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Explore the life cycle of a butterfly through creative and performing arts
Explore the life cycle of a butterfly through creative and performing arts
Student dance, music and visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Preschool, Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 dance, music and visual arts
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
learn the 4 stages in the butterfly life cycle. Egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and butterfly (adult)
create artworks inspired by the different stages of the butterfly life cycle
sing songs connected to the theme
create and perform a dance movement sequence inspired by butterflies.
Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
1.3: Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities.
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
4.1: Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.
4.3: Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
5.1: Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.
5.2: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Visual arts
VAES1.1: makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
VAS1.1: makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
Drama
DRAES1.1: uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations.
DRAS1.1: takes on roles in drama to explore familiar and imagined situations.
Dance
DAS1.1: performs dances demonstrating expressive qualities and control over a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movement.
DAS1.2: explores and selects movement using the elements of dance to make dance express ideas, feelings or moods.
Music
MUES1.1: Participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUS1.1: Sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
Science K-6 Syllabus
Science K-6 Syllabus
STe-3LW-ST: explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things
ST1-4LW-S: describes observable features of living things and their environments
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Download and print this butterfly template for use in class as required.
butterfly template.docxCollection of student work
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
For further support on how to create these resources
Offline access
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Metamorphosis - @The Arts Unit Creative Classes.docxWould 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.
Teacher feedback
Teacher feedback
Third-party content attributions
Third-party content attributions
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 August 2020.
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2019, is licensed under CC BY 4.0, accessed 10 August 2020.
Science K-6 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2017, copied under s113P, accessed 10 August 2020.
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