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.
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 drawing portraits using tone & the observational method.
This resource includes instructions for 2 different skills and could cover 3-4 lessons:
1- Self-portrait drawing from observation
2- Half-portrait of a celebrity.
Differentiated targets for Stretch & Challenge, More able and less able students.
-2 booklets that teach art history, observational and grid drawing techniques and are fun to work through.
-Over 8 hours worth of materials.
-Scaffolded structure to learning, with Do Now (starter) tasks which build up to a final outcome.
-Great for remote lessons as clear instructions make it easy for students to work through independently.
-High quality activities which develop a range of fundamental drawing skills.
-Easy to use- just download and print.
-Includes Assessment Criteria
-Perfect for KS3 & KS4.
Use this resource to empower your students and help them develop their painting skills.
Artist mission: To learn how to control a combination of wet media to create a realistic chocolate bar painting.
Includes:
-Success criteria
-Media strengths & weaknesses
-Key vocabulary
-Links to relevant artists
-Homework tasks
I used this for a 2-month A2-sized year 10 candy painting project, but it could be adapted for any length of time and any year group. My students combined acrylic, watercolour, ink and aquapencils to achieve their outcome.
An 'egg-cellent' way to push your students to draw and paint from observation without 'crackin' a sweat.
We used this activity as a 5 hour practical art exam.
Includes:
-2 lessons: Exam activity & imaginative response
-Step-by-step instructions for success
-Assessment criteria
-Visual examplars
-Links to relevant artists
All you need to do now is go buy some eggs!
Perfect to set as a holiday home work task or a cover lesson.
Use this ready-to-print booklet to inspire your GCSE or KS3 students to work in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Includes
Step-by-step guide
links to articles about Da Vinci
Success Criteria
Anatomical images to draw
Examples of student work
Mark sheet
Optical Art lessons where students learn op art techniques and then create their own dazzle ships. Optical illusions.
Includes:
Content for 2 to 4 lessons
Examples
Success Criteria
Do Now Tasks
Printable worksheets
Marksheet
Teach Colour Theory properly and create a high quality outcome using Watercolour paint.
Includes:
-Slides content and printable worksheets for several lessons (6 or more)
-Introduction to relevant artists
-Success Criteria
-Colour Theory Key vocabulary
-Exemplars
Need a high quality Design Technology resource?
Need to print it out ASAP?
2 lessons worth of Food & Nutrition cover- just, buy and print and you’re covered.
-Sensory words crossword puzzle
-Dangers of sugar activity pack
I used this 15 minute assembly with year 10, but it is suitable for use across all of KS3, KS4 & KS5.
Includes:
-The importance of remembering
-The symbolism of the poppy
-2 minute silence (with video clip to The Last Post)
-Reflection/Prayer
In a rush?
No need to fuss.
Download these 3 double-sided cover sheets and print and you are sorted.
Enough activities to keep your students engaged and learning for 3 entire lessons.
Includes**
-Skulls & Vanitas worksheet**
-skull drawing activity
-highlight the key words knowledge task
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-Colour Theory worksheet**
-Colour theory revision activity
-Colour theory wordsearch
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-Still Life worksheet**
-highlight the key words knowledge task
-Still life drawing activity
-Still life wordsearch
A variety of tasks including drawing, designing and analysis of Ergonomics in Design Technology
Quick print cover sheet to keep students learning all lesson.
KS4 Egonomics
Something that is designed to work well with the human body is designed to be ergonomic. A good example of this are games controllers.These are carefully designed to fit the human hand and be comfortable to use. If your hands ache using when playing games, you are probably play too long and should take a break
A 10-15 minute assembly on the important topic of bullying just in time for ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2024.
Includes:
Reflection questions
Definitions for different types of bullying
Tips on how to be an upstander
A choice of relevant videos to share
Resources at the end so students know how to get help when they need it.
Print & go high quality 2 page Design Technology cover worksheet for 1 or 2 lessons
Students will learn about and complete a variety of different activities to deepen their understanding and application of the 6 R’s of Sustainability in Design:
Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Refuse, Rethink & Recycle
Great for KS3 & KS4
Everything you need to make your end of year assessment process go smoothly and stress-free
Literally print out the tests & project instructions and you’re good to go
3 unique worksheets to print out for each of year 7, 8 and 9
full instructions and assessment criteria written on each worksheet
Easy to mark and out of 25 so easy to calculate a percentage score if needed
This is what my department is using now to assess drawing skills and progress made to collect data for our end of the year reports.
Use this to help your students plan their final exam outcome and get big marks in all the Assessment Objectives. Students develop metacognition in evaluating their own progress against clear checkpoints.
Includes:
-6 pages of printable pages that your students can use to easily plan and clearly show their idea development for POWER 2024.
-A page guiding students in how to draw thumbnail sketches to show their ideas
-Questions that get students to engage with and evaluate their own work.
-A checklist of tasks that need to be completed for a strong portfolio
All you need to do is print and go!
An entire SOW for your year 12 art students written by a Pearson Edexcel & OCR A-level Art moderator.
Download & share with your students today to get them started on producing a wide variety of high quality outcomes that develop and showcase their technical skills, personal style and analytical abilities.
Includes:
Step by step instructions & examples outcomes for students to complete the highest quality of mindmaps, moodboards & artist research
A diverse selection of artists for students to choose from
Guided instructions on how to take your own photos, present, annotate and sketch from them.
Instructions and artist links on how to created a sophisticated collage working from copies of their own photos and other collage materials to create an inspired outcome.
Guidance to produce an extended focus drawing with a choice of 7 different media & techniques.
Instructions on how to complete a final mindmap that articulate clearly the direction the personal project & outcome is going to take.
Brand new International Men’s Day assembly featuring:
-The 2024 themes
-Famous quotes
-Reflection questions
-An explanation for why we need an ‘International Men’s Day’
-Definition of ‘Toxic Masculinity’
-Video clips exploring the themes of ‘how to be unapologetically you’ and ‘not being afraid to show emotions’.
Should take between 10-17 minutes.
Could be used as a year or house group assembly, during form time or as part of a PSHE lesson.
This assembly educates about the horrors of holocaust and explains how it is relevant today.
The main theme is the fragility of freedom.
The purpose of this assembly is to ensure your students properly understand the impact of this important historical event.
Includes:
silent reflection questions
ideas on how to participate in holocaust memorial day
definitions of the words holocaust and genocide
poems from survivors
quote from Anne Frank’s diary.
4 short video clips to engage and inform
-Use this resource to enable your students to analyse and evaluate their own & their peers final art outcomes for the Edexcel 2017 Beginning/End exam
-Improve the quality of writing to earn marks for Assessment Objective 3:Record & 4: Present
-S.E.M.I. Writing frame with question prompts and model answers
-Red/Amber/Green sketchbook to-do checklist
-Clear breakdown of Assessment Objective 4.