All things big and small
Lesson Six: BIG ART ATTACK
Taken from YouTube
Lesson Objectives
To discover how one object alone can be used to create 'big art'.
To collaborate as a class to create our own 'big art attack'.
Teachers Notes
Art Attack may be a familiar program to teachers and children, and should be sure to engage and enthuse children about art. This particular clip involves the creatio of the face of Queen Elizabeth II from ten pound notes, which has a link to the previous lesson where the ten pound note was of focus. This video may provide additional links to discussion of mathematics in terms of money, for example 'How many notes do you think is used in total?' or 'How much would they be worth in total?'.
The main tool of this video, is to inspire and engage the children. The video could be stopped at specific points, while the children try and guess what is being made. This should in turn motivate them to feel the same enthusisiam when thinking about their class 'big art attack'.
Key Questions and Vocabulary
1. How did you feel at the start of the video? How did you feel at the end?
2. Do you like the creation?
3. Can you describe how it was created?
4. Can you name four things the artist takes into consideration when creating this big art?
Space- Scale- Silhouette
The Lesson as Part of a Sequence
This is the last image/video to be used to conclude the children's investigation into 'all things big and small' in art. The video should be an exciting and enagaing end, whereby the children's understanding of 'scale' should be secured through discussing its key role in the video's end creation.
The activity will involve the whole class working togehter collaboratively in order to create their very own 'big art attack', which means all children's ideas and knowledge that have been developed throughout this theme will be contributed and valued. The teacher will guide the session, and discuss that their focus of their 'big art attack' should involve one of the creations they have all worked on, e.g. their landscape, or big bug, tower, or photograph.
The whole class can then decide or vote on what they would like their focus to be and what they can then create. This will require some considerable space; therefore a hall or outside area would be required. It would be good to have some ideas already to hand, to prompt the children if they are struggling. For example, they could create their own huge 'bug' using their bug drawings.
Freedom to explore and experiment throughout this will allow for the creation of this unique class 'big art attack'!