Arts, Materials and Technologies: Indigenous Culture – Stories: Understanding Art – Year 4

Teaching resources

Lessons
Teaching Guide
Student Workbook

Overview

Students investigate the technological change of products over time. They identify and describe the purpose, features and uses of traditional and modern technologies. Through investigation, students recognise different properties of materials and how they are joined. They identify that forces create movement in products. Following the design process, students meet the identified needs of users through the creation and modification of products.

Learning objectives

In Lessons 1 to 17, students learn to:

1. identify the five steps to designing a new product
2. evaluate a product design
3. identify early indigenous technologies
4. describe how early indigenous technologies met needs
5. recognise modified products
6. identify whether products are new or modified
7. design or modify a product to meet a need
8. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
9. make and test design solutions
10. reflect on and communicate the results of product tests
11. investigate materials and joins
12. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
13. model and test design solutions
14. communicate the results of design solution tests
15. identify that forces create movement in products
16. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
17. model and test design solutions
18. communicate the results of design solution tests.

Assessment

• Knowledge and Understanding Test (Lesson 18)
• Assessment Task: Art Exhibition (Lessons 15–17)

Complete This Unit 

Lesson 1: What is Art?

Lesson 2: What is an Exhibition?

Lesson 3: Design Elements of Art

Lesson 4: Techniques in Art

Lesson 5: Comparing Artworks

Lesson 6: Fibre Craft

Lesson 7: Clay

Lesson 8: Indigenous Art

Lesson 9: Sculpture

Lesson 10: Culture in Art

Lesson 11: Print Making

Lesson 12: Stories Through Art

Lesson 13: Collaboration to Make an Artwork

Lesson 14: Planning an Exhibition

Lesson 15: Invitations to Our Exhibition

Lesson 16: Invitations to Our Exhibition

Lesson 17: Art Exhibition