Lesson Focus Learning Area Year Level Implementation
date: 17/4/18
Create and display artworks The Arts - Visual Arts Year 1
to communicate ideas to an Duration
(Foundation – 2)
audience (ACAVAM108)
45 mins – 1 hour
Theme – ‘My place, My
Friends’
Prior knowledge of learners (What do they already know about this concept/topic/skill?)
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 and contribution to the world. (ACARA, 2018)
Students have a basic knowledge of how to use materials and utensils associated with the visual arts,
particularly how to manipulate scissors.
Safe Practices – Students are to be supervised closely with scissors. Students are to be provided with
various scissor options, (left-handed, joined grip, smaller or larger size).
Links to Curriculum (identify relevant Strands and Content Descriptors – these may be provided by the
class teacher)
Content Descriptions
Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108)
Elaborations
sharing ideas with their classmates about the representational choices they made in their
artwork
talking about ideas such as themes when displaying artworks, for example, at the local gallery
or in their classroom
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 meaning
making a decision about how to display their artwork to share their ideas
(ACARA, 2018)
*Area of focus is highlighted
General Capabilities
Personal and social capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability
Critical and Creative thinking Personal and Social Capability
Cross Curricular Priorities
Sustainability
Learning objectives Learning objectives
At the end of this lesson the learners will know: At the end of this lesson the learners will be able
to:
Be able to produce a visual artwork that
communicate their ideas to an audience. Create a visual representation of an environment
that is unique to them by using art mediums and
techniques.
Evidence of learning (checks for learning/assessment)
Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using
different techniques and processes. (ACARA, 2018)
Completed visual art piece that portrays and idea.
Students can verbally discuss their work with their peers.
Resources
Please see attached
Lesson Overview
In this lesson students will be creating a Matisse inspired ‘Cut Out’ artwork of the playground or
feature this can include students friends.
1. Lesson Introduction (introduce the topic and engage the learners)
Time What will you do What the learners will do
10-15 *Teacher organise resources onto a table
minutes before session.
View
Teacher to play short YouTube clip to get
students attention. (Clip 1) Students will be at their desks or art benches
Discuss
Present students with the lesson focus
and the concepts that will be learnt in Students discuss what their favourite features
this session. Teacher to present students of the playground are.
with the focus artwork by Henri Matisse.
(Resource A) * Any questions? *Look for understanding?
Teacher to jot down on the board the
playground features.
Talk about Learning objectives – What
they will know and what they will be able
to do.
View Students to watch clip.
Teacher to play a short YouTube clip to Students discuss when they have used scissors
further explain the process the students to create artwork like Matisse (e.g. collage)
will complete. (Clip 2)
Discuss
How Matisse used his scissors like a paint Students to collect art materials after teacher’s
brush to create his artwork. instructions.
Teacher discuss and model techniques to
be used.
Teacher to play a short YouTube clip
about Matisse (Clip 3) Students to view clip
2. Lesson Body (Teaching the content through specific strategies)
Time What will you do What the learners will do
25-30 Supervise students to collect and Once students have received their art materials
minutes distribute art materials. they are to commence their works of art.
Reinforce safe practices and method with (Making)
the students.
*If students finish early, encourage them to add
Support students to participate in the more details to their piece or create an
activity. additional artwork that portrays another aspect
of the playground.
Support students who need additional
support.
* While the students are creating their *Once students have completed their artwork,
artwork teacher will play YouTube clip of they are to return any art materials to the art
Matisse’s artwork in the background on table and bring their pictures to the carpet area.
silent (Clip 4)
3. Lesson Conclusion (concluding activities, review, check for learning)
Time What will you do What the learners will do
10 – 15 Teacher to invite students to discuss Students are to discuss their artwork and give
minutes their artwork and explain what the feedback to the other students about what they
focus of their artwork was and why they liked in their peers work.
decided to create that part of the
*Feedback from students about this activity;
playground.
what they liked? What they didn’t like? What
Teacher to play an optional YouTube they found challenging? (Responding)
Story based on the work of Matisse
(Clip 5, 6 or 7)) *While students are Students are to place their artwork in a pile for
watching the clip, teacher is to hang art the teacher to display and then find a
on the classroom art wall. comfortable spot to watch a short story.
Lesson Evaluation
Were the learning objectives achieved? Why/Why not?
What worked well?
What could be improved for next time?
Resources
The Parakeet and the Mermaid. 1952
THE CUT-OUTS
During the last decade of his life Henri Matisse deployed two simple materials—white paper and
gouache—to create works of wide-ranging colour and complexity. An unorthodox implement, a pair
of scissors, was the tool Matisse used to transform paint and paper into a world of plants, animals,
figures, and shapes.
Materials and
Equipment
Recycled scrap paper
Magazine or catalogues
Scissors
Glue sticks
Recycled paper box
Example of finished product
YouTube Clips
1. Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
https://youtu.be/si_GBCJGIP4
2. henri matisse for children
https://youtu.be/Jp-aVtfMttg
3. Footage of Henri Matisse making a paper cut out
https://youtu.be/GN0okOq8Hyc
4. Henri Matisse: A collection of 812 works (HD) – (slide show)
https://youtu.be/D1wume443zY
Optional YouTube stories
5. Matisse the King of Color (Children’s book)
https://youtu.be/Uh09gdPq2M8
6. Henri's Scissors (Children’s book)
https://youtu.be/lvgOlhFDbq0
7. Drawing with Scissors (Matisse) (Children’s book)
https://youtu.be/Mghdpsysi3c
Additional Resources
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
(Student resources video for middle primary students)
https://youtu.be/rLgSd8ka0Gs
Matisse: The Cut Outs
https://youtu.be/APB5AXUF-hQ
Henri Matisse in 60 seconds
https://youtu.be/kRkdY8VQx1c
Lesson plans
Matisse Prints du Soleil - Lesson Plan
https://youtu.be/dDniIEVUJoA
3. Art Lessons For Kids: Matisse Paper Cutouts
https://youtu.be/Ly7BQb44w3s
References
ACARA (2018). Australiancurriculum.edu.au. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/the-arts/visual-
arts/?year=12755&capability=ignore&capability=Literacy&capability=Numeracy&capability=Informa
tion+and+Communication+Technology+%28ICT%29+Capability&capability=Critical+and+Creative+Thi
nking&capability=Personal+and+Social+Capability&capability=Ethical+Understanding&capability=Int
ercultural+Understanding&priority=ignore&priority=Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander+Histories
+and+Cultures&priority=Asia+and+Australia%E2%80%99s+Engagement+with+Asia&priority=Sustain
ability&elaborations=true&elaborations=false&scotterms=false&isFirstPageLoad=false
Art Lessons For Kids: Matisse Paper Cutouts. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly7BQb44w3s
Drawing with Scissors (Matisse). (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mghdpsysi3c
Footage of Henri Matisse making a paper cut out. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0okOq8Hyc
Henri Matisse: A collection of 812 works (HD). (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wume443zY
Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 13 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si_GBCJGIP4&feature=youtu.be
Henri matisse for children. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 13 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp-aVtfMttg
Henri Matisse in 60 seconds. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 13 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRkdY8VQx1c
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. (2018). Moma.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/matisse/the-cut-outs.html
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLgSd8ka0Gs
Henri's Scissors. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgOlhFDbq0
Matisse: The Cut Outs. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APB5AXUF-hQ
Matisse Prints du Soleil - Lesson Plan. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDniIEVUJoA
Matisse the King of Color. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh09gdPq2M8
