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Unit 1: Drawing: Make your mark Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Colour splash Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Paper play Unit 4: Craft and design: Woven wonders Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Landscapes using different media

Unit 1: Drawing: Tone and texture Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Life in colour Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses Unit 4: Craft and design: Map it out Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Superheroes View all Units

Unit 1: Drawing: Developing drawing skills Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Prehistoric painting Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Abstract shape and space Unit 4: Craft and design: Ancient Egyptian scrolls Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Shadow puppets

Unit 1: Drawing with realism: Exploring tone, texture and proportion Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Light and dark Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials Unit 4: Craft and design: Fabric of nature Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Exploring geometric patterns View all Units

Unit 1: Drawing: Expressive drawing and mark making Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Portraits Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Interactive installation Unit 4: Craft and design: Architecture Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Imagining the future

Unit 1: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Artist study Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Making memories Unit 4: Craft and design: Photo opportunity Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Maya art View all Units

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Lesson 1: Exploring line Lesson 2: Musical lines Lesson 3: Exploring shapes Lesson 4: Shape in art Lesson 5: Klee portraits

Lesson 1: Making colours Lesson 2: Painting with colour Lesson 3: Printing with paint Lesson 4: Exploring colour mixing Lesson 5: Clarice Cliff plates

Lesson 1: Tube towers Lesson 2: 3D drawings Lesson 3: Tree of life Lesson 4: Creating a giant spider model Lesson 5: Painting a giant spider

Lesson 1: Is it art? Lesson 2: Wool wrapping Lesson 3: Exploring thread Lesson 4: Warp and weft Lesson 5: Fibre art

Lesson 1: Observational pencil drawings Lesson 2: Drawing faces Lesson 3: Painting to music Lesson 4: Cutting skills Lesson 5: Paper animal sculptures

Lesson 1: Composition Lesson 2: Beach textures Lesson 3: Shades and colours of the sea Lesson 4: Painting over texture Lesson 5: Beach collage

Lesson 1: Exploring drawing materials Lesson 2: Understanding and creating texture Lesson 3: Exploring tonal shading Lesson 4: Sketching and refining a drawing Lesson 5: Creating an observational drawing

Lesson 1: Colour fun Lesson 2: Texture hunt Lesson 3: Making textures Lesson 4: Collage creation Lesson 5: Developing detail

Lesson 1: Exploring clay Lesson 2: Pinch pots Lesson 3: Applying skills in clay Lesson 4: Designing a tile Lesson 5: House tiles

Lesson 1: Creative journey Lesson 2: Relief maps Lesson 3: Abstract maps Lesson 4: Print possibilities Lesson 5: Creating artwork

Lesson 1: Junk model animals Lesson 2: 3D colour drawings Lesson 3: Repeating patterns Lesson 4: Roller coaster ride Lesson 5: Drawing for fun

Lesson 1: Drawing expressions Lesson 2: Drawing characters Lesson 3: Understanding pattern Lesson 4: Creating a superhero Lesson 5: Creating a superhero background

Lesson 1: See like an artist Lesson 2: Shading Lesson 3: Take a closer look Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom Lesson 5: Paper to pixels

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

Lesson 1: Structural shapes Lesson 2: Constructing in 3D Lesson 3: Seeing space Lesson 4: Abstract sculpture Lesson 5: Surface decoration

Lesson 1: Exploring Ancient Egyptian art Lesson 2: Designing scrolls Lesson 3: Making paper Lesson 4: Scroll making Lesson 5: Making zines

Lesson 1: Botanical drawing Lesson 2: Botanical prints Lesson 3: Abstract flowers Lesson 4: Botanical collage Lesson 5: Art in different forms

Lesson 1: Notan Lesson 2: Drawing a storyboard Lesson 3: Designing shadow puppets Lesson 4: Making shadow puppets Lesson 5: Performing a shadow puppet play

Lesson 1: 3D pencil drawings Lesson 2: Texture and tone Lesson 3: Understanding proportion Lesson 4: Creating an effective composition Lesson 5: Using texture, tone and proportion in drawing

Lesson 1: Tints and shades Lesson 2: Three dimensions Lesson 3: Painting techniques Lesson 4: Composition Lesson 5: Still life

Lesson 1: From 2D to 3D Lesson 2: Soap sculptures Lesson 3: Working with wire Lesson 4: Shadow sculpture Lesson 5: Recycle and recreate

Lesson 1: Inspired by the rainforest Lesson 2: One picture, four views Lesson 3: Creating patterns Lesson 4: Repeating patterns Lesson 5: Fabric design

Lesson 1: Mechanical compositions Lesson 2: Wax resist Lesson 3: Power prints Lesson 4: Relief sculptures Lesson 5: Exploring impasto

Lesson 1: Geometric patterns around the world Lesson 2: Seed of Life Lesson 4: Symmetrical flip patterns Lesson 3: Tessellations Lesson 5: Geometric tile prints

Lesson 1: Expressing movement Lesson 2: Showing emotion through line Lesson 3: Showing depth through mark making Lesson 4: Composition for printing Lesson 5: Printing

Lesson 1: Poem portrait Lesson 2: Developing drawings Lesson 3: Self-portraits Lesson 4: Changing faces Lesson 5: Mixed media portraits

Lesson 1: What is installation art? Lesson 2: Space and scale Lesson 3: Everyday amazing Lesson 4: Creative concepts Lesson 5: Viewer experience

Lesson 1: Observational drawing - houses Lesson 2: House monoprint Lesson 3: Be an architect Lesson 4: Friedensreich Hundertwasser Lesson 5: Monuments

Lesson 1: Expressive portraits Lesson 2: Exploring materials Lesson 3: Sustainable sculptures Lesson 4: Art from everyday objects Lesson 5: Textured portraits

Lesson 1: Space imagery and retrofuturism Lesson 2: Drawing decisions Lesson 3: Teis Albers Lesson 4: A vision of the future Lesson 5: Revisiting ideas

Lesson 1: What is street art? Lesson 2: How do artists use one-point perspective? Lesson 3: Scaling up Lesson 4: Planning street art Lesson 5: Making street art

Lesson 1: Lisa Ericson Lesson 2: Animal paintings Lesson 3: Fiona Rae Lesson 4: Carl Larsson Lesson 5: Watercolour scenes

Lesson 1: Exploring self Lesson 2: Relief sculptures Lesson 3: Memory museum Lesson 4: Memory sculpture Lesson 5: Complete and reflect

Lesson 1: Photomontage Lesson 2: Macro photography Lesson 3: Digital art Lesson 4: Recreating paintings Lesson 5: Photorealistic self-portraits

Lesson 1: Graffiti tags Lesson 2: Drawing with a camera Lesson 3: Photo collages Lesson 4: Expressive painting Lesson 5: Adding texture and depth

Lesson 1: Experimental mark making Lesson 2: Symbolic art Lesson 3: Chiaroscuro Lesson 4: Maya face sculptures Lesson 5: Making clay sculptures

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