When is a stick not a stick?

Teacher notes

Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems

Student drama and visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Preschool, Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 drama and visual arts

What will your students learn?

Your students will:

respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus
explore elements of drama to create characters
develop expressive skills through movement and voice
create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.

Syllabus outcomes

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

Visual arts

VAES1.1: makes simple pictures and other kinds of artworks about things and experiences.
VAS1.1: makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.

Drama

DRAES1.1: uses imagination and the elements of drama in imaginative play and dramatic situations.
DRAES1.3: dramatises personal experiences using movement, space and objects.
DRAS1.1: takes on roles in drama to explore familiar and imagined situations.
DRAS1.2: conveys story, depicts events and expresses feelings by using the elements of drama and the expressive skills of movement and voice.

The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia

Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity

1.3: Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities.

Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners

4.1: Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination, and reflexivity.

4.3: Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

5.1: Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.

5.2: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.

Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students

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

Offline access

Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.

When is a stick not a stick - The Arts Unit @home Creative Classes.docx

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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.

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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.
The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2019, is licensed under CC BY 4.0, accessed 10 May 2020.

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