Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 4
Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories
I can create a wrapped sculpture that shows hidden stories.
- Year 4
Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories
I can create a wrapped sculpture that shows hidden stories.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- A sculpture can show feeling, memory or a story without using faces or details.
- Wrapping a form can protect, hide or express something personal.
- Simple shapes can be transformed into powerful and symbolic sculpture.
- Skills in sculpture techniques can be applied to expressive art.
Keywords
Sculpture - a three-dimensional piece of art made by shaping or combining materials
Wrap - to cover by circling or folding something around
Form - to take or make something take a particular shape
Identity - all of those things by which a person or thing is known or is considered as being
Common misconception
My sculpture needs to show action or be realistic.
Our sculpture can be still, soft, or bulky. It doesn't need to move or look like a real person to hold meaning. Wrapping and shaping can show something inside you, a memory, a feeling or a story, without using words.
To help you plan your year 4 art and design lesson on: Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 4 art and design lesson on: Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 2 art and design lessons from the Clothes and culture: wearable art unit, dive into the full primary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
large sheets of paper including A3 and A4, drawing medium, (optional music), masking tape, scissors, paper cups, cones, fabric strips, string, wool and yarn.
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