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Explore the world of dinosaurs through creative arts
Explore the world of dinosaurs through creative arts
Student creative and performing arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 creative and performing arts
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
explore elements of dance and drama to create characters
perform a dance by following actions and instructions
develop coordination skills through movement and actions
create an artwork on a given theme
create a musical landscape including dinosaur-inspired noises
create a mini-musical composition using found objects as instruments.
Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Early Stage 1
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.
DRAES1.1: uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations.
VAES1.1: makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
MUES1.1: participates in simple speech, singing, playing and moving activities, demonstrating an awareness of musical concepts.
Stage 1
Stage 1
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.
DRAS1.2: conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and the expressive skills of movement and voice. Explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
VAS1.1: makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
MUS1.2: explores, creates, selects and organises sound in simple structures.
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students
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 these documents to send to students with limited access to online resources.
Dinosaur dig - dance - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docxDinosaur dig - Music - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docxDinosaur dig - Visual arts - The Arts Unit @home 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.
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