Craft and design: Map it out
This unit focuses on teaching children to explore and create maps through various art forms, including drawing, felt making, printmaking, and designing stained glass. The lessons aim to develop skills in sorting, designing, and evaluating art, encouraging students to present and discuss their creations in a class gallery setting. Use this unit hub to inform your medium-term plan and to navigate to related resources.
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Craft and design: Map it out
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Sort map images into groups, explaining their choices.
- Draw a map of their journey to school, including key landmarks and different types of mark-making.
- Follow instructions to make a piece of felt that holds together and resembles their map.
- Decide how to place ‘jigsaw’ pieces to create an abstract composition.
- Make choices about which details from their map to include in a stained glass.
- Cut cellophane shapes with care and arrange them into a pleasing composition.
- Design a print with simple lines and shapes, making improvements as they work.
- Follow a process to make and print from a polystyrene tile.
- Choose a favourite artwork, justifying their choice.
- Annotate their favourite artwork with relevant evaluation points.
- Take an active part in decisions around how to display their artworks in the class gallery.
Suggested prior learning
Craft and design: Woven wonders
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Lesson 1: Creative journey
- To investigate maps as a stimulus for drawing.
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Lesson 2: Making felt – option 1
- To learn and apply the steps of the felt-making process.
Lesson 3: Abstract maps
- To experiment with a craft technique to develop an idea.
Lesson 4: Print possibilities
- To develop ideas and apply craft skills when printmaking.
Lesson 5: Gallery experience
- To present artwork and evaluate it against a design brief.
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