1. Using Victorian Curriculum to plan learning in Visual Arts F - 6
Webinar, 26 April, 2017

2. Session overview Victorian Curriculum: The Arts – Visual Arts F - 6
Content
Organisation
Unit planning
Sample unit

3. Learning in Visual Arts
Focus on the practices of visual artists in different cultures, contexts and environments. Thinking, responding, making.
Viewpoints of responding and making artworks through the practices of the artist and the engagement of the audience.
Key ideas and issues in contemporary art practice that reflect beliefs and values of society.
Visual conventions: underlying structure of artworks. Style, art elements and art principles.
Materials, techniques and processes that are used in artistic practice.

4. Visual Arts strands Strand Explore and Represent Ideas Media Practices
Present and Perform
Respond and Interpret
Explore ideas, experiences, observations, imagination
…. artworks and artists from different cultures and times.
Experiment, select, apply
Materials, techniques, processes, technologies and visual conventions.
Create and display artworks considering audiences, ideas and artists’ intentions and meaning.
… reflecting, questioning, analysing and evaluating as a viewer and artist
…Identify specific features and purposes of artworks from different periods of time and cultures.

5. Content Descriptions & Elaborations
Level 4 Content Description
Elaboration sample
Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times to express ideas in visual artworks.
Researching artworks of different styles and artists from different times and cultures, to inspire their own expression of ideas, for example, in forms such as printmaking and drawing, and styles such as realism or expressionism
Use materials, techniques, technologies and processes, and explore visual conventions to make artworks.
Practising a variety of techniques and using various technologies to find different ways of interpreting a theme and/or subject matter, for example, making a simple animation or storybook
Create and display artworks, describing how ideas are expressed to an audience.
Discussing how artworks are made and how the choice of materials can influence the meaning of artworks, for example, what the artwork is made of, the choice of material to enhance the audience’s understanding of the artist’s intention
Identify and discuss how ideas are expressed in a range of places and cultures.
Comparing artworks made for different reasons, using appropriate visual conventions, and identifying different interpretations

6. Achievement Standards & Content Descriptions
Level 4 Content Description
Achievement Standard
Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times to express ideas in visual artworks.
Students plan and make artworks that are inspired by artworks they experience.
Students discuss how artists use materials, techniques and visual conventions in artworks.
Use materials, techniques, technologies and processes, and explore visual conventions to make artworks.
They use materials, visual conventions, techniques and processes to communicate their ideas.
Create and display artworks, describing how ideas are expressed to an audience.
They discuss and evaluate the art making processes, materials and techniques they use to express their ideas.
Identify and discuss how ideas are expressed in a range of places and cultures.

7. Curriculum mapping
Mapping identifies the extent of curriculum coverage in units of work and clearly links teaching, learning and assessment while working with the curriculum continuum.
Mapping templates support teachers to identify where content descriptions and achievement standards are being explicitly addressed within the school’s teaching and learning program.
Instructions:
Templates
For each Arts discipline
F-6
7-10

10. Indicative Progress Level 2 Progression Level 4
Students make artworks using different materials, techniques and processes to express their ideas, observations and imagination.
Students describe artworks they make and view, including where and why artworks are made and viewed.
Students plan and make artworks that are inspired by artworks they experience.
They use materials, visual conventions, techniques and processes to express their ideas in artworks.
Students discuss how artists express ideas and use materials, techniques and visual conventions in artworks from a range of places, times and cultures.
They discuss and evaluate the art making processes, materials and techniques they use to express their ideas.
Describe the following in in an artwork: materials, subject matter and purpose and theme.
Make an artwork in a selected artform that expresses a theme.
Describe the theme of their own artwork and how it was made.
Discuss the use of materials, techniques and visual conventions in an artwork.
Plan and make an artwork based on a purpose and theme.
Describe the theme of the artwork made with reference to materials, techniques and visual conventions.
Discuss how artists have express ideas in artworks using materials, techniques and visual conventions.
Demonstrate and discuss the planning of an artwork and show the relationship to artworks viewed.
Make an artwork using specific materials, techniques and visual conventions.

11. Claes Oldenburg Floor Cake, 1962 Floor Cone, 1962
Floor Cone, 1962
Claes Oldenburg
Spoonbridge & Cherry, 1988

12. Level 4 Assessment planning
Learning Intentions
(for the development of assessment criteria)
Achievement Standard Level 4 – Visual Arts 1
Discuss the display of 3D artworks in galleries and public spaces and planning a display of student work.
Students discuss how artists express ideas and use materials, techniques and visual conventions in artworks from a range of places, times and cultures.
 Plan and construct three dimensional sculptures using magic clay.
Students plan and make artworks that are inspired by artworks they experience. 2
Explore line, shape, colour and texture in mark making to draw an image of a healthy meal using coloured pencil.
Explore the use of shape and colour in collage work.
Explore three dimensional techniques using magic clay.
Students use materials, visual conventions, techniques and processes to express their ideas in artworks. 3
 Identify the subject matter and use of visual conventions in their own artworks.
Students discuss and evaluate the art making processes, materials and techniques they use to express their ideas.

13. Level 4 Program Planner – Visual Arts
Learning Activity
Content Descriptor
Explore & Express
Students will view artworks and use Art language to identify the subject matter of food in art and the use of materials, techinques and visual conventions used by artists.
Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times to express ideas in visual artworks.
Visual Arts Practices
Students experiment with mark making to create a drawing of a piece of fruit – they will draw on their experiences from an enquiry unit on healthy eating.
Students use their experience to draw their image to depict their favourite healthy meal in a drawing and collage exploring texture, line and colour as well as coloured pencil techniques.
Students develop a sculpture based on their drawing from magic clay experimenting with form and colour.
Use materials, techniques, technologies and processes, and explore visual conventions to make artworks.
Present & Perform
Students will create a display of their drawings and sculptural works based on imagery of exhibition of Oldenburg’s work, public sculptures and museum exhibitions of classical sculptures.
Create and display artworks, describing how ideas are expressed to an audience.
Respond & Interpret
Students will discuss the work of Claues Oldenburg and Pop art discussing the ideas expressed about society and popular culture.  
Identify and discuss how ideas are expressed in artworks from a range of places and cultures.

14. Feedback
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You can also me directly:
Kathryn Hendy-Ekers
Curriculum Manager: Visual Arts
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