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I am an inventor lesson

  • TLF-IDA002720

In this lesson, students explore the life, work and times of Rube Goldberg. The lesson uses Rube Goldberg’s work to teach students about simple machines, how they function and their design principles. Working in groups, the students then design and create a Rube Goldberg machine that can complete a simple task. Students ...

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What a stretch!

  • TLF-IDM025926

Investigate the unique physical features of the giraffe and explore how giraffes are represented in art. Create your own giraffe artwork.

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When is a stick not a stick?

  • TLF-IDM025947

Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems. Students respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus to explore elements of drama and create characters. Students will develop their expressive skills through movement and voice. Students also create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.

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Inspire me …

  • TLF-IDM025944

Using stimulus material to inspire art and music. Learn about plastics in the ocean and what oceanographers have learnt through seascape artwork. Create an artwork based on a seascape and plastic waste, Explore graphic notation and create a city soundscape with an artwork as a stimulus.

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Scarecrow dancing

  • TLF-IDM025754

Students explore dance through scarecrow images and movements. They engage in creative play and create simple images.

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Fun with flowers

  • TLF-IDM025958

Students discover the creative and scientific art of botanical illustration and respond to the drawing through poetry and music.

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Cat-toons!

  • TLF-IDM025912

Students learn about cartooning techniques to create cat cartoons inspired by the Cat in the Hat.

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Metamorphosis

  • TLF-IDM025969

Using drama and visual arts students explore a world of play and imagination where nothing is as ordinary as it seems.

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Shake the papaya tree

  • TLF-IDM025837

Find out more about papaya trees and then learn to draw one! Learn a song about climbing a tree and some movements to perform as you sing the song. Explore how to find the beat in the music.

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 5, Year 6 The Arts

  • TLF-IDM025093

This unit uses dance, drama, visual arts and music to communicate student-created safety messages. Using a community-based scenario, students devise an improvised drama and choreograph a dance to highlight the importance of safe track-side behaviours; they use artworks to explore the effect of colour before creating a cartoon-based ...

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Finding your frame

  • TLF-IDM025918

Developing a concept by making artworks from found objects. Explore how artist, James Powditch, assembles found objects to create artworks inspired by his love of film.

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The dot

  • TLF-IDM025934

Students will listen to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds and create artworks of real and imagined things inspired by the story. They also sing a song with simple actions.

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Brushing up on animals

  • TLF-IDM025978

Students discover techniques for drawing animals and painting an artwork.

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Bird's eye art

  • TLF-IDM025773

A visual arts activity for students using aerial perspective and abstract forms.

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Autumn leaves

  • TLF-IDM025906

Explore dance, art and music through a song about Autumn leaves. Make some art works, dance like a leaf and learn to play the song on a keyboard instrument.

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Be a friend

  • TLF-IDM025960

Explore dance, drama and visual arts through different elements of friendship.

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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 The Arts

  • TLF-IDM025092

This unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety message in a performance.

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Making waves with Hokusai

  • TLF-IDM025951

Students create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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Chicken challenge

  • TLF-IDM025772

Learn to use two-dimensional shapes to create a chicken artwork.

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Going on an adventure

  • TLF-IDM025955

Explore drama and visual arts activities using an adventure story as a stimulus.

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