Artwise: Visual Arts 7 - 10 for the Australian Curriculum & eBookPLUS

Artwise Visual Arts 7–10 for the Australian Curriculum offers integrated units within an overall thematic framework, providing a balance between the strands of Making and Responding in the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. This balance is achieved by presenting a range of Making tasks that use step-by-step instructions to guide students through their own creative process. Sample student works and a wide range of works and practices from recognised artists allow students to investigate art-making skills, techniques and processes to find their own inspiration. The Responding tasks allow students to describe and analyse the practices and viewpoints offered by the art works, using the visual language of representation and visual devices.

Key features

• Addresses the Visual Arts subject within the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
• Delivers a flexible approach to meet the needs of students across the year bands of 7–8 and 9–10
• Begins with an introductory chapter that covers safety and teaches basic art techniques and skills
• Presents graded and carefully sequenced units that integrate Making and Responding strands
• Provides step-by-step instructions for students to create their own art work, as well as providing many student samples
• Presents a wide range of artists and their practices across two-, three- and four-dimensional forms, and traditional, contemporary, ATSI and Asian sources.

Next generation teaching and learning

Artwise Visual Arts 7–10 for the Australian Curriculum features eBookPLUS — an electronic version of the textbook and a complementary set of targeted digital resources. These flexible and engaging ICT activities are available online at the jacarandaPLUS website (www.jacplus.com.au).

eBookPLUS

Your eBookPLUS includes:

• an electronic version of the textbook
• eLessons that present video interviews with artists and offer accompanying worksheets
• self-reflection sheets for Making tasks found in the textbook
• weblinks to complementary artists and art works.

eGuidePLUS

eGuidePLUS provides teachers with:

• the full version of the student eBookPLUS
• a grid showing the coverage of Visual Arts within the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
• notes on risk assessment for the Visual Arts classroom
• worksheets for weblinked videos.