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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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  • 6 × 45 minute lessons

    Sustain Your Art

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Meet Ash Keating, a visual artist interested in environmental problems facing society. Discover how he creates large-scale installations from commercial and industrial waste materials and create your own art to inspire and challenge a wider audience to think about sustainability.
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  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    Keepsake

    Years 1-6
    How do artists express their feelings and memories through sculpture? Look at and respond to Sweeney's Keepsake (1987) by Les Kossatz, then make your own sculpture based on your feelings and memories. Sculptor Lucy Irvine will show you a method that uses a variety of materials and processes.
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  • 3 x 45 minute lessons

    Family Tides

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Meet Esme Timbery, an elder of the La Perouse Aboriginal community. Find out how her art-making is both contemporary and a celebration of traditional practice. Use social-media conventions as the context for your own artwork as you make and share a journey of discovery.
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  • 2 x 45 minute lessons

    Hand Drawings

    Years 1-6
    Hands have been used in artworks since humans first began to paint and draw, and remain a powerful symbol found in visual art today. To give you a taste of Visual Arts, this simple activity uses your hands as the subject of the artwork.
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  • 4–5 × 45 minute lessons

    Portray Yourself

    Years 2-8, Secondary
    Explore the relationships between subject, artist and viewer through portraiture. Investigate image, identity and representation by exploring some significant portraits in the National Gallery of Victoria's collection.
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  • 9 x 45 minute lessons

    Site-Specific Work

    Years 7-8, Secondary
    Explore spaces around you to spark your drama ideas. Develop the playbuilding skills and knowledge to put on a site-specific performance.
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  • 5 x 45 minute lessons

    Rock Out on the Ukulele

    Years 3-6
    This is the third course in the Ukulele series. Put your ukulele skills to the work and make your ukulele sing. It includes more chords, strumming patterns and a range of songs to learn.
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  • 5 x 45 minute lessons

    Keep Playing the Ukulele

    Years 3-6
    This is the second course in the Ukulele series. Get to know your ukulele even better and make it strum. It includes more chords and different strumming patterns.
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  • 6 x 45 minute lessons

    PlayAir

    Years 3-8, Secondary
    Are you ready to rock?! Learn how to play air guitar like a pro! PlayAir is a fun and engaging series of lessons that will inspire you to start your own Air Band by teaching you how to play air instruments and produce a video clip for your air band.
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  • 5 x 45 minute lessons

    Sustainable Songs

    Years 1-6
    We’ve all played with our food, but when was the last time you actually played your food? Sustainable Songs is a fun and imaginative music lesson series that encourages children to make instruments from fruit and vegetables!
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  • 6 x 45 minute lessons

    From Page to Stage

    Years 1-6
    Turn a book into a performance and use Drama to support comprehension. This resource is based on the book Go Home, Cheeky Animals! but you can substitute with any narrative text you prefer.
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Create an Alphabet Dance

    Years 1-8, Secondary
    Create An Alphabet Dance is the second component to creating your own version of the dance. Inventing transition moves and forming simple choruses helps to combine all the elements of the dance. Remembering all the moves is a workout for both your memory and your body!
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