    -erica

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  4. How long does it take to make the glass?

    How do they get the glass of of the pole?

    Where are the creating the glass?

    -Emily

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  5. What is glassblowing?
    How do they do glassblowing?
    Who does glassblowing?
    -David

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  6. How do they make glass?
    Who made the glass?
    How do the get the glass on the stick?
    -Tanner

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  7. How do they get the glass off of the metal stick?

    Why do they use fire?

    How do they shape the glass?

    -C.J.

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  8. Glass Blowing Explored
    What are they doing?
    Why do they have fire?
    When did they do this?
    -Kabriah

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  9. Who is the man?
    What do you need newspaper for?
    Where are they?

    -Austin

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  10. What if they are doing their job wrong and they make a mistake and make the glass explode?

    How long does it take to make the object in the video?

    Who first had the idea to create the glass blower?


    -Sherah

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  11. How are they making that?

    Where are they?

    Who are the men doing that?

    -Tylor

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  12. I also wonderd.

    Why were they doing it?
    -

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  13. What did they use the glass bottles for?

    Why did he use a pole to put the glass bottles in an oven?

    Where did them people come from?

    -Tyler

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  14. Why do they use a wet piece of news paper to help craft the shape of the glass?

    How many tools do they have to use?

    Why is the man doing a review?

    -Anthony

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    Replies
    1. I learned that the man is making a preview because he wants more people to learn more about glass.

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