Media arts / Year 3 and 4

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify intended purposes and meanings of media artworks, using media arts key concepts, starting with media artworks in Australia including media artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAMAR061)

Elaborations
  • identifying meaning and describing representations in media artworks from different social, cultural or historical contexts, for example, different ways traditional stories are retold using media technologies
  • comparing media artworks made for different purposes using appropriate language, and identifying possible differences in audiences’ interpretations
  • Considering viewpoints – evaluations: For example – What is similar or different to my school/home in a television representation of school/home?
  • examining media artworks in their community and comparing these to other media artworks commemorating different people, times and cultures
  • writing about and discussing with others the meaning of their own media artworks using appropriate language
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Settings (Narratives),  Themes (Texts),  Aboriginal art,  Australian art,  Torres Strait Islander art,  Media arts

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