Teaching Resource Pack
Visual Arts Elements Resource Pack - Upper Years
A comprehensive pack of resources to use with the upper years when studying the elements of Visual Art.
The resources provided explore the elements of line, colour, shape, form, texture and space.
Teaching presentations for each element anchor the learning and provide opportunities for students to respond to artworks as they explore meaning and interpretation. The linked activities allow students to experiment with related techniques and each teaching presentation culminates with an art-making task.
Modify the suggested activities or use them as springboards for your own ideas.
All activities have been designed around materials that classroom teachers generally have readily available.
This teaching resource pack includes:
- Visual Arts Elements Line PowerPoint – Upper Years
- Line and Feelings Sorting Activity – Year 3 to Year 6
- Moving Lines Activity
- Visual Arts Elements Colour PowerPoint – Upper Years
- What’s in a Colour? Sorting Activity
- Mix It Up Activity
- Visual Arts Elements Shape and Form PowerPoint – Upper Years
- Organic Shape Search Worksheet
- Masked in Mystery Activity
- Plumping It Up Activity
- Visual Arts Elements Texture PowerPoint – Upper Years
- Talkin’ Texture Game
- IMPRESSive Imprints Activity
- Visual Arts Elements Space PowerPoint – Upper Years
- Designing for Depth Drawing Templates
- Balancing Act Activity
NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCAVAE029
Explore visual arts practices as inspiration to create artworks that express different ideas and beliefs
- VCAVAV030
Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks
- VCAVAR032
Identify and describe how ideas are expressed in artworks by comparing artworks from different contemporary, historical and cultural contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- VCAVAE029
Explore visual arts practices as inspiration to create artworks that express different ideas and beliefs
- VCAVAV030
Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks
- VCAVAR032
Identify and describe how ideas are expressed in artworks by comparing artworks from different contemporary, historical and cultural contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACAVAM114
Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions
- ACAVAM115
Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks
- ACAVAR117
Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks
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Thank you – this is a great resource.
Colleen Williams · Jul 19th, 2019
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Royce (Teach Starter) · Jul 22nd, 2019