Invertebrate art
Creative arts and science and technology
Students explore the fascinating world of invertebrates through science and art. Using hands-on investigation and creative expression, they observe, collect, and represent the tiny creatures that live all around us.
Students use fieldwork methods such as leaf litter surveys and tree shakes to discover invertebrates in their school grounds. Back in the classroom, they examine their finds up close using magnifying lenses and digital microscopes, identifying species with ID sheets.
Inspired by their discoveries, students create a series of artworks in a variety of forms, which may include clay and natural material sculptures, detailed drawings, paintings, scratch art, and digital illustrations on iPads.
Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2024)
Visual Arts
Outcome
- makes artworks using materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas in artworks CA1-VIS-01
Content
Making: Artists use materials and techniques to represent subject matter and ideas in artworks
- Make artworks to represent subject matter and ideas about their world in realistic, imaginative or expressive ways
- Mould clay or modelling materials to create 3D sculptural forms, such as pots or standing forms
- Create 3D sculptural forms using natural, sustainable or manufactured materials, exploring construction techniques
Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Investigations of changes provide knowledge and understanding
Outcome
- measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky ST1-SCI-01
Content
Living things change over time
- Recognise that data can be collected through observation, testing and research, and that it can be represented as descriptions, diagrams, graphs, images and tables
Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus (2024)
Visual Arts
Outcome
- makes artworks using art forms to represent subject matter and ideas, and describes ways artists convey ideas about their world to audiences through artworks CA2-VIS-01
Content
Making: Artists represent their world through subject matter and ideas in artworks
- Represent subject matter and ideas in artworks, making choices based on own interpretations of the world
- Investigate the properties of materials and experiment with techniques to represent ideas through the construction of 3D sculptural forms
Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)
Physical and living systems depend on energy
Outcome
- uses information to investigate the solar system and the effects of energy on living, physical and geological systems ST2-SCI-01
Content
Living things depend on energy and materials to survive
- Observe and describe living and non-living things in a habitat