The Arts
The arts have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. The five arts subjects in the Australian Curriculum provide opportunities for students to learn how to create, design, represent, communicate and share their imagined and conceptual ideas, emotions, observations and experiences.
Rich in tradition, the arts play a major role in the development and expression of cultures and communities, locally, nationally and globally. Students communicate ideas in current, traditional and emerging forms and use arts knowledge and understanding to make sense of their world. The Australian Curriculum: The Arts values, respects and explores the significant contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Australia’s arts heritage and contemporary arts practices through their distinctive ways of representing and communicating knowledge, traditions and experience. In The Arts, students learn as artists and audience through the intellectual, emotional and sensory experiences of the arts. They acquire knowledge, skills and understanding specific to The Arts subjects and develop critical understanding that informs decision-making and aesthetic choices. Through The Arts, students learn to express their ideas, thoughts and opinions as they discover and interpret the world. They learn that designing, producing and resolving their work is as essential to learning in the arts as is creating a finished artwork. Students develop their arts knowledge and aesthetic understanding through a growing comprehension of the distinct and related languages, symbols, techniques, processes and skills of the arts subjects. Arts learning provides students with opportunities to engage with creative industries and arts professionals.
The arts entertain, challenge, provoke responses and enrich our knowledge of self, communities, world cultures and histories. The Arts contribute to the development of confident and creative individuals, nurturing and challenging active and informed citizens. Learning in The Arts is based on cognitive, affective and sensory/kinaesthetic response to arts practices as students revisit increasingly complex content, skills and processes with developing confidence and sophistication across their years of learning.
This rationale is extended and complemented by the specific rationale for each arts subject.
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Organic Shape Puzzle
A puzzle focusing on the identification of organic shapes.
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Art Elements Poster
A poster that visually explains the different art elements.
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Form Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'form' as an art element.
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Colour Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'colour' as an art element.
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Storm's a Comin' - Worksheet
A worksheet to use when exploring sound in science or music.
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Musical ZAP Game - Notes with Rhythm Syllables
A fun group game to play when learning notes and rhythms.
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Music Symbols and Vocabulary Match-up
Match up the music symbols with the related word.
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International Dot Day Textured Mandala Template
Celebrate International Dot Day in style with a printable Dot Day Textured Mandala Template.
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Christmas Gift Box (Cube)
A template for creating a First Nations-themed Christmas gift box featuring authentic Aboriginal designs.
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How to Make a Tessellation Artwork Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine procedure article about making a tessellation artwork.
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Visual Arts Elements Texture PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 26 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating texture in Visual Art.
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Visual Arts Elements Shape and Form PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 25 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating shape and form in Visual Art.
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Oblivious Orchestra – Rhythm Challenge
A fun and challenging game where students try to keep a steady beat.
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Talkin' Texture Game
A fun game to play when learning about texture.
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Patterning Guide Template - Year 3 and Year 4
A template to use when learning about line in visual art.
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Famous Artists Card Game
A set of 54 famous artist cards to be used for a variety of card games.
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Art Attack! Line – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Texture Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'texture' as an art element.
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Mood - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'mood'.
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Focus - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of focus.
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Music Symbols PowerPoint
A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation covering 15 common musical symbols.
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Wingaru Easter Egg Basket - Footsteps Design
An Aboriginal egg basket-making activity featuring authentic First Nations designs by Dunghutti artist, Cynthia O’Brien-Younie.
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Marvellous Monochrome Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of monochromatic colour.
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What's in a Colour? Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to explore interpretation of colour in visual art.
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Visual Arts Elements Space PowerPoint - Upper Years
A 28 slide teaching presentation to use when investigating space in Visual Art.
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Artistic Movements Teaching Presentation – Cubism
A 44-slide editable PowerPoint template exploring the famous artists and signature artistic techniques of the Cubist movement.
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Art Elements PowerPoint Presentation
A PowerPoint including eight slides explaining the different visual art elements.
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Make a Caterpillar – Dot Art Activity
An art activity procedure for how to make a caterpillar.
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Cylinder Sculpture Activity
A fun art activity to experiment with the use of warm or cool colours.
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Line Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'line' as an art element.
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Shape Art Element Poster
A poster that explains the term 'shape' as an art element.
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Atmosphere - Elements of Drama Poster
A poster that explains the dramatic element of 'atmosphere'.