ART · Week 6 · GROW · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore → Bronze

Artist Research

Two facts · One opinion

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

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Fact, opinion — or feeling?

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

While you wait: three artworks on screen — pick yours, and find one WORD for why.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To find out about one artist and record two facts and one opinion.

✓ I can tell facts, opinions and feelings apart.

✓ I can research one artist and record two facts.

✓ I can give one opinion of my own about their work.

Success criteria: By the end you will have researched an artist together, chosen your own from the picture-supported menu — a light artist and an installation artist included — and completed the log page: two facts, one opinion, in your own words (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

GCSE Stretch: back your opinion with evidence from a specific work: “I rate them because in ___ they…”

STARTER · talk task

Which one speaks to you — and can you say why?

Three artworks, three long looks. Pick the one that pulls you back. Now the Grow challenge: turn the pull into a WHY — a colour, a scale, a feeling it triggers. One word will do; a sentence is better.

Sentence stems:
“It pulls me because…”
“The ___ does something to me…”
“I’d hang it in ___ because…”

I DO · teacher explains

Facts, opinions, feelings — three different tools

📌 Facts

Checkable: born where, works in what, made which piece. Two facts anchor your research page in reality.

💬 Opinions

A judgement you can argue: “her symbols work harder than her colours”. Opinions need a because — that’s what makes them yours and not just noise.

❤️ Feelings

What the work does inside you. Can’t be wrong, don’t need defending — but naming them precisely is a skill.

📓 The page

Two facts + one opinion, your own words, into the log. Videos and big images beat dense text — research with your eyes.

Misconception: ~~“An opinion is just a feeling said confidently.”~~ A feeling lives in you and needs no defence; an opinion is a judgement about the WORK and earns its place with a because. Knowing which you’re holding is the research skill.

WE DO · together on the board

Sort the responses — FACT, OPINION or FEELING?

HANDS-ON · the main event

Meet your artist 🖼️

Ground rule (60 seconds): honest and respectful — “not for me, because…” is a legal opinion; “that’s rubbish” with no because is just noise.

Station 1 · WATCH & LOOK

Class research: short video, big images, pauses. Call facts as you spot them; the board collects the class’s fact-bank.

Station 2 · CHOOSE & LOG

Your artist from the menu — light and installation artists included. Two facts + one opinion into the log frame, your own words; ideas voiced first, key words your hand.

Station 3 · SAY IT & RESPOND

Deliver your opinion with its because to a partner or the TA — opinions said aloud get stronger. Then close the loop: after hearing your partner’s artist, finish the line “what I now think…” — said or scribed, into the log.

GCSE Stretch: evidence the opinion from a named work: “I rate them because in ___ they ___” — that’s a review sentence, arriving a term early.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log (toward Bronze) · artist research page · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

Your research page is the evidence — two facts, one opinion, own words (voiced-first counts, key words your hand):

My name:

My artist and two facts:

My opinion, with its because:

Skills I used today (tick with your TA): Ability to learn · Literacy · Communication

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. “She is overrated” is…

2. “It makes me feel brave” is…

3. This week’s page needs…