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Art Thinking - clever resources to engage and stimulate creative approaches, and genuine informed responses.
A Look At Shocking Art
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A Look At Shocking Art

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Always an enjoyable lesson with good opportunities for discussion and the promotion of equality and diversity. It has an engaging starter requiring students to question what is actually shocking about the images they are looking at, and how opinions and values change over time. The extended tasks allows for further personal responses to develop again promoting E&D in the students exploring and sharing what they find in term of a top 10 they create. Ideal for an intervention lesson at KS3, 4 and 5, or as a lesson to widen appreciation and knowledge of Art History
Male or Female Art - can you tell the difference?
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Male or Female Art - can you tell the difference?

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A fun starter to engage them as soon as they arrive and a good one to tick the equality and diversity box with opportunities to discuss gender and the way men and women tackle subject matter, challenging stereotypical view points. Really good for generating discussion with A Level and GCSE classes, and I've also used it in PSHE lessons to good effect.
Odd One Out - City Views
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Odd One Out - City Views

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A starter activity - engages students in looking for connections and questioning what they see in what the differences and similarities are in the city views, which are real and which are false - leading into discussions on what the artists are attempting to do. Ideal for KS3, 4 and 5 as a starter for any lesson where you want them thinking as soon as they come in.
Lesson Starter Bundle 2
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Lesson Starter Bundle 2

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7 starter activities to engage and inspire students in thinking outside of the box. Great for developing thinking skills to get lessons going on a positive note
Lesson Starter Bundle
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Lesson Starter Bundle

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6 thinking skills starters to engage and inspire as well as inform on different approaches and aspects of Art. Great for KS 3 4 & 5 - useful for starting lesson observations, or just as a way of giving them something different
Lesson in Composition
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Lesson in Composition

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A starter and lesson follow on looking at composition, the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Section. This can extend into a set of lessons investigating composition in students' work. Great for a mix of AO1, and AO4 and incorporates some maths into the mix too. Useful for a wide range of KS2 3 4 & 5 as well as being great for a part of project work to show a good understanding of composition.
Identify the subject
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Identify the subject

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A starter activity to engage in looking for the subject matter. Useful for students to see that artists paint their mums and for them to consider why they might do this. The works for any age KS2, 3 4 and 5 Art and Design
Odd One Out Vanadalised
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Odd One Out Vanadalised

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A starter to focus students on questioning why people vandalise works of art, thinking outside the box to lead into discussion whether graffiti is art or vandalism, and how can you tell the difference.
Discussion Questions For Art and Design
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Discussion Questions For Art and Design

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15 inspirational posters that will challenge thinking and can also be used as lesson starters or as something to refer to should discussion points arise. I find them useful in having them around to subliminally challenge students' thinking and to get ideas from. Contains cultural aspects, big questions and ones that can be adapted to fit thematic project work. I started using discussion questions to break away from the traditional biographical writing students tend to do, and its really helpful in generating evidence of thinking and an informed, personal response for AO4
Big Questions
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Big Questions

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A set of 15 questions to use as display to prompt thinking, or to use as starters. These have been really useful in challenging perceptions - I originally did these for an Open Evening but they have been great to refer to in class as opportunity arises. Includes
The 5 minute joiner
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The 5 minute joiner

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An easy step by step guide to doing joiners with photomerge on photoshop. This is so easy for students to explore David Hockney's joiners in a really fun and active way - because they are reasonably quick to do its feasible for students to be able to explore a set of these in a lesson and generate a body of work quickly. Mixes AO 1 and 2 nicely if they start by researching what Hockney did here. Always a busy and engaging lesson
Looking at paintings
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Looking at paintings

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A lesson through power point for younger learners to begin to think about how they could write about painting. This is a useful starting point for looking at subject matter, approach and techniques as things to consider when gathering responses. The presentation has suggested tasks to complete through the lesson to break into chunks.
Hierarchy of Responses
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Hierarchy of Responses

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A lesson to focus on best ways to develop responses for AO4. Ideal for KS3 GCSE and A Level in taking students from initial basic responses to how they can use sources and information to develop their thinking and extend their written responses. The power point contains reference to 2 artists, prompts for thinking, an extended task with suggestions to get going with ways of sentence starters, along with aims and objectives. I have always found this lesson really useful in developing the skills needed for AO1 in a way that is based on Blooms, but less overwhelming in terms of it being so much to look at for students.
Fundamental British Values?
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Fundamental British Values?

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A starter activity that can bring discussion on the nature of British tastes and preferences - with opportunity to challenge ideas on stereotype. You could use it as part of a display also. Has been useful in addressing some of the requirements of Fundamental British Values and can lead into further exploration of martin Parr's photography
The benefits of leaving things unfinished
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The benefits of leaving things unfinished

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This lesson has been really useful for students to consider how to show the processes of their work so that it is clear they have made decisions with their media in the development of their work. There is a starter activity which focusses them into the notion that an unfinished piece of work can be really useful in how we understand how an artist works, and how this is useful to them - show the journey of a piece of work and the moderators will understand how they think, use their media and refine their work. Really good for AO1 2 and 3, and useful for KS3 4 and 5.
Repeating Pattern Made Easy
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Repeating Pattern Made Easy

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This always goes well - it gives students a systematic approach to making a seamless repeat pattern. The step by step guide on the power point comes with a starter pattern looking at repeating pattern across different cultures and then focuses on William Morris style repeating process, so a good coverage of AO1 2 and 4. Great for years 7 - 9 but can be done in a simpler version for KS2 also. Good to follow on from some observation drawing sessions on natural forms, but I've used the idea with allsorts of shapes from Cosmic to micro organisms
Symbolic Imagery
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Symbolic Imagery

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This is a set of 16 slides featuring 30+ images of French Emblems by Claude Paradin. I use these with the boys you can come across that are not so engaged in their Art - they really go for the style of approach and the strange combinations of images, which sets their imagination going for their own ideas. Covers AO1 really well if you have students wanting to explore this kind of work with more interesting sources. For this activity they can work directly from the images before developing theirs over a series of lessons