Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Years 5 and 6 visual arts
Your students will:
explore the richness and diversity of Aboriginal art from New South Wales
reflect on personal experiences to create meaning in artworks
devise ways to join different materials when creating artworks.
VAS3.2: makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.
VAS3.4: communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.
HT3-2: describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time.
HT3-4: describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
For further syllabus connections in this creative class, please refer to Mapping Aboriginal Perspectives and Cross-Curriculum Content K-10 (PDF 300KB).
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) refers to the rights that Indigenous people have, and want to have, to protect their traditional arts and culture. Sometimes the words 'cultural heritage' are used to mean the same thing.
The following 2 links provide information to support teachers in the delivery of Aboriginal content:
This Creative Class has used content delivered as a part of the Home program to allow all students to explore Aboriginal artists from NSW.
The Home program is a partnership between Wiradjuri Elders and community members, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW Department of Education's The Arts Unit and the Art Gallery of NSW and connects schools to local Aboriginal artists, community, language and culture.
Home connects professional Aboriginal artists, students and teachers with local regional galleries and the Art Gallery of NSW to explore cultural practice and artmaking. Each year, rural and remote schools are invited to participate in the program.
For more information, please visit the The Arts Unit 'Home' program.
For more information and resources that connect to this program, visit the Art Gallery of NSW – Home: Aboriginal art from New South Wales.
Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.
Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.
Email: ask 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 a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Would you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this creative class?
Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.
Please include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.
History K-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.