Lesson Focus Learning Area Year Level Implementation

Date 17/4/18
Create and display artworks The Arts - Visual Arts Year 1
to communicate ideas to an Duration
(Foundation – 2)
audience (ACAVAM108)
45mins – 1 hour
Theme – ‘My place, My
Friends’
Prior knowledge of learners (What do they already know about this concept/topic/skill?)
In Foundation to Year 2, learning in The Arts builds on the Early Years Learning Framework. Students
are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of
wellbeing and developing their connection with and contribution to the world. (ACARA, 2018)
Students have a basic knowledge of how to use materials and utensils associated with the visual arts.
Students have prior knowledge of places unique to their environments e.g. school playground, back
yard.
Safe Practices – Students have an understanding of how to move safely around the room and while
using art materials
Links to Curriculum (identify relevant Strands and Content Descriptors – these may be provided by the
class teacher
Content Descriptions
Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108)
Elaborations
 sharing ideas with their classmates about the representational choices they made in their
artwork
 talking about ideas such as themes when displaying artworks, for example, at the local gallery
or in their classroom
 Considering viewpoints – meanings and interpretations: For example – What did this artwork
or design make you think about and why? What figures/shapes can you see in the artwork?
How has the artist treated the figures/shapes to convey their idea or meaning
 making a decision about how to display their artwork to share their ideas
(ACARA, 2018)
*Area of focus is highlighted
General Capabilities
Personal and social capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability
Critical and Creative thinking Literacy
Cross-Curricular Capabilities
Sustainability
Learning objectives Learning objectives
At the end of this lesson the learners will know: At the end of this lesson the learners will be able
to:
How to apply art practices e.g. brush stroke
application, safe practices with art materials. Create a visual representation of an environment
that is unique to them by using art mediums.
Be able to produce a visual artwork that
communicate their ideas to an audience.
Evidence of learning (checks for learning/assessment)
Students use the elements and processes of arts subjects to make and share artworks that represent
ideas. (ACARA, 2018)
Completed visual art piece that portrays and idea.
Students can verbally discuss their work with their peers.
Resources
Please see attached.

Lesson Overview
In this lesson the students will be creating an ‘impressionist’ style painting of the student’s playground
or a feature in the playground.

1. Lesson Introduction (introduce the topic and engage the learners)

Time What will you do What the learners will do

10-15 *Teacher organise resources onto a

minutes table before session.

Present students with the lesson focus

and the concepts that will be learnt in Students will be at their desks or art benches
this session. Teacher to present
students with the three focus paintings
(Resource A, B and C) Students discuss what their favourite features of
the playground are.
Teacher to jot down on the board the
playground features. * Any questions? *Look for understanding?

Talk about Learning objectives – What

they will know and what they will be
Students to watch a short YouTube (Clip 1) on
able to do.
the ‘Art Rules’
Explain Art lesson rules
Students to observe clip.
Teacher to play short YouTube (Clip 2)
Students to collect art materials after teacher’s
clip of Children’s impressionist artwork.
instructions.
Teacher discuss and model techniques
to be used.

Teacher to play a short YouTube clip

about Monet (Clip 3)
2. Lesson Body (Teaching the content through specific strategies)
Time What will you do What the learners will do

25-30 Supervise students to collect and Once students have received their art materials
minutes distribute art materials. they are to commence their works of art.

Support students to participate in the (Making)

activity.
*If students finish early, encourage them to add
Support students who need additional more details to their piece or create an
support. additional artwork that portrays another aspect
of the playground.
* While the students are creating their
artwork teacher will play YouTube clip
of Monet’s artwork in the background
*Once students have completed their artwork,
on silent (Clip 4)
they are to return any art materials to the art
table and bring their pictures to the carpet area.

3. Lesson Conclusion (concluding activities, review, check for learning)

Time What will you do What the learners will do

10 – 15 Teacher to invite students to discuss
minutes their artwork and explain what the
focus of their artwork was and why they
decided to draw about that part of the
playground.
Teacher to play a Story based on the
work of Monet (Clip 5)
*While students are watching the clip,
teacher is to hang art on the classroom
art wall.
Students are to discuss their artwork and give
feedback to the other students about what they
liked in their peers work.
*Feedback from students about this activity;
what they liked? What they didn’t like? What
they found challenging? (Responding)
Students are to place their artwork in a pile for
the teacher to display and then find a
comfortable spot to watch a short story.

