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.
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
Give each of your YEAR 10 Art students a copy of this to complete so they can hit the ground running when they return to you in September.
Includes a variety of different tasks that help students build up their art skills while developing an understanding of the Assessment Objectives.
Create an A3 size MINDMAP of 30+ ideas on the topic of REFLECTIONS
Use the appropriate ART materials to complete each of the EXPERIMENTATION exercises on pages 8 to 11
Follow the instructions to complete a tonal drawing on page 13
Complete each of the studies in the space provided using the most
appropriate art materials
Take 20 of your own photographs that connect to the theme
Continue freestyle drawing in your sketchbook to continue developing your
skills and letting your imagination run wild
2 page worksheet that teaches students about colour theory.
This worksheet is ready to print & go, just provide colouring pencils for an engaging, challenging lesson for students of any age. I used with KS3.
Learning Objective: To use drawing and collage to create an imaginative composition.
This is an accessible creative project that really gets my students into a flow state and can last for 5 to 8 lessons. I usually do it with year 8.
All you need are black pens, glue sticks, A3 computer paper & collage pages (included in the download). Prep is easy- print out the collage pages and cut or trim down each A4 page into smaller collage pieces. Students then select 5 or so collage pieces to glue down and then have to fill up the page with their drawings.
Includes:
Clear Objectives and instructions
Focus on understanding the Elements of Pattern, Line & Rhythm
Assessment Rubric
Examples of Outcome
Pattern Inspiration
Do now activity
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!
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
Introduce your students to Keith Haring's Art and have them creatively reinvent the middle of one of his designs.
-I recommend printing out copies of the slide shown for students to work into.
-I've used this lesson as a baseline Creativity Test for Year 7
Use this KS2/KS3 Art & History lesson to engage students with medieval art and have them design a shield that represents their identity.
Includes:
-Assessment Criteria
-Examples of Medieval Shields
-Shield templates
Includes:
Everything you need to get your students to design and create their own wire insect sculpture.
-3 powerpoints to take students through the stages of the unit: Draw/Design/Plan/Execute/Evaluate
-Clear instructions & lesson objectives
-Assessment Criteria
-Key Vocabulary
-Homework
An entire Design Technology term in one file… print off this booklet and your KS3 students can enjoy learning about Product Design, how to draw & render using 3D geometric forms, video game design, logo design & printmaking.
Includes:
-30 pages of engaging, challenging activities
-Assessment Criteria
-Extended writing task
-Self & peer assessment checkpoints
-Teacher feedback checkpoints
-Assessments
-Do Now tasks
-Key vocabulary
In a hurry? Need something now? Edit this to suit your school and you will be ready to go in a flash.
Download this & use the steps to get your students pizza-making in no time!
We used ready-roll pizza bases and I had students working in groups of 3.
Works perfectly with my Food Tech Booklet.
Editable poster to advertise a BHM portrait contest.
Choose an inspirational Person to Draw.
2. Use your art skills to create a unique portrait of this person.
3. Hand it in to the Head of Art before OCTOBER 22nd, 2020 for a chance to win one of many great prizes!
-Learn, Practice and refine portrait skills in a variety of meaningful ways.
-Explore the meaning behind the work of Kehinde Wiley and 6 other artists.
-Analyse art using key vocabulary.
-Plan and draw out your own portrait.
-Ideal for independent learning either in school or through remote learning.
-Editable booklet in pptx format or download, print & go from the included pdf version.
-Black History Month
-Instructions for a practical activity
-Introduction to a range of Artists who work on founds surfaces…
Ekaterina Panikava, Vhils, Florian Nicole, Carola Kastmans, Guy Denning, Ed Fairburn, Mark Powell, Robert Rauschenburg
-Ready to upload or print as is- no edits needed.
-Have a look at the examples of Artwork on this presentation showing the way a variety of different artists have used found surfaces to create portraits.
Ready to print out or upload to use as an engaging, challenging Homework or Pre Learning activity.
Includes:
-Key ART vocabulary words
-Choice of observational drawing tasks
-Success Criteria