Nature’s gift | Stage 2 Creative arts incursion
Program overview
Nature's gift is an incursion program where nature and digital art intertwines. Students use iPads to photograph, edit, and arrange natural materials into artworks. Selected artworks will be printed and framed for students to take home.
Learning intention
- We are learning to make a digital artwork that represents nature.
Activities
Art from nature
In the hall or large learning space, students will learn about various artists who use natural materials to create artworks. We’ll explore their techniques and tools, helping students understand how artworks are made.
Nature's treasures
Students explore their school grounds, finding inspiration in natural treasures like leaves, flowers, and stones. Each student will take photos of these materials to create digital specimens for their artworks.
Imagination workshop
Students will learn to create digital artworks inspired by various artists. They’ll review, edit, and enhance photos using iPad apps, learn to create layers of digital imagery with natural materials, and add drawings using a digital pencil.
Students will choose their favourite artwork to print on A4 photo paper at Field of Mars EEC. They’ll receive the frame and artwork at school later. Students will frame their artwork.
All artworks will be saved to Google Drive for school access.
This program is also available for Stage 1 and Stage 3.
Essential information
Cost and details
Cost 2026 |
DoE $18 per student – GST free Non-gov $24 per student – GST free, min charge $750 per class |
Risk assessment |
Risk management plan |
Classes |
Maximum 4 classes per day. 64 students per session. |
School preparation |
Schools to provide one extra large learning space, with a screen or projector, for all participating classes for the duration of the day. The space needs to accommodate multiple classes. |
Welfare |
For medical or special needs notify staff prior to program. |
Booking policy |
Confirm student numbers and classes 7 days in advance. |
Cancellation fee |
Less than 30 working school days – $600 Less than 7 working school days notice – full cost Weather or fire danger cancellation – $0 |
Suggested timetable
Time |
Classes |
| 9.00 - 11.00 | Classes 1 and 2 |
| 11.30 - 1.30 | Classes 3 and 4 |
This program works best in 2 hour blocks. This might require some classes to start recess or lunch early or late.
More than 4 classes will need to book an additional day.
Tier 2 and 3 vocabulary
Syllabus outcomes and content
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Visual Arts
Outcome
- Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences CA3-VIS-01
Content
Making: Artists represent their world in intentional ways through their artmaking practice
- Represent ideas or prespectives of their world and intentions in own artmaking and practice
- Apply understanding of materials, digital technologies and processes to represent intended ideas in artworks
- Explore artistic conventions and ways to represent subject matter and ideas in compositions
- Demonstrate safe artmaking practices with respect for physical, social, digital and cultural safety
Exhibiting: Artworks are displayed and curated to communicate intentional ideas to audiences
- Reflect on personal experiences and contributions as an artist, explaining how choices and decisions influenced the artwork and the ways it is understood by audiences
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus (2006)
Visual arts
Outcomes
VAS3.1 Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.
- closely observes details of things in the world and seeks to make artworks about these using various techniques such as proportion, perspective, composition, foreshortening
Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2006
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