Visual arts / Year 5 and 6

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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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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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Traditionally artworks were representations of real life objects and environments. When you looked at these works you could usually identify what the artist was representing. How is abstract art different from this? Watch this video to see an example of an abstract painting, then have a go at creating one yourself!

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This database features a selection of Australian artworks from QAGOMA. The searchable database provides artwork images, background information about the artist and the artwork, classroom activities, a glossary of key terms and curriculum alignment information for teachers. Search results can be refined by theme, period, ...

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The five films show the key stages of a simple costume workshop which was delivered in a British school. The workshop begins with the introduction of the Cinderella story. The group then get an insight into the research methods of a professional designer before going on to design and make costumes to fit them.

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This lesson plan introduces the idea of making sculpture from natural materials found in the landscape around you. Firstly watch artist Heather Toulson demonstrate how to work with found materials at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and then put the ideas into practice.

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Learn how the Impressionists approached painting and see how some students fared in a workshop led by artist John Wiltshire in Cambridge. The activity has five videos outlining the steps to producing an Impressionist style painting using acrylic paint on a canvas ground.

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A lesson plan inspired by the work of sculptor Erin Dickson and painter George Shaw who both make work about ordinary landscapes that have meaning for them. This lesson can be used by students to develop drawing skills and use of sketchbooks to develop ideas, to produce creative work, exploring their ideas and/or to evaluate ...

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This lesson plan is an introduction to Conceptual art focusing on primarily on Work No.88. A sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball by Martin Creed. This sculpture, made in 1995, is exactly as it says in the title, a ball of paper crumpled into a ball. It challenges the ideas of what sculpture is and demands the viewer ...

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This unit of work has been written to support the book Albert Namatjira in which award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira tells the life story of his great-grandfather, Albert Namatjira, one of Australia’s best-known artists. This unit includes practical ideas for using this book in your classroom.