A Jim Dine inspired lesson, looking at creating a patterned love heart using the sgraffito technique. The work is planned to last for four lessons, looking at Dine’s artwork, style and the sgraffito technique. I have planned this with for KS3 (year 8), with the intention of developing skills and presentation skills. The lessons include do now tasks, starters, main task with graded examples, homework tasks, extension task and plenaries. Homework tasks are an extension of classwork and are intended to help students develop a further understanding of the Jim Dine’s work and his artistic style.

This task is planned as the starting point for a GCSE mixed media project, with a steampunk theme running through it. The piece of work focuses on the process of mixed media, what it looks like, examples of mixed media work and allows students to explore the idea of mixed media work before developing the project further. The PowerPoint includes, starter tasks, an example of each task, an assessment criteria and a breakdown of how it was created and homework task. The resources to complete the page have also been included.

Vera De-Gernier is a fabulous collage artist, who uses celebrity images as a main focus of her work. These lessons concentrate on the artist and the style and techniques used in her work. Her work could be used as part of a collage, mixed media or modern Pop Art project. I have planned the work as part of a KS4 mixed media project. The powerpoint includes starter tasks, information about the artist, examples of work/tasks, how to create them, an assessment criteria and homework task. The resources needed to create the work have also been included.

A mini peer assessment task, to be completed in pairs. The worksheet needs cutting into slips, give one slip to each student. They need to assess the work of the student next to them, by highlighting the appropriate WWW and EBI. The assessor writes their name on the sheet and hands it back to their partner. Based on this feedback, students can then set themselves a target for next lesson. Works well as a plenary task, aimed more at KS3 students or lower ability KS4.