Creative Sustainability - Helping Hands

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Foundation Science:

• Living things have basic needs, including food and water (ACSSU002). 

Year 1 Science: 

• Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017).
• Living things live in different places where their needs are met (ACSSU211). 

Year 2 Science:

• Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves (ACSSU030). 

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).

Syllabus outcomes: STe-8NE, ST1-11LW, ST1-10LW, VAS1.1, VAS1.2.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.1.

Relevant parts of Foundation Science achievement standards: Students suggest how the environment affects them and other living things.

Relevant parts of Year 1 Science achievement standards: Students describe changes in their local environment and how different places meet the needs of living things.

Relevant parts of Year 2 Science achievement standards: Students describe changes living things.

Relevant parts of Foundation to Year 2 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students describe artworks they make and view and where and why artworks are made and presented. They make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different techniques and processes.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Foundation to Year 2.

Time required: 60 minutes.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – Lead students in discussion and guide students in drawing hands.

• A range of art tools such as Grasp Crayons, Jumbo Colour Pencils, Connector Paint Box, Jumbo Wax Crayons, Jumbo Connector Pens and enough paper for each student
• Parts of our environment flashcards
• Helping Hands Examples – F & Yr 1
• Helping Hands Example – Yr 2
• Helping Hands Template – Yr 2
• Colour Wheel Factsheet
• Optional: Drawing Techniques handout

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

• Communication
• Creativity
• Community Engagement
• Global Citizenship

Faber-Castell has long understood the importance of creativity to all people, especially to young people. It is also continuously searching for environmentally friendly processes and high-quality materials to enhance children’s creative experience throughout every development phase. For more information about Faber-Castell, click here.