Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Experiment with mark-making using handmade tools to create key features of Maya art.
- Create an artwork using symbols, patterns and colours to represent their personality, inspired by Maya art.
- Use the drawing technique of chiaroscuro to show light and dark.
- Identify features of an ancient Maya face sculpture and apply these to design their own sculpture.
- Apply clay techniques to create a Maya face sculpture.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 6: Making connections: Imagining the future
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Experimental mark making
Lesson 2: Symbolic art
Lesson 3: Chiaroscuro
Lesson 4: Maya face sculptures
Lesson 5: Making clay sculptures
Key skills
Experiencing
- E.01 Encounter, sense, experiment
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Key vocabulary
blend
chiaroscuro
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Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design S6: Making connections: Maya art
A display version of the unit vocabulary.
