AC9AVA2E01 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.

explore where, why and how people across cultures, communities and/or other contexts experience visual arts

Elaborations

• 1 investigating a diverse range of artworks made by living Australian artists; for example, artworks from a local, national, state or regional collection
• 2 exploring when, where, how and why First Nations Australians use visual arts, crafts and designs to share knowledge about cultures; for example, during celebrations such as Aboriginal Children's Week, NAIDOC week, Reconciliation Week or to acknowledge significant occasions such as Sorry Day
• 3 using Viewpoints to co-develop questions to explore and investigate ideas and understandings about artworks, craft works or designs; for example, “What do I think is the story in this artwork?”, “What do I recognise in this artwork?”
• 4 using Viewpoints to co-develop questions to explore an artist and their practice; for example, “Who is the artist?”, “When and where was this artwork created?”, “What materials and techniques might this artist have used?”
• 5 identifying similarities and differences in artworks that represent subject matter or ideas they may be exploring in other learning areas; for example, exploring artworks that represent significant events from different times such as celebrations, or subject matter such as living creatures and their relationships with their environment

Related Achievement Standards