Lesson Five – Garden Mosaics

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise selecting and working with pebbles to create a decorative sculpture illustrating something that might be seen and used in a garden location.

The class can explain and model how to layer and combine the materials when producing a sculpture of a garden object to represent a specific shape.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and working with pebbles to create a decorative sculpture illustrating something that might be seen and used in a garden location

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different materials that might be used in garden objects and a template to select and create a model of a 3D shape representing a garden object created using a range of materials and techniques.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use pebbles to create a decorative sculpture illustrating something that might be seen and used in a garden.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to select and use different materials to mould and shape sculptures representing a range of artefacts that might be used in a family garden location There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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