Visual Arts Challenge 1 EDN227 2015

• Warm Up

• Take an A4 sheet of paper and cut a 21 by 21 cm square

• Fold your square in diagonal and again in the opposite direction

• Unfold it and you will have the sheet with two diagonal fold  marks

• Fold all corners to the centre

• Turn over and fold all corners to the centre again

• Turn over and insert your fingers in the pockets and  play

 

WARM UP

Observing and constructing:

To take a piece of paper and transform it into a three dimensional object.

What are you learning in this activity?

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Practical:

The use of visual arts materials

 

Materials & Processes:

Investigating possibilities of materials

Experimenting and manipulating  with everyday materials 

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Now to the second part of your Arts Challenge.

 

• Create  a short story (no more than 250 words) using the text provided (framing text)

Page 1

We worked in a big garden near the creek.

Page 2

There were two water tanks and a

windmill next to the garden.

Page 3

We had to work very hard in the hot sun.

Page 4

One day, in the vet season, the people

working in the garden saw a storm,

with a big wind, coming in from the south.

Page 5

There was something

inside that storm!

The old men saw it coming across the creek.

 

What is the learning?

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Representation and Viewpoints:

To build a context through imagined and real events or histories

 

Cultures and Histories:

To build a narrative based on personal or imagined experiences

 

Processes:

Investigating and experimenting how stories  can inform visual representations

 

Conceptual:

To develop an idea into a visual representation

To predict the meaning of text and translate into visual imagery

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