Planning and creating a final 3D piece
I can resolve my ideas and produce a meaningful outcome
Planning and creating a final 3D piece
I can resolve my ideas and produce a meaningful outcome
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Planning helps ensure your final piece reflects your ideas and style.
- Choosing techniques and materials should support your design voice.
- A final piece should show thought, skill, and a personal response.
Keywords
Outcome / final piece - the end result following a period of creative work
Resolve - to refine and complete, addressing all details, ensuring it looks cohesive and communicates your concept effectively
Common misconception
A final piece must be large scale and completely finished.
A final piece or outcome is just the end point in your journey so far, it should resolve your ideas but it can do this in many ways and in different scales.
To help you plan your year 10 art and design lesson on: Planning and creating a final 3D piece, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 art and design lesson on: Planning and creating a final 3D piece, 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 4 art and design lessons from the 3D Design unit, dive into the full secondary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
3D materials as appropriate for your project, theme or centre.
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the keywords to their meanings.
Investigating ideas or topics
Trying new techniques or ideas
Thinking about your work afterward
Someone who creates art
Main idea or message of artwork
Substances used in making art
Q2.Why is making links between artists, materials, and themes important?
Q3.What is a key purpose of experimentation in art?
Q4.Match the step to its description.
Research
Experiment
Reflect
Refine
Decide