Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Updated for 2017-18. I originally produced this STEAM resource to help my own children learn to tell the time. It has since been used extensively to support teaching time telling to children aged between 5 and 10 years of age.
This Key Stage 1 and 2 Maths resource provides clear visuals and activities to support children in the development of time telling skills. The aim is to encourage children to take a hands on approach and enjoy learning to tell the time.
Slides are provided in three different formats; full colour, black and white photocopiable and tinted dyslexia friendly.
A thorough Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of landscape painting and drawing with reference to the work of Hundertwasser.
A 25 slide presentation that clearly explains to students the importance of meeting the Assessment Objectives. In particular, this resource emphasizes the need to generate original and thorough ideas. Through notes and visuals the slide-show shows how ideas link to all four Assessment Objectives. I have used this resource with my own students with outstanding results. Work has been praised by the moderators for being original, thorough and clearly meeting the requirements for the AQA specification.
An Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of the relationship between art and architecture. This scheme includes the teaching of 1 and 2 point perspective drawing.
Updated for 2017-18. A thorough Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, Providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of portraiture techniques through drawing, painting and ceramics.
Information sheets covering colour theory. A printable resource providing colour wheel, colour images, definitions of colour related terms and a blank colour wheel for students to work with. Accessible information for both student and teacher.
An Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of colour theory and the development of abstract artwork in relation to colour.
An Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of drawing techniques.
An Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the study of drawing techniques and styles.
An Art scheme of work suitable for Key Stage 3 students, providing a lesson by lesson guide, cross curricular links, homework advice and recommendations on materials. The focus of the scheme is the use of recyclable and found materials in the development of artwork.
An Art specific Gifted and Talented Policy. The information contained within the document will help provide a clear structure to the teaching of Gifted and Talented students.
This extensive and recently updated resource provides 22 pages full of comments suitable for Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 Art student reports. Comments cover the full range of abilities and are fully editable. A very useful resource for busy Art teachers who require report writing inspiration or just a bit of help with report structures.
This resource provides matter of fact information regarding body image. Why do people have positive and negative body images? What contributes to this? How can people improve their perception about how they look? Information and a questionnaire to encourage students to consider how they think about their own body image. Easy to photocopy as a hand-out.
This ingenious Powerpoint provides an addition sum generator for younger children. Simply click on the highlighted button and a random sum will appear. Give your students time to answer the question before clicking on the sum to reveal the answer. One more click on the answer returns you to the sum generator page. All sums use numbers from 1 to 9, making it suitable for younger children.
Ideal for whole class mental math sessions.
You can even edit the resource to input your own choice of sums. I am happy to answer any questions on this resource and explain how to edit it if you wish to do so. Please feel free to contact me through the TES site or by email at maelmatthews@gmail.com.
Halloween's on the way. This visual resource provides 26 spooky grayscale images which can be used as inspiration for creative writing or artwork. The images have been provided in grayscale to allow them to be photocopied. Students can then use the image as a guide, adding color to the image using paint or pastel.
These images are spooky, but not too scary! So would be suitable for use with all ages.
Happy Halloween!
This book provides a step by step art project for junior aged students. A Growth Mindset is encouraged through challenging tasks that encourage a love of learning. The focus is "The Natural World". Children are guided through the development of drawings and paintings based on natural objects. A range of artwork by recognised artists is also introduced to students. Suitable for children aged 6 to 10.
The resource can provide a structure for 6 to 8 individual art lessons. It also allows for modification by the teacher to suit the particular group.
This Junior Art resource has been developed by Start Creative Resources
The resource provides students with a step by step guide to developing an effective sketchbook. It is suitable for Middle and High school students.
Emphasis is placed on observational studies, analysis of the work of artists and crafts-people, exploration of materials and processes and the development of ideas through informed decision making and making links between areas of research. The book can also be used by teachers, helping to structure their teaching.
The book can be used in a very literal sense with lower attaining students, or as a scaffolding structure for higher attaining students.
This resource has been developed by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Subject and Senior Art examiner.
Engage students in the 2016 Rio Olympics with this slideshow. All the sports, from Archery to Wrestling are documented. A slide is dedicated to each sport (39). An ideal visual resource for encouraging interest and discussion.
Enjoy the Games!
This resource comprises a slide show of images of dramatic landscapes, offering inspiration for Art students of all ages. The textural and compositional qualities of the images could potentially provide a starting point for media experimentation and artwork development.
This resource is equally suitable as a cross curricular tool, offering a visual reference for geography students or as inspiration for creative writing. It can be used in conjunction with other Art resources by Mael Matthews on TES.