Curriculum links
Vision
- Connected – students will share ideas and make connections between their own world and the subject matter, themes, and practices of the artists featured in the exhibition.
- Lifelong learners – students will recognise that museums and galleries are part of the greater learning environment.
Principles
- Learning to learn – by investigating artworks in the Monet and the Impressionists exhibition, and by applying skills of interpretation and review, students will develop critical and creative thinking skills.
- Coherence – students will make links to other curriculum areas (particularly English and Social Sciences) through studying artists' lives and communicating to other students about artworks.
Values
- Excellence – students are encouraged to produce high-quality labels for publication online.
- Innovation, inquiry and curiosity – students are encouraged to think critically, creatively and reflectively through by examining artist's techniques when digitally creating their own impressionised image
Key competencies
- Thinking – students will critically analyse visual and written information about selected artworks.
- Participating and contributing – students respond to focus questions and produce label text for selected works, sharing their own ideas that can be viewed in the wider learning community.
Focus learning area
- The Arts: Visual Arts
Strands
- UC – Understanding the Arts in Context
- CI – Communicating and Interpreting
Additional learning areas
- English – Listening, Reading, and Viewing
- English – Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
- Social Studies – Place and Environment
- Technology – Technological knowledge and Understanding.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- Recognise the impact the work of 19th-century French Impressionist artists made in art history.
- Examine the stylistic techniques of Impressionism, through digitally 'Impressionising' an image.
- Identify 2–4 artists and their works featured in the exhibition.
- Understand the function and purpose of artwork labels.
- Create at least one label for one of the works featured in this mini-site.