Exploring Visual Arts

Easy to use and easy follow-up projects

Exploring visual arts is a series of full-colour books designed to provide teachers with a range of art lessons. The series of books offers effective, easy-to-use, practical teaching strategies. The activities provide skills, techniques and ideas to satisfy curriculum requirements through classroom-tested art projects based on different topics suited to each age level.

Comprehensive teachers notes, which include step-by-step instructions, a list of materials and evaluation points in all four visual arts strands, are supported by full-colour photographs of each completed art project.

Features:

• full-colour photographs of each completed art project
• comprehensive teachers notes
• the number of lessons (duration) to complete each art project
• step-by-step instructions
• materials required to complete each project
• evaluation points in all four strands of visual arts
• additional teacher resources including sample art assessment checklist, blank art assessment checklist, student self-assessment sheet, ‘Looking at art’ sheet (for use when viewing and discussing artworks), ‘Elements of art’ labels, reward ribbons, sample activity cards and templates
• time saving tips
• an example of each piece of art is also provided on CD as a visual image for display to the class on completion of the unit, via computer projection or interactive whiteboard

Products:

• Ages 5-7 - RIC-6582 - ISBN 9781741268454
• Ages 8-10 - RIC-6583 - ISBN 9781741268461
• Ages 11+ - RIC-6584 - ISBN 9781741268478