Digital Art

Lesson 7

Ally Van de Burgt

Level Art discipline(s) Time frame

5/6 Digital Art, ICT, Sustainability

90 minutes

Lesson overview: To create digital avatars of the characters from the Dr Seuss Book The Lorax. Digital media applications will be used to create the avatars.
Students will be told to use the creativity and previous knowledge of the characters to use colour, shape and characteristics. The children will need to make their
avatars

Learning Intention: To cover the characters of The Lorax, what is sustainability and to create Avatars from the characters of The Lorax using Digital Media.

Learning outcome: To finish character avatars from the Lorax using digital media keeping in the theme of art elements and sustainability

Throughout the procedure aspect of the lesson plans: highlighted in red is each phase of the 5e learning model. This is the teaching strategy implanted for Media.

Victorian Curriculum Levels:

Digital Technologies:

Develop simple solutions as visual programs(VCDTCD024)

Media Art

Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text when telling stories (VCAMAM026)

Sustainability
Types of natural vegetation and the significance of vegetation to the environment, the importance of environments to animals and people, and different views on
how they can be protected; the use and management of natural resources and waste, and different views on how to do this sustainably (VCGGK082)

(VCAA, N.D)

Key questions for this lesson:

Why are we creating Avatars?

How does the Lorax cover deforestation?

What is sustainability?

Key Arts vocabulary you want to introduce or re-enforce in this lesson:

Media Art, Media, Applications, Avatars, Deforestation, Sustainability

List of materials and resources needed for this lesson:

iPads: 1 per pair of students

Interactive white board

YouTube clip how to draw the Lorax https://youtube.be/-PmPWBUm7qk

Sketch application, downloaded from the app store

You Doodle downloaded from the app store

Time allowed Focus Questions Procedure Resources Assessment

ENGAGE

15 mins Why do you Go through Sketch Get the students to ask or answer questions on what the task involves
think we are the YouTube
creating clip, and the
character applications
avatars? and pairs
students
How does this
together ,
keep with our
according to
theme of
social skills, You doodle
forestation and
compatibility,
sustainability?
and
intelligence.

https://youtube.be/-
PmPWBUm7qk

60 mins Has everyone EXPLORE Sketch, You Doodle Observe the pairs work together, discuss the creation of their avatars
got their iPads? and which application the pair chose to create their avatars

Does anybody
Let the
not know what
children work
to do in this
with the
learning hour?
applications of
 sketch to
create a
Remember to
sketch of the
keep in mind
character,
that
then insert
sustainability
that sketch
needs to be a
into the
part of the
application
movie of the
sketch guru to
next lesson so
colour and
keep to that
create
theme
characters
assigned to
the pair.

10 mins The avatars that the students Questions and observations.

have created on the iPad.
What avatar did EXPLAIN
you create and
why? What
colours did you Children sit
use? Did you with their
find the apps pairs and sit in
easy? Do you a circle, one
think that your pair at a time
avatar looks like gets
the character questioned on
you wanted to the creation of
create? the avatars
from the other
students
 Discuss Children in a Students, book review Get the children to repeat the next lesson out loud.
tomorrows circle, listening template.
5 mins
lesson to teachers
instruction.

Digital Art

Lesson 8

Ally Van De Burgt

Level Art discipline(s) Time frame

5/6 Digital Art, ICT, Sustainability 90 minutes

Lesson overview: Students will continue to work on their creation of Avatars within their pair, with software movie maker, on the iPads. The avatars will
be finalised with choices of characteristics, colours and accessories and placed into moving media piece, so that the avatars come to life with music and
text. Students will be expected to utilise their previous experience with movie maker and digital devices. Children will use the movie in keeping with theme
of sustainability and deforestation so that it continues within the unit of work,

Learning intention: To create a mini movie, using movie maker to bring the avatars to life, keeping with the theme Deforestation and Sustainability

Success Criteria: Created a movie with Lorax avatars with text and sound in a moving media piece.

Victorian Curriculum Links:

Digital Technologies:

Develop simple solutions as visual programs(VCDTCD024)

Media Art

Use media technologies to create time and space through the manipulation of images, sounds and text when telling stories (VCAMAM026)

Sustainability

Types of natural vegetation and the significance of vegetation to the environment, the importance of environments to animals and people, and different
views on how they can be protected; the use and management of natural resources and waste, and different views on how to do this
sustainably (VCGGK082)

Key questions for this lesson:

Does everyone have their avatar nearly finished? Does everyone know how to get their avatar into movie maker? How does movie maker work? What
music and movements can you create with your avatar?

Key Arts vocabulary you want to introduce or re-enforce in this lesson:

Digital Art, Digital Media, Applications, Movie Maker, Avatars, Deforestation, Sustainability
List of materials and resources needed for this lesson:

iPads: 1 per pair of students

Movie Maker: comes as an application on iPads.

Avatars previously created

Time allowed Focus Questions Procedure Resources Assessment

ELABORATE

10mins What are going to be doing Get children into the previous pair, Movie Maker. Have the
today? with another pair that have different characters,
avatar characters, so that they can Lorax, Granny,
Does everyone know their pair?
use all the characters in the movie. OHare, Dan,
Rose, Wesley,
Sie, Marie in the
movie, to the
sound track let
it grow.

60 Mins Does everyone have the avatars Children copy and paste their avatars Movie Maker, Avatars Observe the
into the movie maker screen? into movie maker, so they can children whilst
manipulate and make the characters the children are
come to life with movement and working. See
music. how they can
add the music,
how they
choose to move
the characters.
25 mins What does everybody think of EVALUATE Summative
this movie? Is the movie missing Assessment
One group at a time, they will
anything? rubric in
present their movie that the children
appendix.
created using iMovie.