Imagining a better future

Art and design

Drawing natural forms in an abstract style

An artist's respond to plastic waste

Recording environmental textures

Art that shows nature’s resilience

Pupils will look at the theme of fossils as a starting point for this unit. They make and abstract a drawing of a fossil using chalk pastels and charcoal. Pupils design and make a 3D fossil of the future sculpture using the casting process and design principles.

Recording, noticing, and caring: responding to nature and the planet

different parts working peacefully together

To imagine means to {{}} something in your mind before making it.

future ways people and nature can live together

Mary Mattingly’s floating gardens help us imagine ...

True or false? Harmony means humans and nature support and share with each other.

Which natural textures might artists use to make their designs richer?

True or false? Ephemeral art is artwork that is designed to last forever.

Which of these is an example of ephemeral art?

True or false? You can walk around a sculpture and see it from different angles.

Put these steps in the correct order for making a simple sculpture:

Imagining a better future

Lesson outcome