Let's draw

Explore drawing through guided illustration

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 5 and 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• explore drawing as an art form

• investigate an artist’s intention and use of techniques

• create an artwork.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

• VAS3.1: investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.

• VAS3.2: makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.

• VAS3.4: communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

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 for 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