YEAR LEVEL:

Year 8
TOPIC:
Inquiry Unit Where do we draw
inspiration from when creating?
LEARNING INTENTION:
We are learning about what inspires people and ultimately; what
inspires us into producing a creative project that represents who we are.
AusVELS:
Art
Creating and making:
maintain a record of the creating and making of their arts works and explain
their decisions about how they present art works for specific purposes and
audiences.

English
Reading and Viewing
Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different
layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and
parody (ACELA1542)

Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or
images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548)

Explore the interconnectedness of Country and Place, People, Identity and
Culture in texts including those by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors
(ACELT1806)

Writing
Experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of
texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new
texts (ACELT1768)


Intercultural Understanding

Communicate across cultures:
Explore ways that culture shapes the use of language in a wide range of
contexts.

Reflect on intercultural experiences
Reflect critically on the representation of various cultural groups in texts and
the media and how they respond.

Thinking Processes
Creativity:
With teacher support, application of creative thinking strategies for a variety of
purposes and problems, and in a range of contexts
MATERIALS:
Workbook and writing materials

Laptop/ ipad

Projector and speakers to play the video
for the students.




Introduction: Body of Lesson: Conclusion:
Students will be introduced
to the video What Inspires
You, at the beginning of the
lesson and the lesson will
then build up from there.
Understanding Inspiration

Watch the YouTube video on What Inspires You
showing many designers stating what inspires them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIJqSO1JtY

Discuss as a class what they found interesting about
Students will be asked
to reflect on the
lesson in their
portfolio of learning.
- What inspires you?
- What have you
learnt about yourself?
the video.
Get students to answer the following questions:
- What is inspiration?
- Where and how do you find inspiration?
- How do you use inspiration?
- What inspires you?

Perhaps it would be a good idea to talk about what
influences yourself as a creative practitioner, so that
they feel more comfortable exploring these ideas with
the class and themselves.
Make sure students understand the importance of
finding inspiration when creating.
- What are your
creative ideas?
- How can you bring
these ideas into
fruition?