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Lesson 4: Be an architect (Original scheme)

Children design a building, choosing whether to draw either a perspective view, plan view or a front elevation of their original house design

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Learning objective

To design a building in an architectural style

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

Develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design
Create sketchbooks to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
Learn about great artists, architects and designers in history

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May need help drawing a basic building shape or thinking of ideas. They should use images from the website to influence their own design, but try not to copy exactly.

Pupils working at greater depth: Should produce high quality designs that also show the inside of the building, using annotated notes to explain key features.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progression and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Paul Carney,

Art and design specialist

Paul has 22 years experience of teaching art as a specialist subject in both Primary and Secondary schools. He is a council member with the National Society for Education and his expertise has led him to deliver CPD for leading…

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