Scope and sequence: Forms Early Stage 1
Students learn about the properties of different media, tools and techniques. With guidance from the teacher, they experiment with these to suggest the appearances of things and create different effects. Students explore drawing, painting, printmaking and construction techniques including overlapping, repeating, layering, joining, modelling and block printing. Students learn about visual effects that can be created using particular techniques, such as layering of images, creating patterns and colourmixing. Students investigate the expressive potential of different media, tools and techniques in a more intentional way in an attempt to capture likenesses. Students begin to understand that they make artworks for various reasons and that they can explore the use of certain techniques to achieve effects, e.g. distortion, exaggeration, change in colour and scale. Students consider using different viewpoints, focusing on details, colour, shading, tone and light to emphasise particular features and interpret subject matter.
Drawing
Painting and collage
Printmaking
Sculpture and 3D forms
Our animals
Me, myself, I
Our animals No place like home
Stage 1
Creature feature
Beat around the bush
The animal in me Creature feature
This sporting life This sporting life
Stage 2
Students learn to use and experiment with particular techniques and tools and to use these in a variety of ways to make artworks. They create effects to suggest such things as close-ups, middle distance, long distance views, mood and atmosphere. Students learn to emphasise or exaggerate certain qualities by focusing on details, using distortion and elongation, changing viewpoint or enlarging or reducing the scale. Students investigate construction techniques and spatial arrangements in three-dimensional work. Students have some understanding of artistic intentions and select and use particular tools and techniques to create intended effects. Artrage Figure it out Students have become interested in developing skills and techniques using a variety of media so they can capture likenesses in their artworks. Students learn to use a repertoire of techniques, e.g. colour, tone, light, scale and visual devices in innovative ways. They begin to understand that as they alter the material qualities of their artworks they may change their meanings. Students examine a range of concepts and their relationships to selected forms. Students may make artworks that involve working in groups, e.g. installations, murals, videos. Evoking the environment Steel, stacks and steam
Transport transformations
Still life with flowers
Transport transformations
Stage 3
Steel, stacks and steam Face it
My identity Face it
Reference: Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus Visual arts: Outcomes, Indicators, Stage statements, learn to and learn about statements, implications for learning and teaching statements