Creative Sustainability - The Art of Conscious Consumption

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 9 & 10 Visual Arts:

• Conceptualise and develop representations of themes, concepts or subject matter to experiment with their developing personal style, reflecting on the styles of artists, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM125).
• Manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and represent their own artistic intentions (ACAVAM126).
• Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127).
• Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention (ACAVAM128).

Syllabus outcomes: VAS5.1, VAS5.3, VAS5.4, VAS5.5, VAS5.6

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability.

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: By the end of Year 10, students evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view. They evaluate artworks and displays from different cultures, times and places. They analyse connections between visual conventions, practices and viewpoints that represent their own and others’ ideas. They identify influences of other artists on their own artworks. Students manipulate materials, techniques and processes to develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter in their artworks.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Visual Arts – Year 9 & 10.

Time required: 180 mins.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Student’s own Visual Arts Process Diaries, Pitt Artist pens or Playing & Learning Brush Markers (class set), colour wheels,
• Optional: Colour Theory Factsheet

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

• Communication
• Community Engagement
• Collaboration
• 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.