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Creative Sustainability - Designing a Sustainable Space
Lesson4 of 5 in this unit
SecondaryYear 7 - 8The ArtsMedia ArtsVisual ArtsEnvironmentalSustainabilityEconomicDesign ThinkingIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Lesson Summary
Students explore their school environment and consider how it makes them feel, focusing on aspects of sustainability. They identify areas in their school that could be enhanced to become more environmentally, socially or economically sustainable. With this information in mind, students imagine and create a design that represents their ideas on what a sustainable school would look like. Students use colour pencil drawing techniques to create their design, which will the feature on the front of a postcard students write on to share their description of a sustainable school.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- consider ways in which their school environment could be more sustainable, socially, economically and environmentally
- understand the principles of sustainability and how they can be incorporated into design
- use imagination, innovation and problem solving skills to create a design of the future
- understand a simplified design process and learn to experiment with drawing techniques.
Success criteria
Students can:
- understand how a specific area of the school could be improved to make it more sustainable, and clearly communicate their ideas in visual form
- design an artwork that illustrates an ideal 'Utopian' school environment that is sustainable
- design and create an artwork using selected drawing techniques.
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