Year 8 Totem Pole Unit of Work

This is a unit designed for Year 8 Art students. Student’s explore different Totem Poles from around the world, sketch out designs and design their own Totem Poles.

Overview of Unit:

1. Introduction to the project ‘Totem Poles’ using a power point presentation.
2. Students arrange themselves/are placed in ‘tribes’. Each chooses a totem animal.
3. Students design and develop a myth about their totem animal. Each tribe will have a display sheet to document the background of their totem pole.
4. Students plan how they are going to construct and decorate their totem animal and the materials needed.
5. Students construct and decorate their totem animal. In their tribes they build their totem pole with their totem animals.
6. Student evaluate their own and others work produced during this project.