Learning Environments In the Classroom

Take your students on a creative journey, as they explore, learn and apply their skills in the arts. Regardless of your existing skills and knowledge, ARTS:LIVE provides extensive cross-curricular resources and content, with sequential, easy to follow instructions to bring the arts to life in your classroom.

Register for free today, then choose your level of access to hundreds of hours of curriculum aligned teaching content across five art forms!

We’ve previewed all the courses and activities so you can take a look at what’s on offer. Get exploring today and register for free to access everything you need to take creativity to the next level in your classroom!

  • 4 × 45 minute lessons

    Interactive Dance

    Years 9-10
    Explore the ways in which light can contribute an essential element to the development of choreography. See how Australian contemporary dance company, Chunky Move, uses light in innovative ways and then create your own improvisations based on their methods. Through these explorations, you will have the opportunity to develop your technical and expressive skills to communicate your ideas and understanding through dance.
  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Drama and Photography

    Years 9-10
    Photographs are a great medium from which to draw inspiration when creating dramatic work. Use dramatic and thought-provoking images to enhance artistic expression in your performance. Invent your own work using photographs.
  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Radio Drama

    Years 4-10, Secondary
    Head back to the 'golden era' of radio drama. Develop your performance skills using voice and sound and apply this to the style of radio drama. Explore the history of the genre, how radio advertising works and how a program is structured. Discover how your sound can enhance a performance by getting on the airwaves.
  • 8 × 45 minute lessons

    Soundscapes: You Call That Music?

    Years 3-10, Secondary
    Explore the environment around you to identify, collect and record sounds using a digital recording device. Experiment with sounds using audio editing software, and compose a unique digital soundscape. Analyse and reflect upon their own and others’ compositions, and consolidate your aural skills. As you will find, music can be created from some very unexpected sounds.
  • 9 × 45 minute lessons

    Genre-nators

    Years 8-10, Secondary
    Genre-nators introduces you to the way in which film and television genres work to satisfy audience expectations and emotions. Learn how filmmakers manipulate production elements and techniques. Explore the creative process to create a group-devised film.
  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Funfair High

    Years 9-10
    How can art inspire us to reflect on our built environment?  Visual Artist Callum Morton introduces the modernist building at Heide Museum of Modern Art that inspired his artwork Ghost Train, Bulleen (2011). Alter the look of your own familiar school buildings to create a school of the imagination - an architectural theme park.
  • 4 x 45 minute lessons

    Fizzie Dance

    Years 3-6
    Apply your knowledge of sport to create a basic movement phrase and extend it using the elements of dance. Create your own unique Fizzie Dance.
  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    From Dance to Sport

    Years 1-6
    Discover the physical and technical skills used in both dance and sport and compare the similarities.
  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    Shapeshifting Stories

    Years 1-6
    Shapeshifting Stories provides you with a few handy tips and techniques to create compelling and dramatic stories. With the help of superhero show-off Frostica and the trainee warlock Solpadon, you will learn the fundamentals of story building - who, what, how and where.
  • 8 × 45 minute lessons

    Passionate Podcasting

    Years 7-8, Secondary
    Passionate Podcasting introduces you to the form and conventions of podcasting, and shows you how to undertake market research to help you create your own audio podcast for a specific audience.
  • 4 × 45 minute lessons

    Story Building

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-3
    Story Building is an immersive drama activity that requires you to think creatively and bring ideas to life in an imaginary surrounding.
  • 10 × 45 minute lessons

    Shocko Doco

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Shocko Doco introduces you to the concept of video interviewing. You will see the common mistakes that are made and consider ways to fix them. You will then start planning and eventually shooting your own video interview.