Arts, Materials and Technologies: Indigenous Culture: Year 6 Stories: What is Your Story? – Year 6

Arts, Material and Technologies 

Year 6 – What’s Your Story

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.

Complete This Unit 

Lesson 1: Elements of Visual Art

Lesson 2: Influences on Art

Lesson 3: Traditional Indigenous Body Art

Lesson 4: Contemporary Body Art

Lesson 5: Body Adornment

Lesson 6: Digital Art

Lesson 7: Personal Symbols

Lesson 8: Responding to Art

Lesson 9: Experimenting with different art forms

Lesson 10: Exhibiting Art

Lesson 11: Local Artist Study

Lesson 12: Creating an Artist Statement

Lesson 13: Creating a major work

Lesson 14: Major work ‘Project Me’

Lesson 15: Major work ‘Project Me’

Lesson 16: Writing an artist statement for major work

Lesson 17: Exhibition Preparation

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Course Includes

  • 4 Lessons
  • 22 Topics