Advance Australia Fair Lesson ideas for Visual arts, Dance, Drama, Music

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 2 Give each group one line of the song and have them illustrate it to show their understanding of the line. Display these across the room Photograph them and create a Powerpoint of the song using childrens artworks Visual Arts Our home is girt by sea

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Integrating the Arts across THEMES 26 MUSIC* In groups, add instruments (found and body percussion) to describe each line of each verse Add different dynamic levels for each line

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 27 MUSIC Australians, all, let us rejoice, For we are young and free! Weve golden soil and wealth for toil Our home is girt by sea. Our land abounds with natures gifts Of beauty, rich and rare. In historys page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair!

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 28 Drama* Look at a variety of visual representations of the lines from Advance Australia Fair, or use your own artwork. In groups, use one line as a stimulus for improvisation, eg. Home is girt by sea Think about: –What is happening –Why it is happening –Who is involved –What are they feeling –Why they are acting this way –How the improvisation starts, climaxes and ends, etc

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 29 DRAMA: Natural/Built Environments* Create a group sculpture depicting an Australian natural scene or built icon. –Have other children guess what it is.

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 30 MUSIC : Brainstorm words, then create a new verse to reflect our BUILT Environments

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 31 MUSIC : Creating a new Verse to reflect our BUILT Environments Weve built our nation brick by brick, Our buildings stand so fine! Our bridges, towers and monuments, Our heritage sublime! Look east and west and north and south, Oer landscapes rich or bare, Weve made our mark on historys page, Advance, Australia Fair!

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 32 MUSIC: Brainstorming words and pictures for NATURAL Environments

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Integrating the Arts across THEMES 34 MUSIC: Rhythm Rap about NATURAL Environments Deserts, farmlands, mountains high, Rainforest, Uluru, rivers dry, Waterfalls, billabongs, golden sand, All together make up this land. Add OSTINATO: Natural Australia Add a melody using the notes C, D, E, G A on a xylophone. MUSIC: Rhythm Rap about NATURAL Environments Deserts, farmlands, mountains high, Rainforest, Uluru, rivers dry, Waterfalls, billabongs, golden sand, All together make up this land. Add OSTINATO: Natural Australia Add a melody using the notes C, D, E, G A on a xylophone.

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 35 Visual Arts After a visit to a rainforest or other natural environment, have children develop a poster about what they have learned; include a scientific description and a poem Repeat this activity with a built environment

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Integrating the Arts across THEMES 37 Drama Examine Jeannie bakers book: Window –One scene is depicted through a window, changing over time, shown every 2 years in the childs life –Natural environment moving to Built environment

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 38 Drama Take the Advance Australia Fair scene you have improvised in the previous lesson, and repeat it as though it was 50 years previously, then 50 years in the future. Hot seating: ask individual characters questions about: Who? What? Where? Why? How? etc.

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Integrating the Arts across THEMES 41 Dance* Look at a variety of photos of natural and built environments In groups, create a series of movements to show a natural environment using the bodies of each person in the group Then move slowly to show the beginning of a built environment until the whole group body sculpture depicts a build environment. Repeat these series of movements to percussion instruments or music with a strong beat.

Integrating the Arts across THEMES 42 Drama/ Visual Arts / HSIE Extension: Create a puppet play based on an environmental theme, eg: –Living on the farm / living in the city –Grandparents talking to grandchildren about the changes they have seen in their neighbourhood, etc. –Woodchips or forests? –Reduce, recycle, reuse –Shopping Centre or Parkland? –The destruction of the rainforest

Advance Australia Fair For further information, see Chapter 9 in MMADD: About the Arts: An introduction to Primary Arts Education by Deirdre Russell-Bowie, published by Pearson Education Australia