Creative Sustainability - Pencil Shaving Sketches

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts:

• Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks (ACAVAM115).
• Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions (ACAVAM114).

Syllabus outcomes: VAS3.1, VAS3.2

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.4, OI.5.

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express a personal view in their artworks. They demonstrate different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Year 5 & 6

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – show videos, facilitate discussion and oversee art activity.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Print-out: The Cycle of the EcoPencil (A3 size, enough for one between two if possible)
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• A3 Paper, Colour Grip Pencils, Goldfaber Graphite Pencils, PVC-free erasers, Finepens, PVA glue and sharpeners

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

• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Empathy
• Ethical Understanding
• Problem Solving

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.