A Sense of Place

#TheCompleteSeries6lessons

With plenty of inspirational resources, including lesson plans, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, picture cards, challenge cards and much more, these 'A Sense of Place' lessons contain everything you need to turn your class into a bunch of budding landscape artists!

#Lesson1Viewfinders

The first lesson in this series gives your class the chance to use viewfinders to find interesting views and features in a local environment. They will have fun finding and recording a variety of patterns and views as a way of gathering visual ideas for further artwork.

#Lesson2LandscapeArtists

Introduce your class to some of the most famous landscape artists of all time, such as Constable, Turner, Sisley and Gainsborough, as they study and compare a variety of images that use different methods and approaches to portray the environment around them.

#Lesson3Perspective

This lesson looks at how artists use perspective to draw the viewer into the image, exploring some different examples of the methods landscape artists use to do this. The slides also give some practical advice for how your class can translate and copy an image using a grid to ensure that the perspective and distance are correct.

#Lesson4ShapingLandscapes

This lesson allows your class to pool together all the ideas they have gathered so far to design their own piece of landscape artwork. Thinking about all they have learned, they will choose the scene they want to portray, the style and colours they would like to use and how they will incorporate perspective into their artwork.

#Lesson5CreatingLandscapes

Using their designs for landscapes, your class will get the chance to put their artistic skills to the test as they create the landscape artwork they have planned and designed. Looking at their sketched designs, they will learn how to translate this into a full-sized piece of artwork.

#Lesson6BecomingCritics

Turn your class into art critics as they take a look at the Class Art Gallery and study the work of other children, before looking in-depth at their own work to evaluate what worked well and what might have been improved.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• KS2 - to create sketch books to record their observations
• KS2 - use sketchbooks to review and revisit ideas
• KS2 - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing with a range of materials
• KS2 - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including painting with a range of materials
• KS2 - about great artists in history