Creative Sustainability - Exploring Colour

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)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS2.2, VAS2.1, VAS2.2.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Relevant parts of Year 3 to 4 achievement standards: Students discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Years 3 & 4 – Visual Arts.

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Facilitate group work and run a colour mixing demonstration.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• One A3 colour printed Primary Colours Wheel
• A paint brush and around a bottle cap of red, yellow and blue paint (watercolour pencils will also work)
• A cup of water for cleaning a paint brush
• Data projector and internet access
• A large selection of connector pens in different hues of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet
• Colour Wheel Factsheet
• Colouring-in outline image

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity

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.