Engaging, easy-to use, challenging, adaptable art resources for happy, busy teachers and highly productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator.
Engaging, easy-to use, challenging, adaptable art resources for happy, busy teachers and highly productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator.
I’ve used it for KS3 or KS4, several hours (8+) worth of activities to keep students focused, engaged and learning all about a range of important topics related to Food Technology, Hospitality & Catering.
15 pages, several different topics with very clear instructions and no internet or other resources needed.
Literally just print & go, I had my students record their answers in their exercise books or on lined paper.
One of my favourite lessons to teach. Now your students can enjoy it too! Featuring differentiated resources and a skill-building handout ready to print. Everything you need for a dynamite lesson all included in this ppt. Just add fineliners… and students.
-Empower your students by teaching them how to skilfully use the ink wash technique against success criteria
-Learn about the dark art of Goya and Redon and link to Beginning/and/or End
-3 ready-to-print skill worksheets offering different levels of challenge
-Includes a variety of Goya and Redon images for students to work from
-Differentiated with key art vocabulary in 8 different languages
-Reflection plenary questions to deepen learning and self-evaluate
-Use this resource to get your students exploring the theme of BEGINNING/END and creating extraordinary collages while earning marks for Assessment Objective 1.
-Instructions for how to use collage as an artistic process
-Explanation of what COLLAGE is and tricks on how to use it effectively.
-Examples of artists who use collage as a medium
-Examples of GCSE student collages
Use this engaging resource with your class to explore the art M.C. Escher and create their own 'Escheresque' piece.
-3 different Escher project starting points offering 3 levels of challenge
-Assessment Criteria for these projects.
-Contextual introduction & information about M.C. Escher
-Questions to get your students to think more deeply about his art
-Fun Escher clips to enjoy
Use this ppt to clearly explain the rules and promote positive behaviour for learning in your Art classroom.
Includes:
-Rules
-Reasons why we should follow the rules
-What happens when we do/don't
-An introduction to Art & definition
-Video links to clips that highlight the importance of studying Art.
-Use this resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their 2017 Art exam Beginning/End.
Features:
-Differentiated pathways to ensure student confidence and success in planning & producing a high quality final piece for the art exam
-Examples of high-quality outcomes
-Questions for students to evaluate where they are at with their exam-planning
-Formulas on how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes
-Use this resource to add purpose and build skills in any lesson where students will be drawing an object.
-Can be used as a Baseline test for year 9 and GCSE Art students.
-Includes a lesson plan outline and differentiation.
The Activity:
1. Gather a variety of objects (we use shoes, wooden mannequins, bottles, spray cans etc) and have them out on the table ready for each student.
2. Have students section an A3 paper into 4 and complete 4 separate studies of the same object progressively working from least difficulty to most challenging using: pencil, pen, ink wash technique (black fineliner with a wet paintbrush overtop) and colouring pencil.
An engaging mixed-media drawing task that challenges all abilities of Art students to create Art that combines their creative and technical abilities.
This lesson offers criteria to push and effectively assess LAPS, MAPS, HAPS & G&T students.
Students will spend 2+ hours creating a piece of Art inspired by the heart.
L.O: Take creative risks to make an imaginative, detailed response to your original heart drawing using your choice of mixed media.
Teacher Prep for this lesson:
-Print out some anatomical images of a heart (I've included some photos of lamb's hearts for you to use if you wish) or borrow a heart few models from the science department.
-Get some interesting collage materials (photocopied pages of M.C. Escher's work, graffiti books work well).
-Provide a range of wet & dry media (pastels, inks, sharpies, colouring pencils etc).
-Give students a choice of sugar papers & drawing papers to work on.
Enjoy!
-Use this resource to teach students how to draw using 1 & 2-point perspective
-Learn and understand key terminology
-Engage students by showing interesting perspective video clip (link included) to Julian Beever Street Artist.
Use this resource to get your students using a wide variety of marks to add energy and style to their art.
In this lesson students will...
-experiment with a wide range of expressive lines
-create art in the style of artist Nina Chakrabarti
-evaluate their own & each other's work against the assessment criteria (provided)
All you need for a fun & meaningful lesson is this powerpoint, some black pens, printed out images of faces and students.
Enjoy!
Use this lesson to get your photography students earning marks for A02:
1. Identifying what makes a successful photograph
2.Selecting and evaluating their best images on their contact sheet.
Includes:
-RAG self-checklist for success
-Key vocabulary
-Direct links to Assessment Criteria
-Examples of excellent photographs
This was always one of my favourite lessons to teach!
I designed this one-of-a-kind, highly interactive lesson while teaching English as a Second Language in a Korean High School. The idea is to get all students comfortable practicing speaking in English and asking for directions. There is an overview of key transit-related vocabulary and opportunities for students to role play asking for directions.
Features:
-facts about metro systems around the world
-fun quizzes for students to self-test throughout
-guess the metro game
-creative writing picture prompts
-key transit vocabulary
-key capital city vocabulary
I designed this highly interactive lesson while teaching English as a Second Language in a Korean High School. The idea is to get all students comfortable practicing speaking in English and ordering food. We used whiteboards to draw the food as part of the role play.
Learning objectives:
-Learn new food vocabulary
-Practice ordering food
-Practice counting in dollars
-Understand different cultures
-Match flags with countries
Use this easy powerpoint template to improve questioning in the classroom.
-All you have to do is input names of all students in your class
-Press S to start/stop the powerpoint
-engages students & keep everyone attentive
Use this lesson to introduce GCSE or A-level students to the conceptual art movement of DADAism and have them create their own random collages and automatic poetry.
Includes:
-Introduction to DADAism in Art
-Instructions for how to create a DADAist collage
-Instructions for how to create automatic poetry
-words to print out & use for automatic poetry
-examples of intended outcome
-homework tasks