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Foundation to Year 2 Visual Arts

In Foundation to Year 2, learning in The Arts builds on the Early Years Learning Framework. Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with …

Foundation to Year 2 | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Example of knowledge and skills Visual Arts

In this band students are introduced to the ways that ideas and intentions are communicated in and through visual arts. They develop knowledge, understanding and skills through visual arts practices focusing on: Representation Subject matter personal …

Example of knowledge and skills | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Learning Area Achievement Standard Visual Arts Foundation to Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students describe artworks they make and those to which they respond. They consider where and why people make artworks. Students use the elements and processes of arts subjects to make and share artworks that represent ideas. …

Achievement Standard Visual Arts Foundation to Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students describe artworks they make and view and where and why artworks are made and presented. Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different techniques and pro …

Structure Visual Arts

Learning in Visual Arts Learning in Visual Arts involves students making and responding to artworks, drawing on the world as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of visual arts, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use materials …

Structure | Visual Arts | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Learning Area Achievement Standard Visual Arts Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain how ideas are communicated in artworks they make and to which they respond. They describe characteristics of artworks from different social, historical and cultural contexts that influence their art making. Students …

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM106

Considering viewpoints – forms and elements: For example – What colours were used? What is it made of? How is the colour used, and why is it used in this way?

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM107

using techniques to demonstrate various compositional effects, for example, overlapping or crosshatching

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM108

Considering viewpoints – meanings and interpretations: For example – What did this artwork or design make you think about and why? What figures/shapes can you see in the artwork? How has the artist treated the figures/shapes to convey their idea or m …

Elaboration (2) ACAVAR109

identifying how design elements, such as line, shape, colour or texture, are used in their artworks and in the artwork of others

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM110

exploring ways to represent their ideas using visual conventions from different historical, social or cultural contexts

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM111

experimenting with alternative styles of representation from different cultures and times in their artworks, for example, realistic, symbolic, narrative, abstract

Elaboration (2) ACAVAM112

exploring different ways of presenting artworks in different locations, for example, in folios, digitally, in a public space in the school

Elaboration (2) ACAVAR113

comparing artworks made for different reasons, using appropriate visual conventions, and identifying possible differences in interpretations, for example, comparing contemporary representations of locations in their community with representations by Aboriginal …

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