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Resilient Australia - The Magnitude of Natural Hazards Drawing and Analysis
Lesson1 of 5 in this unit
SecondaryYear 5 - 6The ArtsVisual ArtsEnvironmentalClimate ChangeDisaster resilience
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.
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