ART · Week 3 · BUILD · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore

Plan: This Is Me

Idea · Materials · Technique

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Today is a hands-on lesson — we learn by doing.

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Sort the plan parts — idea, materials or technique?

Tap a card, then tap where it belongs. Have a go — wrong answers are welcome here.

While you wait: tell your partner one colour, texture or object that feels like YOU.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To plan my identity artwork and choose my materials.

✓ I can pick images, words and textures that feel like me.

✓ I can complete a plan: what I’ll make, materials, technique.

✓ I can say one thing my piece will show about me.

Success criteria: By the end you will have chosen your “this is me” cards, completed a picture-supported plan page — idea, materials, and the textures, patterns and colours that mean something to you — and told the TA one thing your piece will say. The plan goes in your Explore log (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

Going for Grow: name the Week 2 skill your plan uses — a plan that spends a levelled-up skill is a strong plan.

STARTER · talk task

What makes you YOU?

With your partner: if someone had to guess things about you from three objects, which three would you choose? Interests, places, colours, textures — anything counts, and you choose how much to share.

Sentence stems:
“People could tell I ___ from…”
“A colour that feels like me is…”
“I’d keep ___ private, and that’s fine.”

I DO · teacher explains

A plan is three choices, made on purpose

💡 The idea

What is your piece ABOUT? One honest idea beats five vague ones — your team, your music, your calm place, your dog.

🧵 The materials

Cardboard, foil, wool, clay, paper, paint, screen — chosen because they FIT the idea. Rough idea? Rough textures. Calm idea? Smooth and cool.

🎨 The technique

ONE technique from your tasters — ideally the one you levelled up in Week 2. A plan that uses a practised skill is a plan that works.

🔣 Symbols

A symbol is a thing that STANDS FOR something — a boot for football, a wave for calm. One good symbol can carry a whole piece.

Misconception: ~~“A plan locks you in — you can’t change it later.”~~ A plan is a springboard, not a cage. Artists change plans constantly — the plan’s only job is to get you STARTED with materials in your hands next week.

WE DO · together on the board

Sort the plan parts — IDEA, MATERIALS or TECHNIQUE?

HANDS-ON · the main event

Build your plan 📋

Ground rule (60 seconds): your piece shares exactly as much of you as you choose — interests count fully, and nobody has to put private things in art.

Station 1 · THIS IS ME CARDS

From the card table, pick THREE image, word or texture cards that feel like you. Trust the quick pull — the cards you reach for first usually know.

Station 2 · THE PLAN PAGE

Complete the picture-supported plan: what I’ll make / materials / the textures, patterns and colours that mean something to me. Scribing counts; choices are yours.

Station 3 · TELL ONE THING

Tell the TA one thing your piece will say about you. “It shows I love the beach” is a complete answer.

Going for Grow: add the skill line: “my plan uses my levelled-up skill of ___” — connecting Week 2 to Week 4.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log · plan page · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

Your plan page is the evidence — TA photographs it into the log. Then complete (scribing counts):

My name:

My piece will be about:

Materials and technique I chose:

Skills I used today (tick with your TA): Creativity · Planning · Independence

Feedback loop: your teacher will deep-mark one part of this in dark green and draw a Yellow Box. Next lesson you respond inside it in a coloured pen of your choice.

EXIT TICKET

Show what you know

1. A plan’s three parts are…

2. A symbol is…

3. If you change your plan next week…