Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 4
Imagining a better future
I can use creativity and design to imagine hopeful futures for people and the planet.
- Year 4
Imagining a better future
I can use creativity and design to imagine hopeful futures for people and the planet.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Art can encourage viewers to consider how their actions today might shape tomorrow.
- A mix of plastic and natural materials could be discovered by future geologists, similar to fossils.
Keywords
Harmony - when different parts work peacefully together
Sustainability - something that cares for and protects the planet
Imagine - to picture or design something in your mind
Common misconception
Nature and cities can’t go together.
Remind pupils that many cities already mix nature into their design - with green roofs, gardens, trees, and wildlife spaces. Cities can be sustainable and nature-friendly.
To help you plan your year 4 art and design lesson on: Imagining a better future, 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: Imagining a better future, 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 Recording, noticing, and caring: responding to nature and the planet unit, dive into the full primary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Sketchbook and drawing media.
Licence
Lesson video
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