AC9AVA4E02 Year 3 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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 how First Nations Australians use visual arts to communicate their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place

Elaborations

• 1 looking at visual artworks that represent the importance of Country/Place and Story for First Nations Australians as a starting point for talking about different ways of seeing the same place and telling stories
• 2 accessing examples of contemporary First Nations Australian artists’ ideas about Country/Place through cultural expressions; for example, works that express spiritual and intellectual connections to the land, sea, sky and waterways, and using Viewpoints to develop questions about the work, such as, “Who are the artists and on what Country was the work created?”, “What can I learn from the artists about this work?”, “What does this work make me think about my own connections to significant places?”
• 3 examining a diverse range of symbols and emblems and learning from people with cultural authority about their importance to First Nations Australians’ identity and culture
• 4 exploring topics in other learning areas, such as the diversity of Nations, by examining a diverse range of cultural expressions or artworks of and by First Nations Australian artists in order to learn from the artists what the works teach us about the subject matter; for example, using Viewpoints to develop questions that explore what is important to them, their identity, stories and their communities, such as, “How does this work represent identity?”, “Are there place-based narratives in this artwork?”, “What do we see?” or ‘What have we learnt that makes us think this?”
• 5 considering what their own cultural connections are as individuals; for example, considering place, language, family customs, values and beliefs and how, as an artist, they can use Viewpoints questions to map ways to use visual arts processes, subject matter and visual conventions to create artworks that communicate their personal connection to place. A typical question is, “Where do I feel most connected to my family, and what symbols, colours, shapes and subject matter could I create to represent this connection?”
• 6 exploring visual conventions, symbols or patterns with representatives of a First Nations Australian community, or resources that are created or co-created by First Nations Australians; for example, exploring artworks that share cultural accounts of Country/Place

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