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Understanding Our Environments

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Understanding Our Environments

Natural and built environments illustration

🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To

Today we are learning to:

• Understand and distinguish between built and natural environments

• Analyse artworks depicting environments using visual art terminology

• Reflect on and connect personal experiences to environments

🌍 Part 1: Understanding Environments

1. What is an environment? Write your own definition:
2. Circle the examples that are NATURAL environments:

Forest

Shopping centre

Beach

City street

Mountain range

School playground

3. List three characteristics that make a built environment different from a natural environment:

a) _________________________________________________

b) _________________________________________________

c) _________________________________________________

4. Why do you think artists choose to depict environments in their artworks?

🎨 Part 2: Artwork Analysis & Personal Reflection

5. Choose ONE artwork shown in class today. Describe what you see using visual arts terminology:

Artwork title/description: _________________________________

Elements observed (line, colour, texture, shape):

Materials/techniques used: ____________________________

Mood or feeling created: _______________________________

6. Think about your own experiences with environments. Describe one natural and one built environment that is meaningful to you:

Natural environment: ___________________________________

Why is it meaningful? ____________________________________

Built environment: ____________________________________

Why is it meaningful? ____________________________________

7. Extension Activity: If you were to create an artwork about an environment important to you, what materials or techniques would you use and why?
8. Exit Ticket: Complete these sentences:

One new thing I learned today: _____________________________________

One question I still have: ________________________________________

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