@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Year 3 to Year 6 visual arts
Your students will:
examine the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai
create artworks inspired by Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa
use perspective and colour theory techniques when creating artworks
explore with Google Art and Culture - Art Colouring Book interactive experiment
create a Haiku poem inspired by their artwork.
Stage 2
VAS2.1: Represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful* by choosing among aspects of subject matter.
VAS2.4: Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques.
Stage 3
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.
Google Forms: 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. As students submit their responses, they will be automatically collected in a Google Sheets document. You can access this document by clicking on the 'Responses' tab in the form editor.
Google Assignments: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.
Microsoft 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.
Flip: create a video conversation. Flip is a website that allows teachers to create 'grids'. 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.
Google Jamboard: create an interactive whiteboard that 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.
Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2016, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.