Scope and Sequence: Year 8 Visual Arts 2014

Unit / Unit 1 / Unit 2 / Unit 3 / Unit 4
Time/ Duration / Term 1 / Term 2 / Term 3 / Term 4
Name of Unit / Self & Surface / Tribal / The Party / Urban Environment
Concepts / Frames: Structural
Agencies: Artwork/Artist / Frames: Cultural
Agencies: The World/Audience / Frames: Subjective
Agencies: Artist/Artwork / Frames: Post Modern
Agencies: Audience/ World
In class activities and Homework / Exposition & activities– key content areas
Structural Frame activity
Drawing- observation, objects
Drawing - Proportion, people
Critical/historical study, - Picasso
Surface exploration, materials
Historical study - Cubism
Mixed Media Painting
Homework – activity sheets elements & principles of design / Cultural Frame activity
Design processes referencing elements & principles – line, shape, repetition, balance
Cultural designs & their symbolism
Tattoo & body art
Printmaking techniques
Block printing and stamps – demonstration & practice
Printed wall hanging
Homework – activity sheets elements & principles / Subjective Frame activity
Drawing of party food and decorations
Discussion of popular themes
Historical Study - analysis – Pop Art
Pop Art techniques, material practice
Exploration of shape and form, overlapping, textural surface, stamping, marbling, stencilling
Styles of text, graffiti
Critical Study – Frank Stella, analysis
Relief techniques
Critical/ Historical Study – Joan Miro works
Homework – activity sheets, natural and manmade shapes, colour, texture / Post Modern Frame activity
Drawing – observation, imagined, referenced
Material practice
Perspective drawings of environment
Critical Study - Analysis -Mambo
Suburban symbols & icons
Comprehension & drawing – Arkley
Multi- media presentation - & discussion – Gaudi
Material practice – Hundterwasser- inspired urban design
Painting/ drawing
Homework – google map search of targeted structures locally & globally
Assessments / Research – Analysis -Archibald Prize – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Mixed Media Artwork – 50% / Research – Tribal culture/Scaffolded Task – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Wall Hanging – 50% / Research- Multimedia Presentation, Claes Oldenburg – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Relief Sculpture – 50% / Research –Timeline Architectural Forms, Design Process – 30%
Visual Arts Diary -20%
Painting/Drawing – 50%
Learning Areas / Conceptual Framework, The Frames, and Practice (Key Content)
Structural Frame
Elements of Design
Drawing techniques
Mixed Media practice & form
Material exploration
Critical/historical study – Archibald Prize / The Cultural Frame
Defining Signs, Symbols
Critical/Historical Study design in:
Aboriginal, Maori, Pacific Islands, Africa
Design process & experimentation
Printmaking techniques / Subjective Frame
Popular Culture
Pop Art
Defining styles in painting
Critical/ Historical Study – Frank Stella
Drawing & Painting Techniques
Pop Art techniques
Use of text in art
Critical/ Historical Study – Joan Miro
Defining Sculptural techniques, forms & terms
Relief Sculpture / Post Modern Frame
Architectural forms & structures
Perspective – 2d, 3d, aerial
Painting techniques
Critical Study – Mambo Graphics
Historical Study – Howard Arkley & Antonio Gaudi
Drawing & photographic representations local environment
Critical Study – Hundterwasser techniques & practice
Painting/drawing urban environment
Reporting Stems /
  • Interprets subject matter from different viewpoints.
  • Understands the ways artworks are made within cultural and historical contexts.
  • Structures artworks using a range of skills, techniques and processes.
  • Uses materials and techniques to give form to their ideas.
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  • Utilises aspects of the world as a source of concepts and subject matter.
  • Explores different meanings and functions in art criticism and history.
  • Uses a range of techniques to explore different artmaking conventions.
  • Uses the frames to develop artmaking ideas and concepts