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Toyota Dream Car Art Contest - Illustrating a Short Story
Lesson6 of 13 in this unit
PrimaryYear 3 - 4EnglishHumanities and Social SciencesGeographyThe ArtsEnvironmentalSustainability
Lesson Summary
In this lesson, students design a dream car create an artwork to represent their ideas that will be submitted to the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. This contest encourages and inspires creative expression and imagination in students – some amazing ideas are born from dreams! Students read The Lorax by Dr Seuss, and analyse the text, imagery, and message, focusing on how the Lorax was trying to protect his local environment. Students then identify some of the environmental features of their local area and write a short story about how they could help to look after these features with the use of a dream car. Students then illustrate their dream car, identifying the visual representations used in The Lorax and incorporating these into their own illustrations.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand how messages about our world can be conveyed through stories
- understand how imagery can be used in texts to convey a mood
- understand how to communicate a message through art
- develop and practice art-making techniques
Success criteria
Students can:
- analyse a text to draw out its underlying message
- plan and write a short story
- plan and create artworks
- use different drawing/painting techniques
- engage in group and class discussions
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