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Unit Four : Creative Explorer - Visual Art
Introducing the Work of Different Artists
Introduction
This is the third opportunity for you to learn about one of the arts disciplines in depth and to make links with other artists.
Visual Art is the main focus for this unit.
Beginning with ideas from Creative Explorer CD-ROM learners then experiment, develop and refine their work in a working space away from the computer.
Strands
Developing Practical Knowledge in Visual Art
Developing Ideas in Visual Art
Communicating and Interpreting meaning in the Visual Arts
Understanding the Visual Arts in Context
Essential Skills
Problem Solving:
- Inquire and research, and explore, generate and develop ideas
- Try out innovative and original ideas design
Communication:
- Convey and receive information, instruction, ideas and feelings appropriately and effectively in a range of different cultural, language and social contexts
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Achievement Objectives
- Apply knowledge of elements and principles and use techniques, tools and processes to compose images and make objects, employing a variety of materials and media
- Use established art-making conventions to initiate and develop ideas in response to a variety of motivations
- Explore and describe how technologies used to communicate ideas influence meaning
- Investigate the functions of objects and images in past and present cultures and identify contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.
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Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Locate Fiona Pardington (Visual Arts) and select her introductory page
- Use set questions to gain information about Fiona's life, work and art ideas
- Increase own arts literacy by exploring pathways, process and works about Fiona and Robyn Kahukiwa
- Make links with other artists on Creative Explorer by tracking common ideas
- Navigate around Creative Explorer with ease, locating other pathways, shortcuts, linking devices
- Using the activity on photography, compose your own picture and print a copy
- Find other sources of motivation and create own composition using photographic images
- Develop own set of ideas for learning in, through and about visual art for your students.
Links to other Learning Areas
English
Strand: Visual language - Viewing and Presenting
Achievement Objectives:
- Respond to and dicuss meanings, ideas and effects, identifying the purposes for which the visual features are used and combined
- Combine visual features to communicate information, ideas or narrative through computer
- Identify important features of visual language and use them to create particular meanings and effects
- View and use visual texts to retrieve, interpret, organise, and present information coherently.
Technology
Strand: Technological Knowledge and Understanding
Achievement Objectives:
- Explain why people within specific technological areas carry out activities in particular ways
- Identify strategies used to communicate and promote a technological idea or development.
Social Studies
Strand: Culture and Heritage
Achievement Objectives:
- Why and how individuals pass on and sustain their culture and heritage.
Strand: Continuity and Change
Achievement Objectives:
- How the ideas and actions of people in the past changed the lives of others
- How the past is recorded and remembered in different ways.
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