Visual Arts Continuum of Learning F-6
CONTENT
Developing Understanding of Practices
Responding to & Interpreting Artworks
Exploring Ideas & Improvising
Means of Assessment:During this activity the students were being assessed on their ability to experiment with a range of drawing techniques; select appropriate materials and techniques to suit their intentions; and represent details of an insect including body parts, skin texture, wing patterns, colour and line of antennae.
Purpose of Assessment: The purpose of this visual art activity is to allow students to creatively convey their knowledge and understanding on their prior learning about insects through representing a selected insect’s qualities through drawing techniques such as the use of colour, lines, patterns and textures (VAS2.1 and VAS2.2).
Sharing Artworks
STAGE
ACHIEVEMENT
Exploring ideas, experiences and imagination, including ideas in art by ATSI artists, to create visual art and design (ACAVAM106)
Explore ideas and practices used by artists from different cultures, including ATSI artists to represent different views and opinions (ACAVAM110)
Explore ideas and practices used by artist, including ATSI artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions (AVAVAM114)
Use and experiment with different materials,
techniques, technologies and processes to make
artworks (ACAVAM107)
Use materials, techniques and processes to
explore visual conventions when making artworks
(ACAVAM111)
Develop and apply techniques and processes
when making their artworks (ACAVAM115)
Create and display artworks to communicate ideas
to an audience (ACAVAM108)
Present artworks and describe how they have
used visual conventions to represent their ideas
(ACAVAM112)
Plan the display of artworks to enhance their
meaning for an audience (ACAVAM116)
Respond to visual artworks and consider where
and why people make visual artworks, starting
with visual artworks from Australia, including visual
artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples (ACAVAR109)
Identify intended purposes and meanings of
artworks using visual arts terminology to compare
artworks, starting with visual artworks in Australia
including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR113)
Explain how visual arts conventions communicate
meaning by comparing artworks from different
social, cultural and historical contexts, including
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks
(ACAVAR117)
ES1/1 (K-2)
2 (3-4)
3 (5-6)
By the end of Year 2, students describe artworks they make and view and where and why artworks are made and presented. Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different techniques and processes.
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make, present and view. They discuss how they and others use visual conventions in artworks. Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that are inspired by artworks they experience. They use visual conventions, techniques and processes to communicate their ideas.
By the end of Year 6, students explain how ideas are represented in artworks they make and view. They describe the influences of artworks and practices from different cultures, times and places on their art making.
Students use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express a personal view in their artworks.
They demonstrate different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks. They describe how the display of artworks enhances meaning for an audience.
Bobby's insect drawing
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