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      Going on an adventure

      • TLF-IDM025955

      Explore drama and visual arts activities using an adventure story as a stimulus.

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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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      Chicken challenge

      • TLF-IDM025772

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

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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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      Making waves with Hokusai

      • TLF-IDM025951

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

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      The Art and Science of Impressionist Color

      • TLF-IDM021311

      In this sequence of lessons, students will learn about the Impressionist painters' use of colour and how it connected to early-19th-century scientific theories about colour. They will explore combinations of primary and secondary colours, experiment creating secondary colours, and create a landscape using complementary colours.

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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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      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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      SketchBook

      • TLF-IDM013072

      This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating drawings and sketches using virtual professional-grade tools and brushes, and imaging techniques. It features a full-screen workspace and an 11-icon menu including pan and zoom navigation, a brush editor, colour wheels with HSB and RBG colour space, an eye-dropper ...

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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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      Creating Avatars

      • TLF-IDM016142

      The resource provides advice and help for students to create avatars as visual representation for a variety of publications. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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      The Umbrella Movement: Protests in Hong Kong

      • TLF-IDM021722

      This lesson sequence examines the relationship between China and Hong Kong and explores the methods and symbolism behind the democracy protests that occurred when Beijing blocked nominations for the election of Hong Kong's chief executive in 2017.

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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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      Finding your frame

      • TLF-IDM025918

      Developing a concept by making artworks from found objects. Explore how artist, James Powditch, assembles found objects to create artworks inspired by his love of film.

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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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      Brushing up on animals

      • TLF-IDM025978

      Students discover techniques for drawing animals and painting an artwork.

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      Visual humour

      • TLF-IDM016369

      This resource focuses on how humour is created in images, films and multimodal texts. It includes activities and reading strategies to support the analysis and understanding of the processes of visual humour in texts. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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      Sites2See: How to communicate with aliens

      • TLF-IDM016368

      Through the ages humans have used symbols and symbol systems to communicate with one another. Students are challenged to compile a message that could be understood by anyone in the world and possibly beyond.

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      Composing a graphic novel

      • TLF-IDM016603

      This resource examines how authors and illustrators design and develop graphic novels. Student can use the resources to design, develop and publish their own graphic novel. Contains a list of print and digital resources needed to teach the unit. This resource supports the Australian Curriculum in English K–10.

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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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