Digital @ The Arts Unit Creative Classes
Autumn leaves
Teacher notes
Use autumn leaves as stimulus to engage in creative and performing arts
Student visual arts, dance and music resource developed by The Arts Unit
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 visual arts, dance and music
What will your students learn?
In the 3 lessons, your students will:
Visual arts
collect leaves to use as artworks
create artworks inspired by autumn leaves
draw leaves and use various applications for colour and texture.
Dance
copy movements inspired by falling autumn leaves
create their own dance movements
listen to music to create movements inspired by the music and falling autumn leaves.
Music
learn a basic melody about autumn leaves
play the melody on an instrument or music program
sing the words to the melody.
Syllabus outcomes
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Early Stage 1
Visual Arts
VAES1.1: makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
VAES1.2: experiments with a range of media in selected forms.
Music
MUES1.1: participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUES1.2: creates own rhymes, games, songs and simple compositions.
MUES1.4: listens to and responds to music.
Dance
DAES1.1: participates in dance activities and demonstrates an awareness of body parts, control over movement and expressive qualities.
DAES1.2: explores movement in response to a stimulus to express ideas, feelings or moods.
Stage 1
Visual Arts
VAS1.1: make artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
VAS1.2: use the forms to make artworks according to varying requirements.
Music
MUS1.1: sings, plays and moves to a range of music, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
MUS1.2: explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
MUS1.3: uses symbol systems to represent sounds.
MUS1.4: responds to a range of music, expressing likes and dislikes and the reasons for these choices.
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
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
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
Offline access
Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Autumn leaves - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docxWould you like to have your school promoted and your students work showcased 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 ensure you include the creative class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media pages and on our website.
Teacher feedback
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.