Visual Arts: Telling

Welcome to our toolkit for using What's Your Story? in your Senior Phase Arts and Culture: Visual Arts lessons. These resources are categorised into two sections: asking and listening and telling. We recommend you always begin with asking and listening to build a helpful foundation for your learners. View the content for asking and listening here.

In this section, there are five lesson plans that cover three topics. The lessons include presentations, keywords, handouts and audiovisual materials, which can be viewed and accessed directly from each lesson section, or downloaded individually from our resources page.

In addition, we have several teacher training videos that can be downloaded or watched online in preparation for taking your learners through this course:

We also have a PDF of all the lesson plans available, if you would prefer to use them that way.

Topic 1: Create in 2D

Own a wider world: Observation and interpretation of learner's own visual world.

    • Lesson 3: Our stories in pictures
    • Lesson 4: Public and private telling
    • Lesson 5: My life, my movie poster

    Topic 2: Create in 3D

    Three-dimensional artworks and design projects based on learner's own world, focusing on art elements and design principles.

      • Lesson 1: Our emotions
      • Lesson 2: Safe spaces

      Topic 3: Visual literacy

      Communication skills: express, identify/name, question and reflect through looking, talking, listening and writing about the visual world through the language of art elements and design principles.

        • Lesson 1: Our emotions
        • Lesson 2: Safe spaces
        • Lesson 3: Our stories in pictures
        • Lesson 4: Public and private telling
        • Lesson 5: My life, my movie poster