Mini-Unit Three Educating students to see critically and think creatively are important aspects of the visual art curriculum. Just as teachers provide experiences to empower students through written and spoken language, so teachers should provide students with experiences to help them interpret visual information and express themselves using the language of visual art. Students should be encouraged to observe details in their surroundings, explore the relationships between objects and their environment, search for meaning in visual images, and create their own artistic expressions through a variety of experiences. The environment provides a wealth of visual information for students to explore. Students can continuously add to their repertoire of images, lines, colours, textures, shapes, forms and patterns by observing and noting the vast amount of information in the world around them.
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Take a field trip to observe people in busy centres. Write a poem and illustrate it. Pay attention to overlapping, foreground, middleground and background when suggesting space in a drawing. View Behind the Scenes with David Hockney to understand ways artists create the illusion of space on a flat surface. Downtown by Oliver and Boyd Teacher Note Activities relating to the elements of art and the principles of design are best taught within meaningful a context.