People in Action - The Complete Series (6 lessons)

Including lesson plans, informative slides, differentiated activity ideas, worksheets and picture cards, these 'People in Action' lessons have everything you need to teach this lively and action-packed module!

The first lesson in this series starts by showing your class some different examples of movement, particularly body movement, in art. They can then practise some poses and slow-motion movements together before sketching some of these poses from first-hand observation.

Get your class to do some 'face acting' in this lesson as they explore how the features of the face change when engaged in physical activity, with a variety of images to study and imitate. They can then have a go at sketching some different facial expressions and look at how the expression on cartoon faces can be altered with a few simple tricks.

This lesson gives your class the opportunity to study the work of different artists who portray movement in their work, including Muybridge, Boccioni and Delaunay, and looks at different techniques used to create the illusion of movement. They can then use these pieces as the inspiration for their own examples of movement art.

Use the step-by-step guide on the slides in this lesson to teach your class how to create interesting montages that give the illusion of movement by placing the same figure in a series of different positions. They can then add their own features to their montages to express their creativity.

This hands-on lesson looks at a different way of creating movement art by using a press print to repeat an identical image. They will think back to the montages they created in the previous lesson and consider how they can extend this and how they can improve their work.

The final lesson in this series gives your class the chance to gather all the ideas they have collected throughout the scheme of work to create their own independent piece of movement art, drawing on the work of artists studied and the work they have previously created.