Communicate and Exhibit - Years 3-4 Visual Arts Unit Plan

Help Years 3-4 students make an original artwork for a chosen audience, test and refine purposeful visual choices, and explain an informal exhibition using evidence from their process.

Communicate and Exhibit guides students from an idea and two manageable trials to making, specific refinement, display decisions and a short reflective conference. Teaching examples invite reasoning rather than imitation. The cooperative Curator's Choice game rehearses noticing, respectful questioning, comparison and explanation. Open folios capture decisions while the actual artwork is made on suitable art paper.

What's included

Presentations: Communicate and Exhibit - Lessons 1-10

Teacher guide and ten lesson plans

Display: Key Ideas

Display: How We Explain Our Evidence

Activity: Case and Source Cards (two pages, eight fictional cases)

Game: Curator's Choice (rules, six-stop board, eight challenge cards)

Folio 1: Audience and idea

Folio 2: Test visual choices

Folio 3: Plan the artwork

Folio 4: Create the work

Folio 5: Refine a specific issue

Folio 6: Display decisions

Folio 7: Exhibit and explain

Folio 8: Curatorial reflection

Folio 9: Compare two display choices - Optional

Folio 10: A pop-up audience session - Optional

Quiz: Communicate and Exhibit

Assessment: Evidence Planner and Evidence Conference

Rubric: Communicate and Exhibit

What's included

• 36-page Unit Plan PDF: one contents page, 15 teacher-guide/lesson-plan pages and 20 resource pages.
• Ten separate editable lesson PowerPoints, 13 slides each (130 lesson slides in total).
• Editable 24-slide quiz PowerPoint with ten questions, each followed by an explicit answer/explanation slide.
• Two full-colour teaching displays, eight fictional case cards over two pages, and a three-page cooperative game.
• Ten black-and-white open art-process folios: eight core and two clearly optional.
• Two assessment pages and a four-dimension, three-anchor teacher rubric.
• 190-page preview PDF: Unit Plan, lessons 1-10 in order, then the quiz.
• Separate contents JPEG.

Answer guidance: these folios record students' own artwork and decisions, so there is no single correct drawing. Lesson plans and game teacher notes provide example reasoning and observation criteria. The quiz includes explicit explanations. Practical making and display evidence, rather than quiz scores alone, support assessment.