Lesson Evaluation
Were the learning objectives achieved? Why/Why not?

What worked well?

What could be improved for next time?

 Resources

Australian Impressionism

Resource A

Arthur STREETON

Duneed, Victoria, Australia 1867 – Olinda, Victoria, Australia 1943

 England 1897-1906, 1907-24

Golden summer, Eaglemont

1889Place made: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Materials & Technique: paintings, oil on canvas
Primary Insc: signed and dated lower left in oil paint, 'Arthur Streeton / 1889'. inscribed lower left in
oil paint, 'Pastoral'. inscribed lower right in oil paint, 'Eaglemont'.

Dimensions: 813 h x 1526 w mm framed (overall) 1245 h x 1957 w x 190 d mm ; weight 71 kg

Acknowledgement: Purchased 1995

Accession No: NGA 95.604
Resource B

Jane SUTHERLAND

Scotland 1853 – Australia 1928

 Australia from 1864

A cabbage garden

[A cabbage patch]

1896Place made: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Materials & Technique: paintings, oil on canvas
Primary Insc: signed l.l., brown oil paint "J. Sutherland", not dated

Dimensions: 51.1 h x 76.4 w cm framed (overall) 753 h x 1010 w x 55 d mm

Acknowledgement: Purchased 1978

Accession No: NGA 78.1298
French Impressionism

Resource C

Claude MONET
France 1840 – 1926

Waterlily pond, green harmony

[Le bassin aux nymphéas, harmonie verte] 1899
oil on canvas
canvas 89.0 (h) x 93.5 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo 1911
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
YouTube Clips
1. Art Classroom Rules

https://youtu.be/RpD4roIk5Rg

2. KIDS ART STUDIO-IMPRESSIONISM 2013 (students work)

https://youtu.be/rqQ1z8E9Mt4

3. All About Claude Monet (Children’s short story)

https://youtu.be/7iEGeuVeUEg

4. 650+ Greatest Monet Paintings (HD 1080p) Claude Monet Impressionist Silent Slideshow &
Screensaver

https://youtu.be/xNLjdLadPy0

5. Katie and the Waterlily Pond (Children’s story)

https://youtu.be/lEDh0e5Aydo

Materials and Equipment

* Plain white paper (Preferably recycled)

* Soft Pastels

* Tissues
Additional resources
Biography of Mary Cassatt for Kids: Famous Artists for Children – FreeSchool

https://youtu.be/EzElAusnaAs

IMPRESSIONISM FOR KIDS

https://youtu.be/I-9IazLhShs

Specific Teacher Resources

Jessica Ballsley - Keep Calm and Teach Art: 10 Strategies for Managing the Art Room

https://youtu.be/MT8PRa3aeww

Additional teaching ideas based on lesson focus

ANZAC DAY

Paint a field of poppies like Monet

https://youtu.be/9HDt3TOLvLc

Field of Flowers: A Preschool/Early Elementary Painting Lesson

https://youtu.be/AWJI4laKwJo

Example of Final product

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Art Classroom Rules. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpD4roIk5Rg

Biography of Mary Cassatt for Kids: Famous Artists for Children - FreeSchool. (2018). YouTube.
Retrieved 12 April 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzElAusnaAs

Field of Flowers: A Preschool/Early Elementary Painting Lesson. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April
2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJI4laKwJo

IMPRESSIONISM FOR KIDS. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-9IazLhShs

Jessica Ballsley - Keep Calm and Teach Art: 10 Strategies for Managing the Art Room. (2018).
YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT8PRa3aeww

Katie and the Waterlily Pond. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
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KIDS ART STUDIO-IMPRESSIONISM 2013. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
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Masterpieces from Paris - | Claude MONET | Waterlily pond, green harmony [Le bassin aux
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Paint a field of poppies like Monet. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
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STREETON , Arthur | Golden summer, Eaglemont . (2018). Artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 12 April

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SUTHERLAND , Jane | A cabbage garden . (2018). Artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 12 April 2018,

from https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=116412

650+ Greatest Monet Paintings (HD 1080p) Claude Monet Impressionist Silent Slideshow &
Screensaver. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNLjdLadPy0