Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Recognise the processes involved in creating prehistoric art.
- Explain approximately how many years ago prehistoric art was produced.
- Use simple shapes to build initial sketches.
- Create a large scale copy of a small sketch.
- Use charcoal to recreate the style of cave artists.
- Demonstrate good understanding of colour mixing with natural pigments.
- Discuss the differences between prehistoric and modern paint.
- Make choices about equipment or paint to recreate features of prehistoric art, experimenting with colours and textures.
- Successfully make positive and negative handprints in a range of colours.
- Apply their knowledge of colour mixing to make natural colours.
Suggested prior learning
Painting and mixed media: Life in colour
This assumes that you are following Kapow Primary’s Art & design Long-term plan – standard.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring prehistoric art
Lesson 2: Charcoal animals
Lesson 3: Prehistoric palette
Lesson 4: Painting on the cave wall
Lesson 5: Hands on a cave wall
Key skills
Generating ideas:
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Key knowledge
Formal elements:
- Colour:
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Key vocabulary
charcoal
composition
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Unit resources
Assessment – Art and design Y3: Painting and mixed media
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the
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Unit vocabulary
Subject resources
Art and design: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Art
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National curriculum mapping
This document maps the National curriculum
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Assessment
A spreadsheet for recording teacher assessments
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Unit vocabulary
This document lists the new vocabulary
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Equipment list
A checklist of art equipment required
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Art and design – List of artists
This document lists the artists studied
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Cross-curricular opportunities
History
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes