Van Gogh lessons & activities

Vincent Van Gogh theory and Practice

This is a really inspiring, interactive, fascinating, fun and creative lesson for students of all ages, touching on the following aspects of this most amazing painter Vincent Van Gogh
Including:

A Power point and print resource that can be stretched over 2 - 3 hours/lessons, excellent for experienced and new teachers and an excellent cover resource!

• A to do activity
• A literacy starter activity with lots of key words
• An excellent artist fact sheet and picture to copy for students to complete, with exemplars included
• Thoroughly researched and detailed history of the painter
• Letters from the artist, explaining significance of his contribution to art history
• A strong theme of literacy and art history throughout
• Links to other relevant artists, style and movements
• Colour theory and symbolism
• An amazing step by step animation of how to copy Starry Night by Vincent in Oil pastel
• Lots of quotes from Van Gogh throughout
• AFL: students use WWW and EBI throughout to self-assess on the two main activities - success criteria provided
• A choice of home learning activities for students, including challenge and super challenge
• Teacher notes on activities and resources at end of PPT

I really hope you and your students enjoy this lesson as much as I enjoyed putting it together. I really love Van Gogh and I hope you will too!

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Keep your eyes peeled - I will be posting more artist lessons and a final piece project based on this series!