Learning objective

  • To explore different ways of adding mood to a photograph.

Success criteria

  • I can help my partner to pose and
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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

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Display the Presentation: Käthe Kollwitz.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the Activity: Emotions (support) as a prompt in the Main event; could start with simpler poses or expressions, focusing on one element, like the head position, before incorporating hands expression; could work with a more confident pupil or a teaching assistant who can guide and model the process.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could replicate subtle details of expression, hand positioning and posture from the Käthe Kollwitz’s image; could desaturate and adjust contrast and brightness to ensure the final image has a strong monochrome quality, resembling the textures and tones of Käthe Kollwitz’s prints.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: posing to show a

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Vocabulary definitions

  • desaturate

    To remove the colour from an image, turning it into black and white or shades of grey.

  • emotion

    A feeling such as love or anger.

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Susan is an educator, artist and an active advocate and well-known champion of art craft and design education. Her roles include: Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Art, Craft, Design Education, Past President, and now Honorary Fellow of the National Society for…
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