Creative Sustainability - Tuning In to Sustainability

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts:

• Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks (ACAVAM115).
• Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks (ACAVAR117).
• Plan the display of artworks to enhance their meaning for an audience (ACAVAM116).

Syllabus outcomes: VAS 3.1 VAS 3.2, VAS 3.4

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.4, OI.5.

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students explain how ideas are represented in artworks they make and view. Students use visual conventions and visual arts practices to express a personal view in their artworks. They demonstrate different techniques and processes in planning and making artworks.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Year 5 & 6

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and oversee art-making activity.

• Student Worksheets: one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Sustainable or unsustainable actions
• A4 cartridge paper
• Art materials including graphite pencils, erasers, sharpeners, rulers and Connector-Pens

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Global citizenship
• Problem solving

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.