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      Listed under:  Arts  >  Visual arts  >  Symbols
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      'The Rajah quilt' 1841

      • TLF-IDM020062

      The Rajah quilt was made by female convicts on route from England to the colony of Tasmania in 1841. It consists of 2815 pieces of fabric and was presented to the Governor's wife upon arrival as a testament to the women's industry. The women learned these skills on the long journey to Australia on board their convict ship ...

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      Create: What is abstract art?

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      Traditionally artworks were representations of real life objects and environments. When you looked at these works you could usually identify what the artist was representing. How is abstract art different from this? Watch this video to see an example of an abstract painting, then have a go at creating one yourself!

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      Stamping in visual arts

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      In visual art, what do you think stamping refers to? Learn how to create artworks using this technique. See if you can find something other than a leaf as the stamp to experiment with.

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      TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 5, Year 6 The Arts

      • TLF-IDM025093

      This unit uses dance, drama, visual arts and music to communicate student-created safety messages. Using a community-based scenario, students devise an improvised drama and choreograph a dance to highlight the importance of safe track-side behaviours; they use artworks to explore the effect of colour before creating a cartoon-based ...

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      Making waves with Hokusai

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      Students create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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      Be a friend

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      Explore dance, drama and visual arts through different elements of friendship.

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      Metamorphosis

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      Using drama and visual arts students explore a world of play and imagination where nothing is as ordinary as it seems.

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      Inspire me …

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      Using stimulus material to inspire art and music. Learn about plastics in the ocean and what oceanographers have learnt through seascape artwork. Create an artwork based on a seascape and plastic waste, Explore graphic notation and create a city soundscape with an artwork as a stimulus.

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      When is a stick not a stick?

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      Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems. Students respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus to explore elements of drama and create characters. Students will develop their expressive skills through movement and voice. Students also create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.

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      The dot

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      Students will listen to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds and create artworks of real and imagined things inspired by the story. They also sing a song with simple actions.

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      Shake the papaya tree

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      Find out more about papaya trees and then learn to draw one! Learn a song about climbing a tree and some movements to perform as you sing the song. Explore how to find the beat in the music.

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      Going on an adventure

      • TLF-IDM025955

      Explore drama and visual arts activities using an adventure story as a stimulus.

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      Autumn leaves

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      Explore dance, art and music through a song about Autumn leaves. Make some art works, dance like a leaf and learn to play the song on a keyboard instrument.

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      Fun with flowers

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      Students discover the creative and scientific art of botanical illustration and respond to the drawing through poetry and music.

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      Chicken challenge

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      Learn to use two-dimensional shapes to create a chicken artwork.

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      Brushing up on animals

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      Students discover techniques for drawing animals and painting an artwork.

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      For the Juniors: Candles, cards and carols: Christmas in 1983

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      How do people celebrate Christmas now? This clip shows some of the ways Christmas was celebrated in 1983. People sent cards, gave presents and sang carols. Have things changed?

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      SketchBook

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      This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating drawings and sketches using virtual professional-grade tools and brushes, and imaging techniques. It features a full-screen workspace and an 11-icon menu including pan and zoom navigation, a brush editor, colour wheels with HSB and RBG colour space, an eye-dropper ...

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      Syllabus bites: Visual literacy

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      A resource with information, study guides and resources on visual literacy to support the English K-10 Australian Curriculum in English. It provides a series of activities, guidelines and tasks about visual texts from a variety of sources. Contains writing scaffolds, templates and proformas for responding and composing ...

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      Sites2See: How to communicate with aliens

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      Through the ages humans have used symbols and symbol systems to communicate with one another. Students are challenged to compile a message that could be understood by anyone in the world and possibly beyond.

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