Key Stage Two : Art and Design : Reflections : Lesson Five – River View


This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to create a painting of a river view using different techniques to illustrate water reflections. The class can explain how to represent ideas and feelings about a specific location in their artwork.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to create a painting of a river view using different techniques to illustrate water reflections

Learning Objectives

Apply their experience of processes when creating effects in painting. Use paint to communicate observations, ideas and feelings about a place.

Learning Outcomes

I can use a technique to add a reflection to an aspect of a painting. I can use paint to illustrate ideas and feelings about a location.

River View

Teaching sequence to help the children create a painting of a river view using different techniques to illustrate water reflections

River Scenes

Display posters to help the children identify and describe how to represent a river location using different painting techniques

Painting Questions

Table display card to help the children identify and describe how to paint a river scene that includes a reflection of objects seen in the water

River View

Interactive activity to help the children create a painting of a river view using different techniques to illustrate water reflections

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to create a painting of a river view using different techniques to illustrate water reflections

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