Creative Arts- Upper Secondary
Australian Botanic Gardens
Teacher Guided excursion with resources
Top Draw The Gardens is the perfect place to practise your art skills...or is it scientific study?
The downloadable booklet provides support for drawing in your school garden, or the local bush, or onsite in the Gardens. Suitable for a single lesson or for an entire unit of work. The activities combine art and science to give you great cross-curriculum potential.
Teacher Guided excursion with resources
Top Draw The Gardens is the perfect place to practise your art skills...or is it scientific study?
The downloadable booklet provides support for drawing in your school garden, or the local bush, or onsite in the Gardens. Suitable for a single lesson or for an entire unit of work. The activities combine art and science to give you great cross-curriculum potential.
Reconciliation Place
Reconciliation Place is located in the Parliamentary Zone. The site is at the junction of Walter Burley Griffin's Land Axis and the pedestrian cross-axes between the National Library of Australia to the west, and the High Court of Australia to the east. The selection of this location places the reconciliation process physically and symbolically at the heart of Australian democratic and cultural life. The artworks within this site are described here.
Reconciliation Place is located in the Parliamentary Zone. The site is at the junction of Walter Burley Griffin's Land Axis and the pedestrian cross-axes between the National Library of Australia to the west, and the High Court of Australia to the east. The selection of this location places the reconciliation process physically and symbolically at the heart of Australian democratic and cultural life. The artworks within this site are described here.
Canberra Glassworks
Canberra Glassworks have a Discovery Tour -a behind the scenes tour of Canberra Glassworks where students can witness first-hand the beauty of molten glass from the furnace and see glass being cut. Discover what an old power house looks like and how it has been renovated into one of the world’s most state of the art glass facilities. On this tour students will have access to parts of the building the public don’t normally visit as well as have the opportunity to talk to the artists who use the centre. The Discovery Tour-See and Do begins with Discover Tour and then students cross the floor to become artists, learning how to cut and fuse glass while making a coloured, glass coaster of their own design. This is the best way to experience everything that the Glassworks has to offer as well as providing a lasting memory with their own creation and memento to keep. Tours can be tailored for students between K-12.
The Glass & Science Tour gives students an understanding of the scientific properties of glass.
This will include:
Canberra Glassworks have a Discovery Tour -a behind the scenes tour of Canberra Glassworks where students can witness first-hand the beauty of molten glass from the furnace and see glass being cut. Discover what an old power house looks like and how it has been renovated into one of the world’s most state of the art glass facilities. On this tour students will have access to parts of the building the public don’t normally visit as well as have the opportunity to talk to the artists who use the centre. The Discovery Tour-See and Do begins with Discover Tour and then students cross the floor to become artists, learning how to cut and fuse glass while making a coloured, glass coaster of their own design. This is the best way to experience everything that the Glassworks has to offer as well as providing a lasting memory with their own creation and memento to keep. Tours can be tailored for students between K-12.
The Glass & Science Tour gives students an understanding of the scientific properties of glass.
This will include:
- the various physical properties of glass
- the impact of temperature on glass structure
- an outline of the molecular structure and thermodynamics of glass
National Portrait Gallery
Visual art programs investigate ways to interpret portraits looking at aspects of biography, identity and culture. Students look at portraits using different art styles and media learning through discussion, activity and drawing.
Visual art programs investigate ways to interpret portraits looking at aspects of biography, identity and culture. Students look at portraits using different art styles and media learning through discussion, activity and drawing.
National Art Gallery
Drawing tours encourage students to interpret and discuss art through drawing.
Study sessions, conducted by Gallery educators, link the Gallery visit to classroom studies. Study sessions last 2–3 hours and may include tours, workshops, illustrated talks and films. Cost $7.00 per student
Drawing tours encourage students to interpret and discuss art through drawing.
Study sessions, conducted by Gallery educators, link the Gallery visit to classroom studies. Study sessions last 2–3 hours and may include tours, workshops, illustrated talks and films. Cost $7.00 per student
National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive has numerous film clips with teachers notes on topics including architecture, fashion, visual arts, literature, craft, music , dance, design and technology and theatre.
Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources draws on the NFSA collection as we utilise news, current affairs, newsreel, oral histories and broadcast to understand first-hand reporting, recollection, memory, fact, opinion, conjecture and re-creation as they contribute towards us building our own evolving Australian identity.
Indigenous Representation on Screen: Our First Australians’ recognition by, and role in, society has been mirrored in the way they have been depicted as characters on the screen. We look at ten iconic roles for Indigenous Australian on screen and talk about the progression of Australian social and cultural history.
The National Film and Sound Archive has numerous film clips with teachers notes on topics including architecture, fashion, visual arts, literature, craft, music , dance, design and technology and theatre.
Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources draws on the NFSA collection as we utilise news, current affairs, newsreel, oral histories and broadcast to understand first-hand reporting, recollection, memory, fact, opinion, conjecture and re-creation as they contribute towards us building our own evolving Australian identity.
Indigenous Representation on Screen: Our First Australians’ recognition by, and role in, society has been mirrored in the way they have been depicted as characters on the screen. We look at ten iconic roles for Indigenous Australian on screen and talk about the progression of Australian social and cultural history.
Canberra Theatre Centre
The Canberra Theatre Centre is hosting performances of Oedipus Schmoedipus, A Town Named War Boy, Quiet Faith, Sense and Sensibility, Julius Caesar and Fading in 2018. As well as the student participation of Act Up- Student Fringe Festival and Class Clowns in 2018.
The Canberra Theatre Centre is hosting performances of Oedipus Schmoedipus, A Town Named War Boy, Quiet Faith, Sense and Sensibility, Julius Caesar and Fading in 2018. As well as the student participation of Act Up- Student Fringe Festival and Class Clowns in 2018.
