Transcript Integrating the Creative Arts on Themes

Advance Australia Fair
Lesson ideas for Visual
arts, Dance, Drama ,
Music
Visual Arts
• Give each group one line of the song
and have them illustrate it to show
their understanding of the line.
• Display these across the room
• Photograph them and create a
Powerpoint of the song using
children’s artworks
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MUSIC*
• In groups, add instruments (found
and body percussion) to describe
each line of each verse
• Add different dynamic levels for
each line
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MUSIC
Australians, all, let us rejoice,
For we are young and free!
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil
Our home is girt by sea.
Our land abounds with nature’s gifts
Of beauty, rich and rare.
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
‘Advance Australia Fair!’
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Drama*
• Look at a variety of visual representations of
the lines from Advance Australia Fair, or use
your own artwork.
• In groups, use one line as a stimulus for
improvisation, eg. Home is girt by sea
• Think about:
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What is happening
Why it is happening
Who is involved
What are they feeling
Why they are acting this way
How the improvisation starts, climaxes and ends, etc
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DRAMA:
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• Create a group sculpture depicting
an Australian natural scene or
built icon.
– Have other children guess what it is.
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MUSIC:
Brainstorm words, then create a new
verse to reflect our BUILT Environments
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Creating a new Verse
to reflect our BUILT Environments
We’ve built our nation brick by brick,
Our buildings stand so fine!
Our bridges, towers and monuments,
Our heritage sublime!
Look east and west and north and south,
O’er landscapes rich or bare,
We’ve made our mark on history’s page,
Advance, Australia Fair!
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MUSIC:
Brainstorming words and pictures
for NATURAL Environments
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Creating and new Verse to reflect
our NATURAL Environments
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MUSIC: Rhythm Rap
about NATURAL Environments
Deserts, farmlands, mountains high,
Rainforest, Uluru, rivers dry,
Waterfalls, billabongs, golden sand,
All together make up this land.
Add OSTINATO: Natural Australia
Add a melody using the notes
C, D, E, G A on a xylophone.
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Visual Arts
• After a visit to a rainforest or
other natural environment, have
children develop a poster about
what they have learned; include a
scientific description and a poem
• Repeat this activity with a built
environment
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Drama
• Examine Jeannie
baker’s book:
Window
– One scene is depicted
through a window,
changing over time,
shown
every 2 years in the
child’s life
– Natural environment
moving to Built
environment
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Drama
• Take the Advance Australia Fair scene you have
improvised in the previous lesson, and repeat it
as though it was 50 years previously, then 50
years in the future.
• Hot seating: ask individual characters questions
about:
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
How? etc.
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Dance*
• Look at a variety of photos of natural and built
environments
• In groups, create a series of movements to
show a natural environment using the bodies of
each person in the group
• Then move slowly to show the beginning of a
built environment until the whole group body
sculpture depicts a build environment.
• Repeat these series of movements to percussion
instruments or music with a strong beat.
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Drama/ Visual Arts / HSIE
• Extension: Create a puppet play based on
an environmental theme, eg:
– Living on the farm / living in the city
– Grandparents talking to grandchildren
about the changes they have seen in
their neighbourhood, etc.
– Woodchips or forests?
– Reduce, recycle, reuse
– Shopping Centre or Parkland?
– The destruction of the rainforest
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Advance Australia Fair
For further information,
see Chapter 9 in
MMADD: About the
Arts: An introduction to
Primary Arts Education
by Deirdre Russell-Bowie,
published by Pearson
Education Australia