Session Outline •You may want to give the children free reign on choosing their area for building their sculpture. Or, you may predetermine the best area to build.

• Split children into groups depending on numbers. 4 per group would probably be a maximum, else you find some children become disengaged.

• If possible, allow the children to collect their own natural resources ready to build their sculpture. Encourage them to look at the resources and think of possible structure or design they could try. Talk about how their design may follow a particular pattern or theme, or may be entirely abstract. Encourage the children to plan their ideas first and how they could resolve problems if children in their group have different ideas to them so that it is fair.

• If possible, provide each group with some clay as this may make building a 3D sculpture easier.

• Explain how long the children have got and keep giving time updates to prevent them from not finishing. Give them time to adapt, improve and talk about their designs and also to look at other group’s sculptures.

Differentiation: HA- Can they describe and name the natural materials they have used? Can they create an imaginative piece of art and explain their design? LA- Prompts for ideas and help working together. Extension:

Can you use your artwork for the basis of a simple story?

Session Objectives Children will be able to work in small groups to create an abstract sculpture with natural materials Resources Lots of different different shapes, sizes and colours of natural materials, such as pine cones, sticks, shells, pebbles, branches and leaves. You could provide clay to enable the children to build 3D sculptures more easily. Key Vocabulary Shapes, size, colour, shade, pattern, 2D, 3D. Risk Assessments Generic Site RA; Sticks RA.

Curriculum Links

Art: (KS1) Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products; To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.

Maths: (Y1) Recognise and name common 3D shapes; (Y2) Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences.

Design and Technology: (KS1) Select from and use a wide range of materials and components according to their characteristics; Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable

Science: Science: (Y1) Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees; Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials. (Y2) Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats; Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials; Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

Learning Outcomes LA - Children will be able to work in a group to create a sculpture from natural

materials.

MA - Children will be able to work co-operatively in a group to create an imaginative sculpture from natural

materials.

HA - Children will be able to work co-operatively in a group to create an imaginative sculpture from natural

materials. They have used a variety of techniques, materials and representations

and evaluated/ adapted their work as they went along.

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