Making sense: art and wellbeing
I can support my wellbeing through creative expression.
Making sense: art and wellbeing
I can support my wellbeing through creative expression.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Artists explore their own wellbeing as a means of self-expression.
- Artists explore wellbeing in their art to raise awareness, and foster empathy and understanding in society.
- Art practice can promote relaxation providing a calming experience.
Keywords
Wellbeing - how you feel about yourself and your life
Express - share thoughts and feelings
Reflect - to think deeply about something
Common misconception
Thinking that everyone else's emotional state is as it appear to be.
People can’t support you if they don’t know you need it. When someone wears an emotional mask, it’s hard to know the real person.
To help you plan your year 9 art and design lesson on: Making sense: art and wellbeing, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 9 art and design lesson on: Making sense: art and wellbeing, 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 3 art and design lessons from the Art for life: expression and belonging unit, dive into the full secondary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Paper face mask or mask template, paint, marker pens, collage materials, glue, scissors.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - equipment
- Depiction or discussion of mental health issues
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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