Year 2 - Art and design
Create a history map
Art that travels: stories, land and journeys
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Unit Summary
Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a layered map using pastel, collage and paint.
Key Notes
- Maps can tell personal stories and histories of a continent.
- Artists might show that borders can be changed.
- Covering or layering materials can reflect change, erasure or memory.
Vocabulary To Learn
- map: a drawing that shows where places are
- continent: a very large area of land on Earth, like Africa
- border: a line on a map that shows where places stop or start
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Africa is one country.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Maps can tell personal stories and histories of a continent. Artists might show that borders can be changed.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'map'
a drawing that shows where places are.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Africa is one country. Correction: Africa is a continent made up of many different countries and cultures, past and present. Different maps from different times can show this.
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