Lesson Three – People and Umbrellas

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, compare and describe how different types of weather can be represented in paintings using a range of art techniques.

The class can practise mixing and using paint to record and illustrate how rain might fall on an umbrella when someone is outside in a special type of weather.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify, compare and describe how different types of weather can be represented in paintings using a range of art techniques

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how the weather can be depicted in a painting and describe different shades of blue that could be used to depict rain in a painting and a template to select and record shades of colours by mixing paints to show rain falling on an umbrella.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compare and describe how the weather can be represented in paintings.

This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise different techniques of painting scenes depicting a specific type of rain to simulate natural phenomena in a range of different landscapes. 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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