Lesson summary
In this lesson, students will discover how natural hazards have been depicted by various artists worldwide and consider how technique, medium and colour have been used to evoke emotion. Further, students will use various materials that illustrate the effects of natural hazards on the Australian landscape. The image featured in the lesson was completed by artist Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- investigate how artists have created artworks to facilitate discourse about hazards
- understand how art can be healing and create resilience in a community.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- discuss how creativity can be used to develop ideas and create individual, community and global awareness about contemporary issues
- create an artwork that shows the effects of a natural hazard on the Australian landscape.
Lesson guides and printables
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum content descriptions:
Year 7 & 8 Art:
- Investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AVA8E01).
- reflect on the ways that they and other artists respond to influences to inform choices they make in their own visual arts practice (AC9AVA8D02).
- select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks representing ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA8C02).
Syllabus outcomes: VAS4.3, VAS4.5.
General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability.
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability.
Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how other artists use visual conventions and viewpoints to communicate ideas and apply this knowledge in their artmaking. They explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning. They evaluate how they and others are influenced by artworks from different cultures, times and places.
Students plan their art-making in response to the exploration of techniques and processes used in their own and others’ artworks.
Resources required
- A device that connects to the internet to present Google slides
- Art folio or art materials such as pencil, paper, or rubber to complete their rough sketch
- Additional materials such as design programs, magazines (for collage), paint, glue, etc
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- Communication
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
- Cultural understanding
- Community engagement
- Empathy
- Social skills
Additional info
We encourage you to undertake the free PD Course How to teach a unit on fire and flood resilience for tips on how to best deliver this lesson.
If you’re concerned about the challenging nature of these topics, consider the free PD Course How to approach trauma in the classroom for information on how best to support your students.
This lesson was made in partnership with
Minderoo Foundation (www.minderoo.org).
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