Lesson Two – Beach Shapes

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to shape and combine different materials to create matching examples of objects that might be seen on a beach.

The class can identify and record some of the special vocabulary words that can be used to describe what makes each material special and unique such as soft sand and hard rocks.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to shape and combine different materials to create matching examples of objects that might be seen on a beach

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify vocabulary words that can be used to describe different materials found at the seaside and templates to select and use special materials to create the matching shape of an object that might be seen on a beach.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use different materials to create the matching shapes of objects that might be seen on a beach.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to select and use a range of different natural materials found on a beach to produce some model sculptures on the theme of the seaside. 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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