Fun with flowers

Discover the creative and scientific art of botanical illustration and respond to drawing through poetry and music

Student visual arts, music and poetry writing resource developed by The Arts Unit

Year 5 and Year 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• examine the creative and scientific practice of botanical drawing

• create a botanical illustration

• write a cinquain poem

• compose a piece of percussion music

• practise botanical illustration skills by adding colour to a drawing.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

Visual Arts

• VAS3.1: Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.

• VAS3.4: Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

Music

• MUS3.2: Improvises, experiments, selects, combines and orders sound using musical concepts.

English K-10 Syllabus

• EN3-1A: Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features 

• EN3-8D: Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspeces of culture, are represented in texts.

Collection of student work 

• Google Form: create a Google Form with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload of any files they create. Email this form to your students with the link to the Creative Class and all your student responses will be collated in a google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your classes Google Classroom with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload any files they create.  

• MS Teams: create a quiz or an assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create. 

• Email: instruct your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. 

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used as a feedback board for you and your students to use.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students  through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard