Strange faces

Experiment with creating art out of everyday objects

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 5 and 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• learn about a historical artist

• discover artworks created using everyday objects

• create 2D and 3D artworks using everyday objects

• reflect on the visual interest and elements of their 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.

English K-10 Syllabus

• EN3-3A: uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies.

• EN3-6B: uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies.

• EN3-7C: thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts.

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