Engaging, easy-to use, challenging lesson resources designed to help close the disadvantage gap. From print & go worksheets when you're in a rush to thoughtful assemblies when you need to impress. For busy, happy teachers who want highly motivated and productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator. MA, BFA, NPQSL
Engaging, easy-to use, challenging lesson resources designed to help close the disadvantage gap. From print & go worksheets when you're in a rush to thoughtful assemblies when you need to impress. For busy, happy teachers who want highly motivated and productive students. Designed by a Head of Creative & Performing Arts, Head of Art and GCSE and A-level Art moderator. MA, BFA, NPQSL
I always teach this lesson when I have a job interview.
I’ve always gotten the job and excellent feedback.
Includes:
Subject-specific vocabulary DO NOW exercise
Clear instructions
Assessment Criteria
Exemplar material
High levels of challenge
Drawing and sculpture activities
Questions to check learning
All you need is: Pencils, paper, paper rods (if you have them)
L.O: To demonstrate our understanding of SHAPE and FORM through Sculpture and Drawing
Need to print something off for ANY Art, Design Technology or English lesson?
Print this off on a double sided sheet and you can relax knowing your students will be enjoying themselves as they create their own characters and comic book spread.
L.O: To create our own original expressive characters using different combinations of facial features and hairstyles.
Instructions: Start by choosing a pair of eyes, a nose & hair from below and draw them directly on top of the circles to the right. Feel free to be brave and invent your own features & hair too.
Want to engage your year 9s, 10s or 11s in an interesting watercolour painting project that will keep them focused for several lessons?
All you need are pencils, paper & some basic watercolour paints to get incredible outcomes.
Includes:
-Step by step instructions
-Primary source octopus photographs to work from
-Success Criteria
-Examples of outcomes in a variety of different styles
I’ve designed this lesson for my students so that they come back to me with PRIMARY SOURCES that they’ve created that they can then work from.
This resource includes:
-Clear instructions
-Possible interpretations of the theme with ideas of what to photograph
-Links to an artist
-Examples of good photographs
-Examples and instructions of how to organise photographs in the sketchbook and how to respond to them using drawing etc.
Need an engaging activity to lead your students in this WORLD POETRY DAY?
Need to get your students interested in and responding to key texts?
If so, you’re in the right place!
Includes:
-Clear instructions
-A diverse selection of poems to print for students to work on
-Assessment Criteria
-Exemplar work & ideas
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!
Use this resource to get your students exploring the exam theme POWER through creating their own propaganda posters.
Includes:
-An introduction to the history of protest Art
-A variety of propaganda poster styles to choose from
-Key Art vocabulary word match up activity
-Examples of artists who use their Art to protest
-Ethical practice in protest
Perfect for setting a holiday homework task
This is it- I’ve gone and done the work for you!
2024 Edexcel Art exam theme is OBSERVE, SEEK, CHALLENGE. Now what?
Download now and get your students researching relevant artists in style, taking their own photographs, using a range of media to produce beautiful drawings, making experimental collages, mindmapping their way through the theme and more!
Includes:
8 Clearly explained, engaging tasks that earn your students marks for every Assessment Objective
Exemplar work and Assessment Criteria
A range of relevant artists
A mix of traditional and computer-based tasks to help meet the skills and motivation needs of every student
Over 40 pages of content to keep students industriously creating
Designed by a Pearson Edexcel A-level Art moderator
Enjoy!
An entire unit (7+ lessons) to help your students master the fundamentals of drawing comic characters.
Includes:
-understanding proportion
-drawing facial expressions
-drawing bodies in motion
inventing your own characters
-creating your own comics
& more
Need to assess your student’s skills in Art?
No problem!
Download and print and you’re ready to go…
-3 different easy-to-use, easy to mark drawing assessments
-clear instructions for students
-assessment criteria & marking scheme
**Need to cover a few Art or Design lessons fast? **
-This instant download, easy to print 17-page booklet features hours of independent activities that will help your students learn about colour theory, portraiture and cubism.
-A diverse range of fun Colour Theory activities including linking emotions to colours
-Explore and create cubist art in the style of Pablo Picasso & Matthew Marquis.
-Learn and revise key terms and complete the quiz
An engaging, challenging unit of work that explores the origins of graffiti.
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Includes*
7 or more lessons worth of resources
definition match-up DO NOW tasks
history of graffiti linking back to prehistoric times
easy to print off worksheets teaching knowledge and literacy
bonus cover lesson worksheet to use at any time
I used it with year 9, but could work for any year.
Enjoy!
Print out to create an educational and dazzling display of key art vocabulary
Improve subject-specific literacy and promote excellent oracy.
Great resource to help students evaluate their own work or to research an artist.
All the artists straight from the exam paper along with some extras to get students started on an artist research and/or generating project ideas right away.
Includes:
An introduction to all of the artists included in the exam paper
This is all you will need to effectively kick off the 2024 art exam period…
Specifically designed to prepare GCSE students for their 2024 POWER Edexcel exam theme 2024.
Includes:
a range of different possible interpretations of the theme
exemplar material
assessment Criteria
full instructions and examples for students to be able to independently create their own:
**Moodboard
Mindmap
Artist Research
Artist Response**
Designed by a Pearson Edexcel Moderator and Head of Art who works in an all-boys state school.
Use this resource to help your students create level 8 and 9 artist research pages for the 2023 exam theme of LOCK!
Includes:
Checklist for what is required in an artist research
SEMI writing framework & an example of how to use it
Visual & written exemplars
Tips for top marks
Success Criteria for each grade- 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…
A choice of several relevant artists that your students will like.
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
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
A whole month of lessons! Drawing using tone and drawing celebrity portraits. Always a favorite lesson of my students.
Includes:
A whole month of lessons!
Printable worksheets
Assessment Criteria
Step by step guide
Do now tasks
Autumn Art Assessment
Marksheet
A whole month of year 7 Art lessons to start your year off on track.
Lesson 1: Baseline Drawing
Lesson 2: Creativity Challenge
Lesson 3: Composition & Collage
Includes:
Clear Learning Objectives
Exemplars
Do Now Tasks
Success criteria
Homework Tasks
Printable collage images
Marksheet