Creative Sustainability - Self-Portraits for Change

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 & 4 Visual Arts:

• 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)

Year 4 HASS:

• The importance of environments, including natural vegetation, to animals and people (ACHASSK088)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS2.2, GE2-1, GE2-2, GE2-3.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.2.

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.

Relevant parts of Year 4 HASS achievement standards: Students identify the interconnections between components of the environment and between people and the environment.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Year 3 & 4.

Time required: 120+ mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, oversee self-portrait planning and creation.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Art materials (cartridge paper, graphite pencils, erasers, coloured pencils/paints)
• Butcher’s paper
• Marker pens
• Sticky notes, or small pieces of blank scrap paper and sticky take
• Self-portrait Flashcards
• Self-portrait Examples
• Colouring Techniques Handout
• Pencil Colouring Techniques Handout

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Community engagement
• Creativity
• Critical thinking

Faber-Castell has long understood the importance of creativity to all people, especially to young people. It is also continuously searching for environmentally friendly processes and high-quality materials to enhance children’s creative experience throughout every development phase. For more information about Faber-Castell, click here.