Tate Tools Preview
Welcome to a preview of Tate Tools Module 1 - Looking At and Thinking About Art - a teaching resource for pupils at Key Stages 2&3 of the National Curriculum for England and Wales.
This module asks students to look at and discuss different art media and genre. It asks them to think about what art is and what it is not.
All Tate Tools modules are PowerPoint presentations ready for use with an interactive whiteboard, computer projector or on a standard display. They include:
- video conversations with a curator, educators and children
- speakers notes to help you prepare a lesson
- Investigation Sheets to help students take notes and consolidate their thinking
- two puzzles and games to test knowledge and inspire discussion
Most importantly, the module will help you bring alive key curriculum points by using the vast resources of the Tate’s collections and expertise
Here are a just a few sample slides.
What is art?
The opening slide is a starting point to discuss the students’ ideas about what is and isn’t art. The accompanying investigation sheet asks the class, in pairs, to look at the two images and note down their responses.
What do I think?
Having considered what is and isn’t art, students are asked to explore their personal responses to a further set of art works.
What can I see?
After exploring their own responses to art works, students consider the type, colour, effects, scale, shapes, space, composition etc.
What is art? Have I changed my mind?
Towards the end of the presentation the group is encouraged to look back at their notes from earlier activities and work together to establish what art is, agreeing on a definition, with each student selecting the art work that has meant the most to them and sharing their reasons with the rest of the group
Art Puzzle
The Art Puzzle is an interactive classroom activity that asks students a series of questions relating to an artwork of the Cholmondeley Family. Students are asked to consider what type of art work it is, the size and style, when and how it was made and the story it tells.Finally students are asked to find a series of patterns that are contained within the art work and then spot the differences between the two ladies and babies depicted.
The full module consists of around 25 slides and includes two video clips.
