Create Your Mark Creative Competition (Foundation to Year 2)

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Foundation to Year 2 Visual Arts:

• Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM106).
• Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107).
• Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108).

Relevant parts of Foundation to Year 2 achievement standards: Students describe artworks they make and those to which they respond. Students use the elements and processes of arts subjects to make and share artworks that represent ideas.

HASS:

Foundation HASS:

• The reasons why some places are special to people, and how they can be looked after (ACHASSK017)

Year 1 HASS:

• The natural, managed and constructed features of places, their location, how they change and how they can be cared for (ACHASSK031)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS1.1, VAS1.2, GEe-1, GE1-1

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
This lesson is part of the Create Your Mark Creative Competition set of lessons.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Lead students in a walk outdoors to assess school features and guide class discussions around dreams for a brighter future. Support students in planning and creating artworks and submit artworks to the competition.

• Art materials, including Faber-Castell products (see recommendations in the teacher content information)
• Create Your Mark for a Brighter Future Creative Competition details
• Device to share a clip with students
• Space for sharing artworks with an audience (could be a digital or physical space)

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

• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Collaboration

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Faber-Castell. Faber-Castell has long understood the importance of creativity to all people, especially young people. to motivate and express themselves and bring ideas to life. Faber-Castell manufacture high-quality creative materials to enhance children’s creative experiences throughout every development phase.