Create Your Mark Creative Competition (Years 3 & 4)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 3 & 4 Visual Arts:

• Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times, including artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to use as inspiration for their own representations (ACAVAM110).
• Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks (ACAVAM111).
• Present artworks and describe how they have used visual conventions to represent their ideas (ACAVAM112).

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 achievement standards: Students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks. Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.

HASS:

Years 3 & 4 Visual Arts:

• Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times, including artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to use as inspiration for their own representations (ACAVAM110)
• Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks (ACAVAM111)
• Present artworks and describe how they have used visual conventions to represent their ideas (ACAVAM112)

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 achievement standards: Students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks. Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability.

This lesson is part of the Create Your Mark Creative Competition set of lessons.

Time required: 125+ minutes.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Lead students in class discussions and brainstorming activity. Support students in planning and creating artworks, and submit artworks to the competition.

• Art materials, including Faber-Castell products (see recommendations in the teacher content information)
• Create Your Mark for a Brighter Future Creative Competition details
• Device to share a clip with students
• Planning table (one for each group)
• Space for sharing artworks with an audience (could be a digital or physical space)

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Creativity

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Faber-Castell. Faber-Castell has long understood the importance of creativity to all people, especially young people. to motivate and express themselves and bring ideas to life. Faber-Castell manufacture high-quality creative materials to enhance children’s creative experiences throughout every development phase.