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Explore futuristic sounds, create art and act like an alien!
Explore futuristic sounds, create art and act like an alien!
Student creative arts resource developed by The Arts Unit
Year 3 to Year 6 music, drama and visual arts
What will your students learn?
What will your students learn?
Your students will:
listen and respond to music
explore and experiment with sound and movement
develop a character through art and drama.
Syllabus outcomes
Syllabus outcomes
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus
Stage 2
MUS 2.4: Identifies the use of musical concepts and musical symbols in a range of repertoire.
DRAS2.1: Takes on and sustains roles in a variety of drama forms to express meaning in a wide range of imagined situations.
DRAS2.2: Builds the action of the drama by using the elements of drama, movement and voice skills.
VAS2.2: Uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter.
Stage 3
MUS3.4: identifies the use of musical concepts and symbols in a range of musical styles.
VAS3.2: makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.
DRAS3.1: develops a range of in-depth and sustained roles.
DRAS3.2: interprets and conveys dramatic meaning by using the elements of drama and a range of movement and voice skills in a variety of drama forms.
Cross-curricular suggestions
Cross-curricular suggestions
This Creative Class can be used as a stimulus for a variety of literacy activities.
Informative writing
If students in your class are able to share their alien creations, you may choose to create a class alien encyclopaedia which describes all the weird and wonderful aliens in the class's imaginary universe.
Students could write an informative text describing their alien to accompany their visual creation.
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum
English K–10 Syllabus
EN3-2A: composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts.
EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.
Imaginative writing
Students could use their alien as a character or stimulus for an imaginative writing piece. Students could use text and images to create a picture book, a graphic novel, a comic, a short story or a novel.
Alternatively, students could focus on developing their descriptive language and create a character profile for their alien.
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum
English K–10 Syllabus
EN3-2A: composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts.
EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.
Persuasive writing and speaking
Students could present their aliens in small groups and discuss which alien they believe is the scariest, silliest or friendliest. Alternatively, they could present a persuasive speech or write an exposition on the matter.
NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum
English K–10 Syllabus
EN3-2A: composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts.
EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.
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 this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.
ME3PO - Creative arts with aliens - 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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