Unit Planner: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives and Reconciliation Week Lesson 1: Introduction to Aboriginal art and dot painting Lesson 2: How the Kangaroos got their Tails Lesson 3: How the Birds got their Colours Lesson 4: Dot painting artwork of Australian animals 2. To be exposed to underlying messages in Dreamtime texts 3. Hand control in dot-painting formation. GENERAL OUTCOMES CONTENT DESCRIPTORS (AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM) 1. To understand the conventions of Aboriginal | Humanities and Social Sciences dot painting. Sequence familiar objects and events (ACHASSIO21) Visual Arts Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strat Islander artists (ACAVAM106) Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108) Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strat slander Peoples (ACAVAR109) Literacy Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text (ACELT1578) Foundation Discuss how authors create characters using language and images (ACELT1581) ~ Year 1 LET Show YouTube clip of dot-painting around hand as a model, ‘Make your own example for students to see as well Students individually place their hands on the page for teachers to trace around. Staff to model dot painting ‘around the hand, students to continue. LEZ Students to read the book ‘How the Kangaroos got their Tails’ as a group. Students to use their dot painting skills on a kangaroo. Le3 Read ‘How the Birds got their Colours’ as a group. ‘Students then go through the story again as a class and ‘match the events of the story in order. ‘Students to pair up in classes and paint one event from the story together. Lea Students to use their understanding of dot painting to choose an animal and dot paint in various colours. To be presented on A4 black paper. Resources: - Black A4 paper - How the Kangaroos got their Tails text - How the Birds got their Colours text - Paint, paint brushesSTUDENT WORK SAMPLES Tie = ee _ Ue ee lane entry |