@The Arts Unit Creative Classes
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Create artworks inspired by the book 'The Dot'
Create artworks inspired by the book 'The Dot'
Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Preschool and Kindergarten visual arts resource
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
listen to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds
create artworks of real and imagined things inspired by the story
sing a song with simple actions.
Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia
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.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
You might be interested in joining in International Dot Day with your class.
Collection of student work
Collection of student work
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.
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.
The Dot - @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 May 2020.
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2019, is licensed under CC BY 4.0, accessed10 May 2020.
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