@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Teacher visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Years 7 and 8 visual arts
Students will learn how Shaun Tan uses real and imagined worlds, along with various real-life experiences, to develop his artworks. Students will then explore artmaking in the subjective and cultural frames, using their imaginations and cultural and social perspectives to develop an illustration of a character.
Your students will:
explore a story told through illustration
analyse the artwork using the conceptual framework
develop an illustration of a character
communicate through illustration.
4.1: uses a range of strategies to explore different artmaking conventions and procedures to make artworks.
4.2: explores the functions of and relationships between artist – artwork – world – audience.
4.5: investigates ways to develop meaning in their artworks.
EN4-1A: responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure.
EN4-5C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts.
EN4-8D: identifies, considers and appreciates cultural expression in texts.
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.
Visual Arts 7-10 Syllabus, © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2003, copied under s113P, accessed 10 May 2020.