SHS3 Art And Design Foundation · Semester 1 Week 18: The World Around Us

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 3.2.1.LI.3 - Reflect on material responsibility, environment and emerging advocacy issues.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Explain what material responsibility means in art and design, and give at least three local examples of irresponsible material use.
Identify and record at least five environmental or ethical issues in their community that could be addressed through artistic advocacy.
Analyse a selected community issue (e.g., pollution, deforestation, excessive consumption) and explain how an artwork could advocate for change.
Work in mixed-ability groups to create a proposal for an advocacy artwork that responds to a real community environmental issue.
Present and defend their group’s artistic advocacy proposal, responding to questions and building on classmates’ ideas.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Aesthetics and Criticism (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: The World Around Us (2.1)
Content standard: 3.2.1.CS.1 - 3.2.1.CS.1 Reflect, analyse, and contribute to social inclusion and environmental issues in art. 3.2.1.LO.1 Appreciate and contribute to debates on material responsibility, and emerging advocacy issues in art. 3.2.1.LO.2 Ability to articulate technology as essential to the making of art and design in the 20th - 21st Centuries.
Indicator: 3.2.1.LI.3 - Reflect on material responsibility, environment and emerging advocacy issues.
Suggested placement: Semester 1, Week 18 (Week 18 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 119

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Problem-based Learning/ Building on What Others Say
- Brainstorm and record environmental issues, material responsibility and other issues that need to be tackled for change in the community.
- Examples: Alternative materials (for fuel, wood, construction, etc), pollution and environmental protection, animal rights and protection, responsible consumption, etc.
Group work/Collaborative Learning: In small groups investigate environmental issues, material responsibility, excessive consumption and other issues in the community for class discussion.
Project-based Learning:
- In mixed-ability groups , analyse selected environmental issues, material responsibility, excessive consumptions and other issues in the community as types of ethical causes for artistic advocacy.

Assessment (3.2.1.AS.3). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 1 Recall; Level 2 Skills of conceptual understanding; Level 3 Strategic reasoning; Level 4 Extended critical thinking and reasoning.

Teaching and Learning Materials:
- The environment
- Textbooks
- web references
- projector
- computer
- LCD Screens
- flip charts
- TLMs on human geography, environmental issues, gender politics, 21st century ethnicities, aesthetics and criticism