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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.

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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Design a Magazine Cover

    Years 3-4
    Examine how magazine covers are designed to attract attention by using colour, fonts, words and images that appeal to their target audience. Plan and lay out your own magazine cover based on a topic of your choice.
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  • 9 x 45 minute lessons

    Visual Storytelling

    Years 2-6
    Visual storytelling is one of the oldest forms of storytelling, enlisting a range of mediums including song, dance, theatre, mime, craft, sign language and visual arts. Explore a range of ways to bring your story to life with the use of visual mediums such as picture storybooks.
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  • 7 × 45 minute lessons

    Create a Photostory

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-6
    Learn how to create stories using photos. Create a Photostory will show you how to change the meaning of a story by rearranging the photo order. You will also learn to plan and make your own photostory using a digital camera.
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  • 8 x 45 minute lessons

    Make a Music Video

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Making a music video is a collaboration, and one of the most famous of recent times is Somebody That I Used to Know. Go behind the scenes and find out how Gotye and filmmaker Natasha Pincus made it happen, and follow their advice to make your own great music video.
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  • 8 x 45 minute lessons

    Own The Stage

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    This resource helps students develop their songwriting ability and a deeper understanding of the role of the music industry in supporting and marketing musicians. Performance footage from the Bush Bands Bash Festival and interviews with contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bands, Rayella and Yipirinya School Band are used as a stimulus to explore different cultural perspectives.
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  • 6 x 45 minute lessons

    Get Your Music Out There

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    How do you get your music heard? Find out how to become part of the music industry from those inside it. Two contemporary performers and a record label owner guide you through ways to market yourself and find an audience.
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  • 8 x 45 minute lessons

    Write Way to the Top

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Two contemporary Australian songwriters, Helen Croome (aka Gossling) and Henry Wagons, share their ideas on inspiration, meaning and how to finish that song! Let them inspire you to write your own song and perform it.
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  • 8 x 45 minute lessons

    A New World Order

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Nature documentary meets post-apocalypse sci-fi in the work of media artist Hayden Fowler. His degree in biology intersects with his art practice around ideas of humanity and nature, using video photography, installation and performance.
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  • 5 x 45 minute lessons

    Shifting the Scale

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    The work of Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd interrogates Australia's colonial narrative. Explore the theme of appropriation and use the conventions of social media to shape artworks that offer alternative perspectives. Acknowledge your own presence within a grand narrative.
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  • 12 x 45 minute lessons

    How to Play the Guitar

    Years 3-10, Secondary
    Get your groove on and play guitar like a pro. Learn the basics - from stringing the guitar through to playing the blues.
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  • 13 x 45 minute lessons

    How to Play the Drums

    Years 3-10, Secondary
    Grab your sticks and hit it! Master the basics of drumming, from setting up the kit to playing your own beat with fills.
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  • 2 x 45 minute lessons

    Painting the Music

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-6
    Combine visual and performing art by using music to inspire what you draw and paint. Listen to a music track and paint how and what you are feeling or what images it evokes. Explore your creativity, sharpen your listening skills and understand the links between feelings, ideas and artwork.
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