Meaningful Moments: Creating Collage Artwork

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity
• communication
• cultural understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 & 6 Visual Art:

• use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA6C01)

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students select and use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: VAS1.3

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

• Coloured card
• Device capable of sharing artworks with students
• Glue
• Old magazines and newspapers
• Scissors.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - introduce artworks to students and engage them in a discussion around the artworks, oversee art-making process.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.