Positive Mental Health

• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding
• Empathy
• Social skills
• Collaboration

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Visual Arts

• reflect on the way they and other visual artists respond to influences to inspire, develop and resolve choices they make in their own visual arts practice (AC9AVA10D02).

• select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that reflect personal expression, and represent and/or challenge, ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA10C02)

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Intercultural Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking

Syllabus outcomes:

• Visual Arts, Representation, Outcome 5.4: Investigate the world as a source of ideas, concepts and subject matter in the visual arts
• Visual Arts, Resolution, Outcome 5.6: Demonstrates developing technical accomplishment and refinement in making artworks

Cross-curriculum priority:

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students can analyse how and why visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated in artworks they create and/or experience. Students draw on inspiration from multiple sources to generate and develop ideas for artworks. They document and reflect on their own visual arts practice. They use knowledge of visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that represent and/or communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Target 4.1 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

Target 4.5 - By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

Target 4.7 - By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• Access to internet links embedded in the lessons 
• Device capable of presenting audio and video to the class
• Student Worksheets - one copy per student
• Writing materials

In the Making of a Hoodie Podcast, the host, Jack Manning Bancroft, gathers with groups of unlikely connections to dive deep on challenges, topics and issues, explore guest stories and design a hoodie together to collectively represent them.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - Discussion of mental health and sensitive concepts.