This worksheet has been designed for gallery visits. There is a space in the middle to make a sketch. It asks the following questions:
Your Name
Title of Artwork
Name of Artist
What have you looked at?
What media has the artist used?
what colours has the artist used?
What kind of marks or techniques has the artist used?
What kind of shapes and forms can you see?
How does the artwork relate to other artworks in the exhibition?
How does the artwork make you feel?
The same worksheet is uploaded as a .jpg and pdf. I'm not sure why you can only see the top part of the pdf. When you download it, it is all there - I have checked!!
Keywords: gallery visit, gallery education, analysing art, visiting galleries, gallery activities.
GCSE Art Gallery Visit Resource for teachers to share with their students.
Created for my Y10 GCSE Art students ahead of our gallery visit to find artist inspiration for their Y11 Personal Portfolios.
The first page gives space for details on arrival/departure times and student/teacher groups.
The second page is a site-specific map of the Tate Modern.
The third page details the Personal Portfolio task to be completed whilst visiting the gallery.
The fourth page, includes guidance and questions to help students consider the art on display and how it may influence, impact their final coursework project.
Editable PDF to help students make the most of their gallery visit.
This version is tailored to the Tate Modern, London but could be adapted to another venue.
Are you taking students to an art gallery? If so, this resource might help. It explains to students how to behave in a gallery setting and how to really get the best from the experience. A series of tasks ensure that students fully engage with the artwork and collect valuable information through note taking, photography and sketching that can then be expanded upon once back in the classroom. Ideal for Key Stage 3 and GCSE Art students. The resource is print friendly and can be given to students as a work book to use in the gallery. 17 pages.
This presentation contains 20 slides of resources for Educational Visits for GCSE and A-Level Art and Photography students. I have included help sheets, task sheets and examples for lessons / visits -that I have used to aid my teaching over the last 10 years.
This is a presentation of 34 slides covering 8 lessons. It’s a stylish lesson by lesson guide to creating Manga-style illustration. Assessment criteria are also included in the presentation. The project was originally designed for yr8 student who visited Manga exhibition at British museum. However, it can be taught without the museum visit and can be taught to year 9 and10 . Students have found it very engaging and stimulating.
Planning an art gallery visit with your students? This resource might just help. A student friendly guide to getting the most out of a gallery visit. A 17 page workbook that guides students through how to behave in a gallery, how to explore and analyse the artwork, how to take notes and sketch details and how to interpret the artwork in order to develop their own art once back in the classroom. Easy to print and ideal for all exam level art students.
Aimed at KS3, great for a series of 3-4 lessons or for cover.
Includes:
2 worksheets on designing beetles with patterns and collage
1 worksheet on comparing two artists who work with beetles as a theme
1 worksheet getting students to practice their drawing skills by drawing one half of a beetle from a photograph.
Sweet Dreams – Food in Art Project | KS3 Art & Design
This creative KS3 project explores the theme of food in art, taking inspiration from artists such as Claus Oldenburg, Sarah Graham, Peter Anton, and Walter Gropius. Suitable for Year 7, 8, or 9, the unit encourages pupils to experiment with different media and techniques through a series of mini projects, leading to a final 3D outcome.
What’s Included
Full editable scheme of work for a 16-week unit
Lesson-by-lesson PowerPoint with structured guidance (54 Slides)
Over four studio projects exploring painting, collage, sculpture, and 3D design
Artist study tasks focusing on Oldenburg, Graham, Anton, and Gropius
Pop Art exploration and collage project (including a “make a burger” activity)
Assessment rubric aligned with lesson objectives and outcomes
Learning Aims & Outcomes
Explore how food is represented in art across different movements and styles
Develop technical skills in painting, collage, and 3D construction
Build confidence in artist research and critical analysis
Experiment with Pop Art, contemporary realism, and sculptural design
Create a final 3D outcome informed by multiple artists and processes
Why This Resource?
Fully editable, flexible, and classroom tested
Encourages creativity through a variety of mini-projects and studio outcomes
Engages pupils with both traditional and contemporary art practices
Provides a complete 16-week structure with clear assessment criteria
This engaging unit gives students the opportunity to experiment with diverse approaches to food in art, developing their skills and creativity while producing a final 3D outcome inspired by leading artists.
A teaching resource for art/photography teachers and facilitators that can be adapted from school up to university level, that has been developed from my twenty years of knowledge and experience as a photographer and visual arts teacher.
Going to look at artwork is a key part of a creative experience and project, and students may not know how to record this so it is well linked to their own projects, ideas and thinking.
This is a good worksheet/guide to use on a visit and for students going on independent trips. Do let them have access to this resource in plenty of time before you/they go and go through it with them to answer questions they may have. Add/change as you need.
