Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Dowloaded over 5000 times last Christmas. Updated for 2021. Treat kids to this great big Christmas Quiz.
40 cool questions suitable for students aged 11 to 16. Provided as a printable doc and also as a PDF slideshow with festive backgrounds.
Also includes a bonus visual round - 10 zoomed in seasonal images for students to guess.
We hope you and your students have a wonderful festive season! Merry Christmas!
Was £10, now £5. Used in over 1000 schools worldwide. A big price drop on our top download to help people prepare for going back to school. 40 science worksheets plus 3 complementary posters. This big bundle of documents is ideal for when you are looking for an introductory lesson, an extension activity or a hassle free substitute lesson. Also suitable for Home-schooling. Each document provides background information and visuals on a particular topic along with a supporting worksheet which challenges the student to expand on the information provided. 40 individual print friendly for ease of copying, these documents can simply be handed out to students and require no explanation. A great resource to have at the ready for when illness strikes and you are understaffed. This resource runs to over 200 pages of information and activities. The 40 topics covered are;
Alpha Beta Gamma Radiation
Anaesthetics
Bee Decline
Big Bang Theory
Body Image
Chemical Weapons World War 1
Diabetes
Drugs in Sport
Earthquakes
Eclipses
Engaging in Science
Environmental Issues
Fireworks
Global Warming
Graphene
Health and Fitness
History of the Atom
Hurricane Matthew
International Space Station
Life Beyond Earth
Lifecycle of a Large Star
Lifecycle of a Medium Star
Medical Imaging
Mission to Mars
Modern Chemical Weapons
New Cancer Treatment
Nuclear Weapons
Obesity
Planet Earth
Power of Social Media
Science of Christmas
Science of Color
Social Media
Solar Power
The Moon
The Solar System
The Sun
Tornadoes
Tsunamis
Wildlife Decline
The free themed posters are … The Moon, The Sun and The Big Bang. Cool visuals and student friendly facts. Simply print them out and put them up in your classroom.
Suitable for students aged 10 to 15. We hope that you find these resources really useful.
Cut your workload with this Back to School Assembly Powerpoint. 20 fully editable slides welcoming students back to school. Each slide has an eye catching image and emphasises the important points that children should consider as they set off on what will hopefully be another successful year.
Slides highlight the following areas.
The need for balance in life
Friendship
Hard work
Being kind
Engaging in lessons
Supporting each other
Asking for help … and more.
This resource is fully editable because, let’s be honest, the chances of designing an assembly Powerpoint that absolutely hits everything you want to say are quite remote. We hope that this really reduces your workload though so that you can enjoy that last few days of the holiday. Good luck for the new academic year.
Happy Valentine’s Day! 10 colouring sheets. Easy to print. An ideal fun activity during form time or art lessons. Heart outlines will allow students to develop their own designs within the shape.
Here comes the summer! A fun visual quiz for the end of the year or term. A simple game ..... students have to guess what the image or object is from a zoomed in section. 20 different images. The whole images are also included. Simply play the slideshow and give students a bit of fun at the end of a hard year. Over 40 slides in total.
This is a totally free service during the Corona Crisis. There will be a new art activity posted every week during the Coronavirus crisis. So far there are over 70 videos to choose from… and the number is increasing every day!
This is a free service that we are offering which we hope will help teachers, students are parents continue with art and creativity during this troubled time. A wide range of themes will be covered. Lessons cover drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printing, mixed media, digital, presentation techniques, Top sketchbook examples… and many more. suitable for all ages … even
Simply download the Word document and use the link, or even easier, just click here
Then simply subscribe to the channel to make sure you get access to every new video.
We really hope this helps people during this difficult time. Stay safe everyone!
Science and History. A thorough information and worksheet exploring Chemical Weapons of World War 1. Ideal as a starter or extension activity for 10 to 14 year olds. Fully illustrated and easy to copy.
Buy once - get all future and past quizzes FREE! This is a topical EASTER quiz for use during the week starting on the 26th March 2018.
There are also 16 news quizzes that can be downloaded from previous weeks and a Christmas special! These quizzes can be printed out, placed into a PowerPoint or inserted into any documents that you wish to produce. We have done the hard work so that you don't have to. A range of questions of varying difficulty, but all relate to the story of Easter. Also don't forget that if you buy one week, you can come back to download the next quiz at no extra cost. Suitable for KS3 and 4.
Watch out for new quizzes.
The new GCSE Art specification will be taught from September 2016 onwards. This resource provides students with an easy to follow sketchbook guide that is fully aligned to the new specification.
The guide offers background information on the nature of the new specification. this includes how it will be marked and the requirements of the new Assessment Objectives. Students are then guided through a broad range of activities which link directly to the AOs and therefore encourage full coverage of them.
This resource is equally useful to teachers, providing a step by step course structure that teachers can adapt to meet their particular requirements.
