A Scoilnet collection on renaissance art. Folders include PowerPoints, worksheets, notes, sample answers and paintings for Uccello, masaccio, botticelli, high renaissance, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphaeli, Revision and link to PDST resources.
View full descriptionShaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art (13 April – 7 July 2019) was an exhibition exploring the relationship between people and the natural world. The show included the work of fifty artists, spanning 250 years, depicting views and environments from across the whole of the island of Ireland. This rich collection of historic and contemporary work provides the ideal stimulus for creative cross-curricular lesson plans devised by teacher Sinéad Hall.
This resource is designed to be used in the classroom, and takes key works from the exhibition as the starting point for imaginative workshops incorporating Geography, History, Science, Art and English. Looking and responding questions for each artwork underpin every lesson, and enable students to develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills. Lessons explore themes and environments from Boglands to the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme. Activities include growing plants from seed, writing a ‘day in the life’ of someone living in a Norman castle, and constructing a diorama. Each lesson includes a wealth of suggested follow-on activities and online resources, and the pack demonstrates how art and creativity can be embedded across the primary curriculum.
We want this resource to be used in classrooms across the country, taking the exhibition beyond the Gallery walls and continuing to inspire teachers and students after the show is packed away.
The themes explored are timely, relevant and interconnected and will provide students with a deeper understanding of the past, present and future of Irish landscapes.
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand unit: The Local Natural Environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Boglands
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand unit: The Local Natural Environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Boglands
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand unit: The Local Natural Environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Boglands
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Look & respond to key works of Irish Landscape Art and use as the basis of cross-curricular lesson plans
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Nature
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Look & respond to key works of Irish Landscape Art and use as the basis of cross-curricular lesson plans
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Nature
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Look & respond to key works of Irish Landscape Art and use as the basis of cross-curricular lesson plans
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Nature
Strand: Continuity & Change Over Time
Strand unit: Continuity and change in the local environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Houses & Homes
Strand: Continuity & Change Over Time
Strand unit: Homes and Houses
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Houses & Homes
Strand: Continuity & Change Over Time
Strand unit: Homes, housing & urban developments
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Houses & Homes
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Plants
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Plants
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Plants
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Plants
Strand: Oral Language
Strand unit: Communicating
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Innovation
Strand: Oral Language
Strand unit: Competence and Confidence in Using Language
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Innovation
Strand: Oral Language
Strand unit: Competence and Confidence in Using Language
Suggestions for use: Cross-curricular lesson plan exploring Innovation
Lesson Plan for teachers on how to create a Starry Night, a Van Gogh Crayon Resist. Includes link to original Starry Night painting plus a link to a virtual reality tour of the Van Gogh Museum website.
View full descriptionStrand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: As an extension to the lesson, students may visit the Van Gogh Museum website and follow the virtual reality tour.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: As an extension to the lesson, students may visit the Van Gogh Museum website and follow the virtual reality tour.
Classroom activities and ideas to - tell a story without words; carving or painting your own cave painting. Clear step-by-step guide for each activity
View full descriptionStrand: Early People /Ancient Societies
Strand unit: Stone Age Peoples
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Good for station teaching.
Strand: Early People /Ancient Societies
Strand unit: Stone Age Peoples
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Useful for station teaching.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: good for station teaching.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: good for station teaching.
Ideas on how to present and develop a class about Springtime using different fabrics and fibres. Includes activities, evaluation methods and ICT possibilities.
View full descriptionStrand: Fabric and Fibre
This collection on Vincent Van Gogh contains information on his life, lesson plans on how to paint in his unique style and even songs that were inspired by him. Click on the tabs below for more information and if you feel brave enough, test your Van Gogh knowledge with our teacher designed quiz.
View full descriptionPeople and portraits are at the heart of the Gallery’s collection. This schools resource has been designed as both an introduction to portraiture and an in-depth exploration of key works in the National Portrait Collection. Primary and Post-Primary teachers can use it as a starting point for tailored lesson plans and all activities are adaptable for different ages and abilities. Looking and responding questions underpin the resource and enable students to develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills. Each portrait is accompanied by suggested activities that allow for creative practical exploration of the work and encourage students to further develop their understanding of the diversity of portraiture.
In 2019 we launched the Zurich Young Portrait Prize, an inclusive art competition for children and young people, up to the age of 18, of all abilities, from across the island of Ireland. We hope this resource will provide inspiration and ideas for your students to enter the Prize.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Looking and responding to works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Potential to work across all six strands of the Visual Arts Curriculum Cross-curricular links with history, language & literacy
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 01. Analyse Work
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 02. Respond to Artwork
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 03. Critique an Artwork
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 07. Examine Artist Methods & their Artwork
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 08. Historical & Contemporary Visual Art
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 09. Debate the Value Placed on Artwork
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 10. Art Elements & Design Principles in Art
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: 01. Art
Strand unit: 13. Identify Media Used to Create Artwork
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Key Skills: Being Creative Communicating Managing Information and Thinking
Strand: History & Appreciation
Strand unit: Art in Ireland
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Strand: History & Appreciation
Strand unit: European Art
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Strand: Art
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Strand: Module 1 - Individuality & Identity
Strand unit: 1. Research
Suggestions for use: Critically analysing works in the Gallery's collection
Ideas for creating your own portraits
Notes on Michelangelo with a focus on his sculptures 'The Pieta' and 'David' and a focus on the paintings 'The Creation of Adam' and 'The Last Judgement'.
View full descriptionStrand: History & Appreciation
Strand unit: European Art
Suggestions for use: Notes for students to use when reflecting on lesson: Michelangelo
Students have the opportunity to learn about Vincent Van Gogh as they create a painting in his style.
View full descriptionStrand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Can be used by the teacher on the whiteboard.
Notes put together by Caroline Mc Corriston for Leonardo Da Vinci, renaissance artist. The notes focus on the paintings 'The Last Supper' and 'Mona Lisa'
View full descriptionStrand: History & Appreciation
Strand unit: European Art
Suggestions for use: Notes for students to use when reflecting on lesson: Leonardo Da Vinci
Notes on common part B and C sections to the question - 'Discuss the High Renaissance period.... and how did the work of Leonardo/ Michelangelo/ Raphael contribute to the High Renaissance?...Notes compiled by art teacher, Caroline Mc Corriston.
View full descriptionStrand: History & Appreciation
Strand unit: European Art
Suggestions for use: Notes for students to use when reflecting on lesson: High Renaissance.
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