AC9AVA2D01 Year 1 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

experiment and play with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials

Elaborations

• 1 playing with a range of natural and/or constructed materials to experiment with visual conventions and visual arts processes; for example, creating mud sculptures, or using sticks, leaves and playdough to explore texture
• 2 unpacking a surprise bag of everyday tools and materials, and working silently in small groups to make something within limitations; for example, using materials of only one colour or making sculptural forms from paper or cardboard using only folding and tearing processes
• 3 using Viewpoints to develop questions to reflect on their arts experiences; for example, “What was challenging about working in a limited timeframe?”, “What was something new that I discovered about the material?”, “What failures led to new discoveries?”
• 4 identifying the difference between open lines and closed shapes; digitally filling a selection or colour block using a collage of closed shapes to form silhouettes of recognisable objects, people or other living things
• 5 examining artworks and trialling “layer + layer + layer” as a way of building surfaces, colour, texture and interest; for example, experimenting to create a layered world with pastels, then watercolour, ink and wax, and once the experiment is completed, identifying how each material could be used in a future artwork
• 6 exploring visual conventions using a wide range of materials; for example, creating lines using media such as pastels, chalk, paint, ripped paper, textiles and markers; or going on a “line hunt” to identify and photograph the different lines they see around their school environment using a digital camera, or creating rubbings

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