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Help! Need three art lesson plan ideas.

  • 13-03-2011 3:10pm
    #1
    pavilion29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭


    Hi there,

    Im a student primary school teacher on teaching practice.
    I need help with ideas for art in 6th class (mixed)
    My theme is media (very broad, tv film newspaper, internet)
    In 3 lessons I was hoping it incorporate:

    drawing - using shadow, shading
    clay - making what we drew - looking at texture, scale, detail
    painting - paint the clay object?

    another idea was reprdoucing characters from either a cartoon film or tv show - draw, clay, palsticine, print, paint?
    something that i could get 3 lessons out of and that the class is building on what they did the previous week.
    Struggling here. any advice would be welcome.


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  • #2
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    you'll get a better response on educationposts.ie


  • #3
    gwjones42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭gwjones42


    Hi Op,

    I'm looking at what you're suggesting there and while your ideas sound really fun, I think you're taking on too much to try three different strands in only three lessons. You'll have very little time to build up the skills you're supposed to be teaching as there'll be so much pressure on you to move on to the next strand and come up with finished products. Also, the amount of resources you'll need will be crazy.

    Why not just focus on one strand, let's say "Clay" and bring in one other to support your work in it...eg "drawing". Your theme is "media" which you rightly say is very broad, but before you even go near the theme, you'd need to allow plenty of time for experimenting with the clay....ie... its texture, moulding techniques and practising......not forgetting looking and responding to finished pieces/ the work of famous artists. I'd give this one whole lesson....if not TWO....but as you have limited time, one might be the most you can allow it.

    A tentative outlay of the three lessons as I would do them is......

    Lesson 1: Objectives.....familiarise students with clay and teach techniques that will be needed in later lessons...(coiling, moulding, decorating etc...). Students practise these skills and create their own practise pieces. Finish lesson with Looking and responding session specific to your theme and discuss how the skills learned in the lesson could be applied to the theme.

    Lesson 2: Objectives: Re-enforce content from lesson 1 + children design their piece through drawing....

    Lesson 3: Put all skills learned into practise to create clay art.


    I hope that helps....just don't over-complicate your lessons by pumping them full of different content.....you'll end up doing more, but teaching less!


  • #4
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    you'll get a better response on educationposts.ie

    This is unfortunately true. I for one am happy our forum doesn't get flooded with those threads like their's does.


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