Creative Sustainability - Animal Cartoons

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 & 4 Visual Arts:

• Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks (ACAVAM111)
• Present artworks and describe how they have used visual conventions to represent their ideas (ACAVAM112)

Year 3 Science:

• Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044)

Year 4 Science:

• Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS2.1, VAS2.2, ST2-10LW, ST2-11LW.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.2.

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks. They plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.

Relevant parts of Year 3 Science achievement standards: Students group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from non-living things. 

Relevant parts of Year 4 Science achievement standards: Students describe relationships that assist the survival of living things.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Year 3 & 4.

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate discussions, lead students in game and outdoor observation, oversee cartoon creation.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Sticky tape or masking tape
• Drawing paper
• Graphite pencils
• Coloured pencils or marker pens
• Animal Names
• Colouring Techniques Handout
• Optional – Cartoon Planning Questions
• Optional – Cartoon Ant Outline

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

• Creativity
• Critical thinking

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