ART PROGRAM

CARS

STAGE ES1
OUTCOMES VAES1.2
VAES1.3
VAES1.4
INDICATORS - learn to focus on details in subject matter
- experiments with a range of media
- learns to communicate in graphic form
SUBJECT
MATTER CARS
FORMS Drawing, Painting, Collage
RESOURCES RESOURCES: school carpark, matchbox cars, road sign
poster, class road rug
MATERIALS: oil pastels, watercolours, artline pens, bremex
paper, art paper, scissors, glue, coloured dots, black edicol,
APPRECIATION - identifies colours, shapes and textures and can distinguish
scale
- discusses the qualities of a subject matter
- shows preference for particular artworks based on such
things as feelings, colours, subject matter, associations
- distinguishes a drawing from a painting from a collage

PERSPECTIVES Technology
LINKS HSIE, Literacy
ASSESSMENT Students were able to:
- represent qualities of cars and identify details in drawing
- use media appropriately to represent the subject matter
- explore parts of their lives in greater detail and verbalise
their thoughts on them
LEARNING EXPERIENCES

STAGE : ES1
SUBJECT MATTER : CARS

1. DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS DURATION : One Lesson

Students will-
- Discuss various forms of transport identifying things such as cars, bikes,
aeroplanes, boats, walking, buses, skateboards etc
- Talk about why we use these transports and group them into motorised,
wheeled and other forms
- Discuss how the world has been changed by new forms of transport eg.
Spaceships, monorails
- Look closely at matchbox cars and trucks taking note of the small details
and the view from the side of the car
- Use artline pen on small pieces of paper to draw the car in as much detail
as possible
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

2. CREATING CONTEXT DURATION : Three Lessons

Students will-
- Discuss different types of roads, highways, bridges, overpasses and
roundabouts and selected students will draw elements of each on the
whiteboard
- Use black oil pastel on art paper to draw a streetscape incorporating
some or all of the road types. Overlap the forms
- Ensure that the roads are in shape form and that they fill the page
- Use white or yellow oil pastel to draw in the centre broken lines on the
road
- Paint the roads in black watercolour allowing the oil pastel to act as a
resist
- Glue their now cut out (teacher) car drawing onto one of the roadways
- View a poster of street signs including STOP, children crossing and
traffic lights and draw one of these signs onto white card using the
correct coloured oil pastels
- Cut out the sign and collage it onto the work
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment
 3. CARS IN COLOUR DURATION : Two Lessons
Students will-
- Look again at matchbox and larger cars and trucks and identify the basic
shapes of the car
- Talk about the shapes as squares, rectangles, triangles, circles
- Construct the basic forms onto black bremex using pre cut shapes of
coloured bremex paper
- Glue the pieces on and use an artline to give details such as window
shapes, door handles, headlights etc.
- Collage onto the headlights brightly coloured dot stickers
- Discuss the noise a car would make and write those sounds on the
whiteboard eg. Vroom vroom, beep beep
- Use white artline to draw the road under the car and to write a text of the
cars noise at the back of the car
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment

4. LOOKING AT DETAILS DURATION : Three Lessons

Students will-
- Accompany the teacher to the school carpark and look at the details on
actual cars including number plates, brand names, grill design, wheels
- Use black and yellow oil pastel on large art paper to draw the number
plate of one of the cars in actual size
- Choose another colour to draw the wheel design as a repeat pattern on
their artwork
- Again choose another colour oil pastel to draw the grill design
overlapping previous drawings
- Return to the classroom and critique the work they have already done
looking at the patterns and shapes they have made by overlapping their
drawings
- Discuss the colours of traffic lights and choose one of those colours to
paint in 5 shapes in their artwork
- Use a second traffic light colour to paint 4 shapes ,and the third to paint 3
shapes
- Discuss how they came to create a pattern from car details and how their
audience might recognise the parts of a car
Date Completed Revised / Extended / Comment