Watercolour water collaboration
I can plan and prepare for a collaborative artwork.
Watercolour water collaboration
I can plan and prepare for a collaborative artwork.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Artists can either make work by themselves or work collaboratively with other artists.
- Artists can use their imagination to combine ideas from a range of sources.
- Artists can experiment with a range of painting techniques to create textured papers.
Keywords
Collaboration - working together to make an artwork
Imagination - combining colors, shapes, and patterns from nature, books, and your own experiences
Painting technique - using a variety of tools and methods to apply paint
Common misconception
Artists always make artwork by themselves.
Remind children that artists can choose to work by themselves, but they can also plan and make work collaboratively.
To help you plan your year 1 art and design lesson on: Watercolour water collaboration, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 art and design lesson on: Watercolour water collaboration, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 art and design lessons from the Reflections on water: introducing painting unit, dive into the full secondary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Watercolour paints, water pots, large briushes, backing paper or lining paper to roll out on tables, bubble wrap, tin foil, salt, tissues.
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
4 Questions
Exit quiz
4 Questions
