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Beginning. End. Art GCSE Edexcel Exam 2017
Why not kick off the 2017 GCSE exam with this fun and useful ppt?
Enough resources here to keep your students interested and productive for several lessons...
Featuring:
-Instructions & Examples for 3 tasks to ensure your students are engaging with the theme and to support them in completing work to a high GCSE standard:
-Mindmap Challenge task
-Creative Collage
-Artist Research page
I used this today with my year 11 group and they loved it! Mindmaps are coming along nicely.
M.C. Escher Project. Beginning. End. Art GCSE 2017
Use this engaging resource with your class to explore the art M.C. Escher and create their own 'Escheresque' piece.
-3 different Escher project starting points offering 3 levels of challenge
-Assessment Criteria for these projects.
-Contextual introduction & information about M.C. Escher
-Questions to get your students to think more deeply about his art
-Fun Escher clips to enjoy
Edward Hopper. Artist Research. Beginning. End. Art. GCSE. 2017.
Everything you need in one ppt!
-Use this resource to get ALL of your year 11 students effectively researching and writing high quality Artist Study pages to earn top marks for AO1.
-Hopper is featured in the new Beginnings/End exam Edexcel paper, why not use this ppt to scaffold for your students how to do a proper artist study.
Featuring:
-A foolproof system with step by step instructions on how to analyse Hoppers' work using SEMI
-Printable differentiated worksheets for students to answer questions and fill in the blanks
-A comprehensive and engaging introduction to Hopper's work
-Examples of high quality GCSE research pages
-Success Criteria & Edexcel mark scheme
-Tips and tricks for top attainers
-Video clips to an analysis of Hopper's work.
Insect Sculpture Art Design Technology Project
Includes:
Everything you need to get your students to design and create their own wire insect sculpture.
-3 powerpoints to take students through the stages of the unit: Draw/Design/Plan/Execute/Evaluate
-Clear instructions & lesson objectives
-Assessment Criteria
-Key Vocabulary
-Homework
Eat. Sleep. Revise. Repeat.
Use this resource to show your students how to revise effectively.
Art Resources KS3 Ready for September
Snag this now and you'll have all the KS3 art resources you'll need to be ready to hit the ground runnin' in September.
Includes:
-New KS3 Curriculum Levels
-Art Activity Assessment Tracker
-Observational baseline tests
-Creativity tests
-Curriculum Mapping
-Behaviour Lesson
-Cover lessons
+ loads more
Loads of goodies here & you're saving 46% by buying the bundle.
Mendhi Cover Lesson Art & Design
4 worksheets to use to introduce Mehndi designs.
Great to use as a cover lesson.
Art Activity Checklists & Assessment Tracker Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13
Use these editable Art Activity Feedback Trackers to organise the learning for each of your year groups over the course of the year. These trackers can be stuck into the inside cover of the sketchbook and allow for you to communicate regularly with students about their progress as well as enabling students to take ownership and be more independent in their art-making.
Includes:
-Instructions for Artist Activity
-Self/Peer & Teacher Main Assessment Checkpoints
-Space for the teacher to write a quick target for improvement
-Formative & Summative Assessment
Art Cover Resources: Kandinsky Google Design & Harring Creativity Test
Need a quick, engaging cover lesson for your KS3 art students?
2 for 1 on cover lessons:
-Design a Wassily Kandinsky Google Logo for your school
-Keith Harring Creativity Test worksheet
Deconstructivism in Art
A-level and GCSE students will enjoy learning about Ursus Wehrli in this introduction to DECONSTRUCTIVISM in Art.
-Differentiated Assessment Criteria for a deconstructive collage task
-Definition of Deconstructivism
-Guided Annotation
-Homework assignment
Artist Experimentation Survey
Use this printable worksheet to get your art & design students thinking and working more creatively.
Year 7, 8 & 9 Art Literacy Creativity Tests
Creative Literacy Drawing Challenge
Includes:
-Printable worksheets for key texts used in years 7, 8 & 9.
Activity: Students use different types of expressive lines and marks to interpret and draw a visual response inspired by the text.
Year 7: Theseus and the Minotaur
Year 8: Act 1, Scene 4, Macbeth
Year 9: Act 1, Scene 1, Romeo & Juliet
Random Name Generator
Use this easy powerpoint template to improve questioning in the classroom.
-All you have to do is input names of all students in your class
-Press S to start/stop the powerpoint
-engages students & keep everyone attentive
Hundertwasser Collaboration Art KS3 lesson
Use this resource to get your students working collaboratively to recreate Hundertwasser's 'End of the Waters' using oil pastel.
L.O.1: To develop blending skills using colouring pencils or oil pastels.
L.O.2: To work as a class to recreate Hundertwasser’s “End of the Waters”.
GCSE Art Practical Exam (Egg-zam)
An 'egg-cellent' way to push your students to draw and paint from observation without 'crackin' a sweat.
We used this activity as a 5 hour practical art exam.
Includes:
-2 lessons: Exam activity & imaginative response
-Step-by-step instructions for success
-Assessment criteria
-Visual examplars
-Links to relevant artists
All you need to do now is go buy some eggs!
Beginning & End Art GCSE Exam Planning
Still have students who aren't ready for their GCSE ART exam? I know I did... until I used this resource to get their ideas into shape.
Includes:
-Worksheet to plan out exam ideas
-Examples of exam planning sketches
-Questions to get students thinking about their exam
-Self-Assessment Checklist
Art & History Design a Medieval Shield
Use this KS2/KS3 Art & History lesson to engage students with medieval art and have them design a shield that represents their identity.
Includes:
-Assessment Criteria
-Examples of Medieval Shields
-Shield templates
Surrealism Collage
Surrealist Collage
-To write your own definition of “surrealism”
-To work in groups to recreate a famous surrealist work of art using collage.
Engage students in surrealism and have them experiment with collage to fulfil National Curriculum Key Concepts: A01 Develop & A02 Refine.
Inspiration for Art Exams
Use this unique resource to inspire students to see the world as artists and use the visual world around them to influence their work.
DADAism Art & Automatic Poetry
Use this lesson to introduce GCSE or A-level students to the conceptual art movement of DADAism and have them create their own random collages and automatic poetry.
Includes:
-Introduction to DADAism in Art
-Instructions for how to create a DADAist collage
-Instructions for how to create automatic poetry
-words to print out & use for automatic poetry
-examples of intended outcome
-homework tasks
Photography GCSE Exam Preperation
-Use this resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their GCSE 2017 Photography exam.
Features:
-Differentiated pathways to ensure student confidence and success in planning & producing a high quality final piece for the art exam
-Examples of high-quality outcomes
-Questions for students to evaluate where they are at with their exam-planning
-Strategies for how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes
DIRT time Dedicated. Independent. Response. Time
Explains what D.I.R.T. time is and how to make it an effective practice at your school.
GCSE Art Holiday Homework Beginning/End 2017 Edexcel
Need a quick homework to keep your GCSE students working on creating evidence for their Art portfolio for Beginning/End over the Easter break?
Use this!
Features...
-Checklist of holiday activities
-Focus on Researching artists & exploring personal interests
-Exemplars of A/B/C quality work
-AO4 Idea mindmap
Creativity Test Art
Baseline Creativity Test useful for all key stages
Features
-Instructions for Activity
-Assessment Criteria
-Visual Exemplars of outcome