Everyday Things
Added: 24 Aug 2014
Contributor:
Louise Mullane
Resource type:
Guide/notes
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Project
A project integrating visual arts, history and science. Notes include questions, a suggested approach, ideas for presentation and websites to research.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- Visual Arts
Strand: Drawing
Strand unit: Making Drawings
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- draw from observation
- draw imaginative themes using inventive pattern and detail
- experiment with the marks, lines, shapes, textures, patterns and tones that can be made with different drawing instruments on a range of surfaces, demonstrating increasing sensitivity and control
- make drawings based on themes reflecting broadening interests, experiences and feelings
Suggestions for use: Make a decision about whether children are to work indvidually or in co-operative groups. Individual children might choose a single everyday object to research or a group mght choose one of the outlined collections.
