- Year 10
Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork
I can develop my theme by experimenting with my own photos and drawings
- Year 10
Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork
I can develop my theme by experimenting with my own photos and drawings
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.
These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Artists may select from existing first-hand resources to develop and explore new creative outcomes.
- Photos can be developed in ways, such as collage, stitching, drawing, or digital editing, to create new visual ideas.
- Experimenting with various materials and techniques helps develop drawings with richer textures and deeper expression.
Keywords
Experiment - to try out new ideas, materials, or techniques
Media - the materials and tools used to create artwork
Develop - to build on your initial ideas by exploring, refining and pushing them further
Common misconception
Once a photo or drawing is finished, it can’t be changed or developed further.
A finished photo or drawing is just a starting point—artists often rework, edit, layer, or translate their images into new forms using different media to explore deeper meaning or fresh creative directions.
To help you plan your year 10 art and design lesson on: Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork, 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: Personal response: appropriate resources and creating artwork, 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 Photography: identity and belonging unit, dive into the full secondary art and design curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Digital editing platforms, paint, collage materials, pencil crayons, oil pastels, scissors, fineliners, marker pens.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