This is drawn from my years of experience as a practicing photographer and visual arts/photography teacher and has been freshly updated in August 2025.
Do not resell or reuse (outside of a teaching scenario) any of the content of this lesson or resource.
A tried and tested project on “Identity” for GCSE Art. Taught to year 11 for their coursework unit.
In this bundle you will find resources for both student and teacher including:
A Coursework tracker (split over two documents) for students outlining and explaining all works/homeworks for the unit.
A tracker for the teacher (split over two documents) allowing the teacher to follow and monitor student progress.
A powerpoint introducing the topic of “Identity” and explaining the Assessment Objectives.
A summer task worksheet introducing the topic of “Identity”, set prior to starting the unit itself (year 10 summer holiday).
A mock exam booklet for students on the day of their mock exam, outlining tasks and expectations with visual exemplars.
Revision sheets of artists to support.
Tried and tested on KS3.
88 lesson starters or ‘do now’ tasks to get the class warmed up for the lesson.
Features a range of topics and artists, aswell as key words/literacy links.
Andy Warhol and Pop Art themed worksheets.
COST EFFECTIVE - Worksheets can be printed in black and white.
Features 4 different design and drawing tasks across 3 worksheets.
Suitable for homeworks, lesson content or cover lessons.
We will be handing out GCSE Art Component 2 2026 question papers in January. This is a FULLY EDITABLE 12 page guide for students to help them develop artwork for GCSE Art Component 2. It is suitable for all exam boards including AQA and Edexcel. As it is fully editable it is suitable for use with ALL TITLES; Art and Design, Fine Art, Textiles, Graphics, Photography, 3D Design. This fully illustrated guide leads the student through the stages of development of a thorough set of work that meets the requirements of the assessment objectives. Drawing in all its forms is strongly encouraged, as drawing underpins all other work, no matter which Title is being followed.
This resource is used in an outstanding Art Department. No exam questions are reproduced in this resource. The guidance given provides a structure that works irrespective of the starting point. Potentially, this could be used as an outline for the development of Component 1 too!!
Also includes an editable planning sheet to help students organise themselves right from the start.
This resource is provided as a Word doc so that you can edit it to meet your needs. For instance, tailor it to your exam board and deadline dates, or add your own images and artist references. We hope it helps!
**P.S, be sure to unzip (extract) the file once downloaded. To do this, simply right click on the file and choose “Extract all” from the menu. You will then have a fully editable resource. **The zipped download system is set by TES, by the way, authors have no choice in the matter. It is to speed up the download process.
Art of the American Soldier: Stories from the Soldiers encourages students to deepen their appreciation of war art through watching and
listening to veteran war experiences. Students are then asked to point out details in the artwork
they had not previously noticed before listening to the veteran war stories. Art of the American Soldier: Comparing and Contrasting Photography and Painting in War Art encourages students to use photography to analyze artwork for details regarding the historical context of 20th and 21st century wars and conflicts.
Social story to help children to know what to expect at a visit to the dentist to ease any anxiety prior to their visit.
The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories can be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event but social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation.
These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
For Art department heads and Art department leads: an example of a visual curriculum road map/pathway for an Art and Design department. OFSTED love it as a visual resource for staff, students and visitors to quickly see the path of the curriculum and how it fits together and builds from one project to another. Use it as a template but make it your own including your own department’s schemes of learning. At my own department we have printed a copy to A1 for each classroom and for the corridor in the department.** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**
Track your students progress for each assessment object, input marks for each AO and see how many marks they need to pick up to move grades.
Show it to the students to enable them to see what they need to improve, it is a powerful and motivating way to keep students engaged!
There are 2 spreadsheets, one for marks and the other: a colour coded tracker. I put this up at the beginning of each GCSE lesson to help the students see what they need to do. It works!
Please note that as the grade boundaries change you may need to alter some of the formulas.
This is an entire unit of lessons teaching KS3 students about Gargoyles in Art. pitched for KS3.
The unit includes a term’s worth of lessons, starter tasks, literacy tasks for art key words and some worksheets.
Students look at famous examples of Gargoyles across Europe, including Paris and London.
They will have many opportunites to practice not only shape and structure but build on their use shading and mark-making skills. This project was put together in mind of the covid19 bubbles for September 2020, so the project works with limited media (pen and pencil).
Continuing Barnaby´s trip. This time he will visit China. I have used this resource with my Year 1 class. They really enjoyed it. I hope it is useful for you!
A step by step guide for students, leading them through the development of a GCSE Art sketchbook. This resource focusses on covering the Assessment Objectives and helps students see how their work can evolve. An invaluable resource for all students, but in particular, lower achieving candidates. This is a sample of the resource. The full resource can be purchased in the TES “premium” section by clicking here
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