Lesson Five – Underwater Collage

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate how to select, shape and combine a range of different materials to build a collage picture illustrating life that can be found under the sea.
The class can explain and model how to change and alter different materials to make plants, animals and textures for their sea collage scene representing a marine habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to select, shape and combine a range of different materials to build a collage picture illustrating life that can be found under the sea
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of changing a range of materials for use in artwork and a template to record some of the different ways of working with materials when producing a collage of an underwater scene.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to select and shape a range of different materials to build a collage picture illustrating life under the sea.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to combine and shape a selection of different natural and art materials to produce artwork reflecting ideas and themes about the sea. 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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