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Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing

  • TLF-IDM021385

This is a very rich resource for students from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), which gives them an insight into the art of Shaun Tan through a focus on both the book and the film of The Lost Thing. The content focuses on aspects of storytelling, including themes, techniques, forms and language, visual, ...

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Real Chinese - Mini-guides - Chinese characters

  • TLF-IDM013192

This is a mini-guide with a linked game to the use of characters in Chinese. The resource provides detailed explanations on what characters are, the importance they play in Chinese culture, and the change from traditional to simplified characters. It demonstrates how characters have derived from pictographs and evolved ...

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Be on the Safe Side Year 9-10 English

  • TLF-IDM019250

This is a unit of work that uses visual and multimodal texts to explore rail safety on and around the rail network. Specific topics include: evaluative language, persuasive text, comparing texts and the creation of a visual and multimodal campaign to promote rail safety. The resource includes: teacher notes, three learning ...

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Activity: energy saving devices

  • TLF-IDM014393

This is a web resource about the symbols used on appliances and devices to indicate energy saving and energy rating. It provides a teacher guide and a student activity that prompts the student to carry out internet searches for images using the search terms 'energy saving' and 'energy rating' and to compare the results ...

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Making waves with Hokusai

  • TLF-IDM025951

Students create artworks and poetry inspired by the works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

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Scarecrow dancing

  • TLF-IDM025754

Students explore dance through scarecrow images and movements. They engage in creative play and create simple images.

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The dot

  • TLF-IDM025934

Students will listen to the story 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds and create artworks of real and imagined things inspired by the story. They also sing a song with simple actions.

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Inspire me …

  • TLF-IDM025944

Using stimulus material to inspire art and music. Learn about plastics in the ocean and what oceanographers have learnt through seascape artwork. Create an artwork based on a seascape and plastic waste, Explore graphic notation and create a city soundscape with an artwork as a stimulus.

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Autumn leaves

  • TLF-IDM025906

Explore dance, art and music through a song about Autumn leaves. Make some art works, dance like a leaf and learn to play the song on a keyboard instrument.

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Bird's eye art

  • TLF-IDM025773

A visual arts activity for students using aerial perspective and abstract forms.

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Creating a picture book

  • TLF-IDM016494

This resource focuses on how to create a picture book, including information, links and activities. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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Dinosaur dig

  • TLF-IDM025751

Students learn about the world of dinosaurs through creative arts. They explore elements of dance to develop coordination skills through movement and actions, as well as music and drama to create characters. They also create a dinosaur themed artwork.

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Big battles!

  • TLF-IDM025756

Students explore music and dance through body percussion and singing as they learn the story of the unicorn and lion's big battle. They create a collage artwork using images of lions and unicorns that they can find.

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Chicken challenge

  • TLF-IDM025772

Learn to use two-dimensional shapes to create a chicken artwork.

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Fun with flowers

  • TLF-IDM025958

Students discover the creative and scientific art of botanical illustration and respond to the drawing through poetry and music.

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When is a stick not a stick?

  • TLF-IDM025947

Explore a world of play and imagery, where nothing is as ordinary as it seems. Students respond imaginatively when using a stick as a stimulus to explore elements of drama and create characters. Students will develop their expressive skills through movement and voice. Students also create artworks using a stick as a stimulus.

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Shake the papaya tree

  • TLF-IDM025837

Find out more about papaya trees and then learn to draw one! Learn a song about climbing a tree and some movements to perform as you sing the song. Explore how to find the beat in the music.

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Brushes Redux - iTunes app

  • TLF-IDM019717

Create paintings using editable brushes with a range of brush effects. Includes layers, transparency, and ability to export and import images. Unlimited undo and redo allows you replay your brushstrokes. Images can be saved to camera roll, file sharing, emailed or posted on social media. Free when reviewed 27/5/2015.

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What a stretch!

  • TLF-IDM025926

Investigate the unique physical features of the giraffe and explore how giraffes are represented in art. Create your own giraffe artwork.

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Metamorphosis

  • TLF-IDM025969

Using drama and visual arts students explore a world of play and imagination where nothing is as ordinary as it seems.

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