TITLE / Animal Printmaking Unit / LEVEL 4 / Yr 9 /

FIELD

/ Drawing into Printmaking /

DURATION

/ 4 weeks
STRAND
/ ü/ û /

ACHIEVEMENT OBJECTIVES

/ LEARNING OUTCOMES – the students will:

PK

/ ü / Students will apply knowledge of elements and principles and use techniques, tools, and processes to compose images and make objects, employing a variety of materials and media. / Gain understandings of composition which relates to the artist model.
Use appropriate techniques and processes to construct a printing block
Use appropriate techniques and processes to produce a series of prints
DI / ü / Students will use established art-making conventions to initiate and develop ideas in response to a variety of motivations.
CI / ü / Students will explore describe how technologies used to communicate ideas and influence meaning.
UC / ü / Students will investigate the functions of objects and images in past and present cultures and identify contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

/ ü/ û /

UNIT GLOSSARY WORDS

COMMUNICATION / ü / ·  Design process
·  Collograph
·  Proportions
·  Artist model
·  Construction
INFORMATION / ü
WORK AND STUDY / ü
PHYSICAL / ü
NUMERACY
PROBLEM SOLVING / ü
SOCIAL/CO-OPERATIVE / ü
SELF-MANAGEMENT/COMPETITIVE / ü

RESOURCES

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EVIDENCE REQUIRED - WORK COMPLETED

Artist model handouts, pencils
Printing ink
Newspaper, card, wall paper - construction materials / 2
2
1
1
3 / journal pages – images of selected animals
journal page (Tuffery work)
journal page design for reduction print
Reduction print block
Edition of 3 reduction prints
TIME / LESSON PLAN / ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
Week 1 / Introduction to the unit, rules etc – Discuss assignment and Learning outcomes
Talk about printmaking theory; - anything that makes an image of itself and can be replicated; e.g. a rubbing is a kind of print, finger print, using potatoes, card, glue, string, lino, wood, litho and dry point etching. Talk about similarities and differences. Explain assessment and unit as such.
From books or worksheets on animals from the library the students are to fill two pages with three drawings of different images. / 2 journal pages
Week 2 / Discuss and demonstrate collograph process
Using an A4 piece of cardboard and an A3 piece of card the students are to cut up and make a collagraph printing block image based on a small part of their animal with a boarder created with part of your animal. / Cardboard block
Week
3 and 4 / Cutting up and making collagraphs.
Print these images – on a piece of brown, sugar grey and cartridge paper. Black ink.
Record notes and images from Tuffery handout. / Prints
2 journal pages (Tuffery work)
EVIDENCE / DEVELOPING / ACHIEVED / MERIT / EXCELLENCE
Work Habits
The way you manage and organise your time in class, completing tasks and meeting deadlines. / ¨  Works under direction and has some organisational skills. Meets minimum work requirements. / ¨  Works with some motivation and organisational skills. Meets work requirements. / ¨  Works with motivation and has good organisational skills. Meets work requirements. / ¨  Consistently works with motivation and has effective organisational skills. Meets work requirements.
Drawing
Use and understanding of composition which relates to the artist model. / q  Begins to use compositional processes to record and develop ideas. / q  Uses compositional processes to record and develop ideas with some understanding and control. / q  Uses compositional processes to record and develop ideas with understanding and control. / q  Uses compositional processes to record and develop ideas with understanding control and inventiveness.
Collagraph
Use the print processes and techniques to create an image relating to the drawing processes that you used previously. / q  Begins to use selected printmaking processes, and materials appropriate to collagraphs. Records and develops ideas with limited competence. / q  Uses selected printmaking processes, and materials appropriate to collagraphs. Records and develops ideas with some understanding and control. / q  Uses selected printmaking processes, and materials appropriate to collagraphs. Records and develops ideas with understanding and control. / q  Uses selected printmaking processes, and materials appropriate to collagraphs. Records and develops ideas with understanding, control and inventiveness.