Bird's eye art

Explore artwork using aerial perspective and abstract forms

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 and 8 visual arts

Your students will:

• imagine the world from different perspectives

• explore aerial art by looking at Sarrita King’s artmaking practice and Google Earth

• create an artwork to express connection to place through line, shape, colour and texture

• reflect on the meaning of representational and abstract art.

Visual Arts 7-10 Syllabus

• 4.1: uses a range of strategies to explore different artmaking conventions and procedures to make artworks.

• 4.2: explores the function of and relationships between artist – artwork – world – audience.

• 4.4: recognises and uses aspects of the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts.

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

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard