The Arts
The arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. The five arts subjects in the Australian Curriculum provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences.
Rich in tradition, the arts play a major role in the development and expression of cultures and communities, locally, nationally and globally. Students communicate ideas in current, traditional and emerging forms and use arts knowledge and understanding to make sense of their world. The Australian Curriculum: The Arts values, respects and explores the significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Australia’s arts heritage and contemporary arts practices through their distinctive ways of representing and communicating knowledge, traditions and experience. In The Arts, students learn as artists and audience through the intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of the arts. They acquire knowledge, skills and understanding specific to The Arts subjects and develop critical understanding that informs decision-making and aesthetic choices. Through The Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions as they discover and interpret the world. They learn that designing, producing and resolving their work is as essential to learning in the arts as is creating a finished artwork. Students develop their arts knowledge and aesthetic understanding through a growing comprehension of the distinct and related languages, symbols, techniques, processes and skills of the arts subjects. Arts learning provides students with opportunities to engage with creative industries and arts professionals.
The arts entertain, challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge of self, communities, world cultures and histories. The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens. Learning in The Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication across their years of learning.
This rationale is extended and complemented by the specific rationale for each arts subject.
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What Is Line?
A 60-minute lesson in which students are introduced to the use of line in visual arts.
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Visual Arts Elements Introduction
A 60-minute lesson in which students are introduced to the seven elements of art.
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Aboriginal Body Painting
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the history and traditional techniques of Aboriginal body painting.
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Aboriginal Sand Drawings
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the history and traditional techniques of Aboriginal sand drawings.
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Working with Form – Plumping It Up
A 60-minute lesson in which students will create the illusion of three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional drawing.
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Exploring Texture
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how texture can be achieved in visual arts.
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Exploring Line
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how lines are used to define objects, add detail and express emotion in visual arts.
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Types of Line
A 60-minute lesson in which students consolidate their knowledge of the use of line in visual arts.
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Aboriginal Wandjina Artworks
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the history and traditional techniques of Aboriginal Wandjina artworks.
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Aboriginal Bark Paintings
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the history and traditional techniques of Aboriginal bark paintings.
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Aboriginal Rock Art
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the history and traditional techniques of Aboriginal rock art.
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Working with Space – Balancing Act
A 60-minute lesson in which students will create an artwork that explores the interplay between positive and negative space.
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The Element of Space
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how space can be used to create the illusion of depth.
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Working with Texture – Impressive Imprints
A 60-minute lesson in which students will create a three-dimensional textured tile artwork using impressions.
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The Element of Texture
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how texture can be achieved in visual arts.
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Working with Colour – Mix It Up
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create an artwork using complementary, harmonious and monochromatic colour schemes.
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The Element of Colour
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how colour is used to express feeling and evoke a response in visual arts.
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The Element of Form
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how form can be achieved in visual arts.
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Applying Shape – Masked in Mystery
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create an African-inspired face mask by experimenting with shape.
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Exploring Colour
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how colour is used to express feeling and evoke a response in visual arts.
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Working with Form – Crazy Clay Critter
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create an imaginary creature from clay by experimenting with shape and form.
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Working with Shape – Organically Abstract Mobile
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create a mobile artwork using organic shapes.
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Exploring Shape
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how geometric and organic shapes are used in visual arts.
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Assessment – Cylinder Sculpture
An assessment task in which students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the use of colour in visual arts.
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Assessment – Patterns, Lines and Feelings
An assessment task in which students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the use of line in visual arts.
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The Element of Shape
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate how geometric and organic shapes are used in visual arts.
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Working with Texture – Textured Mandala
A 60-minute lesson in which students will create a patterned mandala by experimenting with a variety of textures.
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Working with Colour – Marvellous Monochrome
A 90-minute lesson in which students will create a rainforest scene using tints and shades of green.
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Exploring Form
A 60-minute lesson in which students investigate how form can be achieved in visual arts.
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Working with Line – Pattern to Picture
A 60-minute lesson in which students will create a class artwork by experimenting with line and pattern.
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Using Colour
A 60-minute lesson in which students investigate colour and how it can be used effectively to convey meaning in visual arts.
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What Is Colour?
A 60-minute lesson in which students are introduced to the use of colour in visual arts.