We will be handing out GCSE Art Component 2 question papers in January. This is a FULLY EDITABLE 12 page guide for students to help them develop artwork for GCSE Art Component 2. It is suitable for all exam boards including AQA and Edexcel. As it is fully editable it is suitable for use with ALL TITLES; Art and Design, Fine Art, Textiles, Graphics, Photography, 3D Design. This fully illustrated guide leads the student through the stages of development of a thorough set of work that meets the requirements of the assessment objectives. Drawing in all its forms is strongly encouraged, as drawing underpins all other work, no matter which Title is being followed.
This resource is used in an outstanding Art Department. No exam questions are reproduced in this resource. The guidance given provides a structure that works irrespective of the starting point. Potentially, this could be used as an outline for the development of Component 1 too!
Also includes an editable planning sheet to help students organise themselves right from the start.
This resource is provided as a Word doc so that you can edit it to meet your needs. For instance, tailor it to your exam board and deadline dates, or add your own images and artist references. We hope it helps!
**P.S, be sure to unzip (extract) the file once downloaded. To do this, simply right click on the file and choose “Extract all” from the menu. You will then have a fully editable resource. **The zipped download system is set by TES, by the way, authors have no choice in the matter. It is to speed up the download process.
This PSHE resource provides matter of fact information regarding body image. Why do people have positive and negative body images? What contributes to this? How can people improve their perception about how they look? Information and a questionnaire to encourage students to consider how they think about their own body image. Easy to photocopy as a hand-out and suitable for KS3, 4 and 5 students.
This thorough resource provides 38 linked lesson plans (158 pages) suitable for the Scottish Curriculum of Excellence. Lessons are aimed at students in S1, 2 and 3 (Third / Fourth level). Each lesson builds upon the last ensuring that progress can be easily demonstrated.
Themes covered include formal drawing, ceramics, wire sculpture, collage, painting and much more.
Each lesson plan comprises clear teacher guidance, risk assessment, materials list, aims and objectives, a student friendly explanation sheet and a homework sheet.
The resource has been developed to engage students in skills and elements required to fulfil the Higher Art and Design Course Specification (C704 76).
This huge resource (154 pages) offers 38 linked lesson plans, leading students through the key elements of Art, Design and Creativity. Each lesson plan provides differentiation, lesson outline, lesson structure, materials required, and homework. Each lesson also provides a photocopiable information sheet for students, written in a student friendly style.
Topics covered include drawing styles, observation, abstraction, figure drawing, mask making, sculpture, landscape painting, portraiture, ceramics, colour theory, architecture .... and much more.
The lessons have been purposefully written to lead on from each other, allowing students to build upon their ever increasing skills sets through the Key Stage 3 years.
The resource has been written by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Department, Senior Art Moderator and Professional Artist.
We can hand out the AQA A level Art Component 2 question papers on Friday 1st February. Get ahead off the game with this collection of support resources. Included are the following.
Support bundle for students comprising of:
Contents
• Introduction
• Student information
• Week by week guide
• Homework checklist
• Support request sheet
• The History of Art – Notable Periods, Styles and Artists
• Component 2 Final Outcome Checklist
• Art Analysis Prompt Sheet
• AQA A level grade boundaries from 2019
• Securing Outstanding A level Performance in Art
18 pages in total.
A document for teachers explaining why ALPS doesn’t always work for Art.
A fully editable letter to parents explaining what is required.
We hope that this will take the pressure off at the start of the process.
11 Schemes of Work suitable for Key Stage 3 teaching. Each scheme provides a clear week by week plan, risk assessment, materials list, homework and description of aims.
68 high quality photographs of a real human skeleton to support art students. Every part of the skeleton is photographed. ideal for students focussing on anatomy. Also suitable for Biology students.
We will be handing out the GCSE Art External Task papers as soon as we return in January 2018. Reduce your holiday workload with this resource. These documents provide a structured guide for students, outlining a week by week approach to developing preparatory work and emphasising the importance of fully covering the Assessment Objectives. Included is a checklist to help students keep themselves on track. Also, a prompt sheet for analysing the artwork of recognised artists. The resource is provided as a PDF and also as a Word document so that it can be easily edited to suit your school's specific needs.
For a supporting library of photographs go to https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-a-level-art-photographic-library-over-500-fully-copiable-and-editable-images-11188224
It’s nearly the end of another busy school year. Give students a treat with this fun visual quiz. All they have to do is guess what the object is from a zoomed in section. All the objects have a summer theme. All complete photos are included of course so that the mystery objects can be revealed. We hope you enjoy the holiday when it finally arrives!
Surely one of the first things that students need to be taught is how their work will be assessed. This Back to School support for students sorts that out. Do you find it hard to explain to students what the AQA A level Art Assessment Objectives mean? Do your students find the language of the AOs confusing? If so, this resource will help. A 9 slide presentation which goes through each AO in turn clearly explaining in student friendly language what they mean. Designed to be print friendly so that it can be given to students as a handout. I have used this resource with my own students to great effect. I hope that it helps you too.