Students create lap books based on plants. Work in created on foldables and pasted in lapbooks.

Create a digital cover for Plants in Action Folder

Youve Got Food on Your Face!

Appreciation Examine how Arcimbaldo uses food to create compositional faces which reflect the four seasons. See Art notebook images.

Discuss the titles of the artworks. Focus discussion on how the overall composition is the first recognisable image/shape. The smaller elements (fruits, seeds and vegetables) and individual shapes play an integral role in how that shape is cleverly created. Making Students create their own compositional face by using their profile outline. Students trace their profile shadow from an overhead projector onto a wall or trace the shape from a photograph onto a piece of thick cardboard. Using the outline students arrange an assortment of seeds, grains, nuts and other plant materials to create their own artwork. Students can glue their design onto thick cardboard using PVA glue or take a photo of their design sitting loosely on the cardboard.

Sunflowers

Appreciation View Van Goghs sunflower has series of paintings. Making Students create their own version of Van Goghs sunflowers by painting a sunflower from a different perspective such a close up, portion of the flower or experimenting with the positioning of the flower on the paper such as in a corner. Students need to focus on the use of warm colours and the use of a cool colour to frame the background. Students experiment with the use a variety of shapes and lines to create visual texture in the centre of the flower. Sunflower series artworks (Art Notebook). Discuss the subject of Van Goghs still life paintings including the different way s the been represented in the paintings ranging from full bloom to withering. Emphasise the cycle of life and death represented in the Use questions to prompt and guide classroom discussion

Margaret Preston Appreciation View Margaret Prestons artworks of native Australian flora (Art Notebook). Ask students to think about how they think Preston created her artworks. Using the appropriate slides in the Art Notebook, discuss the traditional Japanese method of woodblock printing used in the Edo period (17th-19th century). Look at the examples of art of the floating world (ukiyo-e). Go for a walk with students around the school environment to look at the trees and plants. Students collect leaf and flower samples. Students may also like to bring in native Making Students *Four create their own print based on a native flower found at school or home. separate stations will need to be setup around the room to complete this activity flowers from home for this activity.

1. Preparation Area- for constructing the block-cutting and gluing 2. Inking/ Painting Area- for inking/painting the block-a table covered with newspaper and setup with four plastic tubs. 3. Printing Area- a clean dry table where the paper is placed and printed on with the paint coated block facing up 4. Drying Area- an area where the prints can be dried

Session 1
Students draw shapes to represent the flowers and leaves that they have collected on thick cardboard. Students cut out shapes and glue them onto A4 sized cardboard using PVA glue and allow to dry overnight.

Session 2
Spread paint/ink in the roll up tray and roll the paint out in the tray with a foam roller using up and down strokes. Place the block in the other tray and ink it using the paint, by rolling the roller over it. Take the block to the printing table. Place a piece of large art paper gently over block and rub the back of paper evenly with a flat hand, being careful not to move the paper.

Session 3
Once dry students can choose to hand colour the prints using textas or pastel crayons. Seed germination drama activity Students watch YouTube clips of stop motion growth seeds into plants. Students then re-enact the growth using their own bodies. Students film their dramatic interpretations and watch to provide feedback on the effectiveness of their performance in relation to the actual process of growth. Students must think carefully about each step of the germination process