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.
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
Use these editable Art Activity Feedback Trackers to organise the learning for each of your year groups over the course of the year. These trackers can be stuck into the inside cover of the sketchbook and allow for you to communicate regularly with students about their progress as well as enabling students to take ownership and be more independent in their art-making.
Includes:
-Instructions for Artist Activity
-Self/Peer & Teacher Main Assessment Checkpoints
-Space for the teacher to write a quick target for improvement
-Formative & Summative Assessment
-Use this assembly to help educate and raise awareness about refugees and how we can support them.
-Defines important terminology to address misconceptions about what a refugee is or is not.
-Develops empathy, gets students thinking about what it might be like to face the challenges that a refugee has to face
-short video clips to further emphasise the importance of World Refugee Week
-Good for primary or secondary asemblies
Approximate running time: 10-15 minutes
Use this Ppt. to introduce the artist (designer) Nina Chakrabarti to your students and get them experimenting with portraiture and exploring the limits of mark-making.
You just need black fineliner pens and some photos of faces.
Enjoy!
Staying home and don’t know what to do?
Now’s a great time to do something for you!
Quiet, focused, relaxing fun-
Colouring is for everyone!
I’m always drawing in black & white,
I’d like you to help me make things right.
Go get your markers, pick a place to start
And help me add colour to my Art….
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!
Get your students drawing animals realistically and imaginatively as well as researching relevant artists, earning marks for Assessment Objective 1, 2 & 3.
A powerpoint featuring...
-introduction to a range of different traditional and contemporary animal artists for students to choose from
-Instructions and success criteria for an observational animal drawing task
-Instructions and success criteria for an imaginative animal drawing task
Everything you need in one ppt!
-Use this resource to get ALL of your year 11 students effectively researching and writing high quality Artist Study pages to earn top marks for AO1.
-Hopper is featured in the new Beginnings/End exam Edexcel paper, why not use this ppt to scaffold for your students how to do a proper artist study.
Featuring:
-A foolproof system with step by step instructions on how to analyse Hoppers’ work using SEMI
-Printable differentiated worksheets for students to answer questions and fill in the blanks
-A comprehensive and engaging introduction to Hopper’s work
-Examples of high quality GCSE research pages
-Success Criteria & Edexcel mark scheme
-Tips and tricks for top attainers
-Video clips to an analysis of Hopper’s work.
-Use this resource to add purpose and build skills in any lesson where students will be drawing an object.
-Can be used as a Baseline test for year 9 and GCSE Art students.
-Includes a lesson plan outline and differentiation.
The Activity:
1. Gather a variety of objects (we use shoes, wooden mannequins, bottles, spray cans etc) and have them out on the table ready for each student.
2. Have students section an A3 paper into 4 and complete 4 separate studies of the same object progressively working from least difficulty to most challenging using: pencil, pen, ink wash technique (black fineliner with a wet paintbrush overtop) and colouring pencil.
Use this resource to kick-off The Edexcel A2 exam preparation period from February 1st onwards.
Enough resources here to keep your students interested and productive for several lessons...
Featuring:
-Instructions & Examples for 3 tasks to ensure your students are engaging with the theme and to support them in completing work to a high standard:
-Mindmap Challenge task
-Mood Board Collage
-Artist Research page
-Artist Creative Response task
-Collaborative Photo project
-Use this resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their 2017 Art exam Beginning/End.
Features:
-Differentiated pathways to ensure student confidence and success in planning & producing a high quality final piece for the art exam
-Examples of high-quality outcomes
-Questions for students to evaluate where they are at with their exam-planning
-Formulas on how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes
Use this ppt to clearly explain the rules and promote positive behaviour for learning in your Art classroom.
Includes:
-Rules
-Reasons why we should follow the rules
-What happens when we do/don't
-An introduction to Art & definition
-Video links to clips that highlight the importance of studying Art.
Use this resource to get your GCSE students interested in and researching Artists to earn marks for Assessment Objective 1.
Featuring:
-Wide range of artists to choose from (with an intro blurb to each)
-Breakdown of Assessment Objective 1
-Criteria for Success
-Need to motivate a group of GCSE Art & Design students?
-Looking for a decent way to get them to focus in on preparing for their exam?
-Want to show visual examples of high-quality and poor-quality GCSE exam outcomes?
Use this assembly resource to inspire your cohort to start taking some initiative TODAY.
Use this ppt to inspire Art & Design students to pursue an art-related career as well as enable them to create their own gallery.
Featuring:
-Assessment Criteria for task
-Key Vocabulary
-List of Art-related careers
-Link to a video clip on 'What Does a Curator do'
Student mission: To select famous works of art to make a collection and curate an exhibition in my own imaginary art gallery.
-To present my gallery in a unique way on a page in my sketchbook
-To give my gallery a name and use an interesting lettering style to draw the title on my page
-To use the resources provided as well as researching at home to collect images of art to display in my gallery
- To include the title of each artwork and the artists name
Use this easy powerpoint template to improve questioning in the classroom.
-All you have to do is input names of all students in your class
-Press S to start/stop the powerpoint
-engages students & keep everyone attentive
Creative Literacy Drawing Challenge
Includes:
-Printable worksheets for key texts used in years 7, 8 & 9.
Activity: Students use different types of expressive lines and marks to interpret and draw a visual response inspired by the text.
Year 7: Theseus and the Minotaur
Year 8: Act 1, Scene 4, Macbeth
Year 9: Act 1, Scene 1, Romeo & Juliet