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create arts works that communicate ideas (AC9ADRFC01)

Elaborations
  • creating arts works in a range of forms to communicate ideas from lived personal or social experiences; for example, creating a dance or scenes showing favourite activities such as games; using digital devices to record their peers playing a game and creating a voice-over that describes whats happening; composing a song or chant about a favourite food or activity; drawing a home scene of people and animals
  • creating works in response to inspiration from sources such as play, imagination, observation, literature, artworks from their cultures and communities or arts knowledge and skill development activities
  • extending and varying known songs, chants or rhymes; for example, changing words, interpreting without using voice, adding movements/actions or improvising rhythm patterns as accompaniment
  • manipulating objects, puppets, 2D images and/or available technologies to create or retell stories
  • devising a chant/rap that a character from an animated series, a text or a fictional hero could use to communicate a health or sustainability message or to learn the steps in a process; recording the chant/rap using an available digital device and sharing live or via a school-managed space such as a learning management system
  • repurposing materials and objects such as clothing or packing boxes as starting points for imagining and developing scenes and scenarios; for example, using packing boxes to create an imagined environment or vehicle
  • considering as a class the characters and situations associated with a story and then re-imagining them by asking questions of the story, such as “What’s up?”, “What happens next?” or “What else might/could happen?" to support the development of their own socio-dramatic or miniature worlds play
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
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Drama (Arts)

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