KS3 Sketchbook skills
Explore the incredible plants at Kew and record them in sketchbooks.
Overview
For centuries, artists have used plants as inspiration.
In this session pupils will explore the huge range of plants in the Gardens, look at shape and texture, and record observations in their sketchbooks.
Through exploring natural forms, pupils will develop techniques for drawing real-life objects.
Learning Outcomes
Pupils will be able to:
- Develop their enquiry skills through close observation and drawing
- Develop their sketchbook skills through drawing directly from nature
- Develop their creative response to natural forms
- Develop creative ideas that they can expand upon back in the classroom
- Understand how plants have adapted to their environment.
Keywords:
Temperate, endangered, form, line drawing, tone, observation, detail, shape, texture, plant adaptation, seed dispersal
Curriculum Links
Art and Design
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
- To use a range of techniques to record their observations in sketchbooks, journals and other media as a basis for exploring their ideas.
- To use a range of techniques and media, including painting.
- To analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.
Science: Biology
Reproduction
- Reproduction in plants, including flower structure, wind and insect pollination, fertilisation, seed and fruit formation and dispersal, including quantitative investigation of some dispersal mechanisms.
Plants
- Identify and describe the functions and different parts of flowering plants - roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers, and explore requirements for life.
Genetics and Evolution
- Differences between species.
Light
- Recognise that they need light in order to see things and find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
Working scientifically
- Pay attention to objectivity and concern for accuracy, precision, repeatability and reproducibility.
- Making systematic and careful observations, gathering recording and classifying, identifying differences, similarities and changes.