Creative Sustainability - Posters that Pop

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts:

• Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks (ACAVAM115).
• Plan the display of artworks to enhance their meaning for an audience (ACAVAM116).

Syllabus outcomes: VAS3.1, VAS3.2

General capabilities:  Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students explain how ideas are communicated in artworks they make and to which they respond … Students structure elements and processes of arts subjects to make artworks that communicate meaning. They work collaboratively to share artworks for audiences, demonstrating skills and techniques.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Year 5 & 6

Time required: 90 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, guide students in their art making.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Butcher’s paper, grey lead pencils, Artist Brush Pens, Connector Pens, Colour Grip Pencils and Penliners
• Erasers, rulers, sharpeners
• Art Elements and Principles Factsheet

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
• Social Skills

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.