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Students create a review (either written or podcast) of an exhibition for an online newspaper. Students will load their articles or podcasts onto a blog and will then assess the articles or podcasts of other students.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

analsye how artists communicate artistic intentions
recognize visual conventions used by artists
understand how to write an online article or create a podcast, and how to assess the articles or podcasts of others
think about what environmental issues are important to young people and how well these issues are represented in environmental art.

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Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 and 8 Visual Arts:

Analyse how artists use visual conventions in artworks (ACAVAR123)
Identify and connect specific features and purposes of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their art-making, starting with Australian artworks including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR124)

Year 9 and 10 Visual Arts:

Evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view to inform their future art making (ACAVAR130)
Analyse a range of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their visual art-making, starting with Australian artworks, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and consider international artworks (ACAVAR131)

Year 7 English:

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, selecting aspects of subject matter and particular language, visual, and audio features to convey information and ideas (ACELY1725)
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to confidently create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts (ACELY1728)

Year 8 English:

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate (ACELY1736)
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create, edit and publish texts imaginatively (ACELY1738)

Year 9 English:

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746)
Review and edit students’ own and others’ texts to improve clarity and control over content, organisation, paragraphing, sentence structure, vocabulary and audio/visual features (ACELY1747)
Use a range of software, including word processing programs, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts (ACELY1748)

Year 10 English:

Syllabus Outcomes: EN4-4B, EN5-1A, EN4-2A, EN5-2A, VAS4.3, VAS4.7, VAS4.8, VAS4.9, VAS4.10, VAS5.7, VAS5.8, VAS5.9, VAS5.10.

Time required: 2 x 48 mins (plus time for viewing exhibition)

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – oversee activity.

Access to an environmentally themed exhibition
computers or tablets
Internet access
Student Worksheet
Peer Assessment Rubric – Writing
Peer Assessment Rubric – Podcast
Tips for making a great podcast
Tips for writing online

This lesson is part of the CLIMARTE unit. The unit is designed to help students build their knowledge of climate change by exploring the topic through the arts. By harnessing the creative power of the Arts, CLIMARTE aim to inform, engage and inspire real action on climate change. Following this lesson plan is an ideal way to expose your kids to climate change through the medium of art.

CLIMARTE - Write an exhibition review

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