These lessons are aimed towards students at the Stage 2 (Years 3-4) level of education.

In each of the lessons below, you will find links to download each PDF lesson plan with its associated resources as a complete pack (click on ‘Download Full Lesson Plan’), or just the individual resources themselves (under ‘Lesson Resources’).

Lesson Overview

Throughout this lesson, students will create an artwork that doubles as a sensory tool. Students will produce a “Liquid Calm Jar” that can be used to watch, to listen to, and as a timer to count down. This sensory tool is great to help with calming, grounding and distraction.

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Lesson Outcomes

A student will learn to:

  • develop their artistic intentions in art making and consider how these affect the look of the work, its details and an audience’s response
  • select and explore different aspects of subject matter in particular ways in their making of artworks
  • interpret the meaning of artworks by taking into account relationships between the artwork, the world and the artist
  • recognise and practise strategies that nurture mental health and wellbeing
  • identify problem situations in the playground and classroom and suggest ways to improve their environment.

Lesson Resources

  1. Stage-2-Liquid-Calm-Jar-Teacher-Guide.pdf
  2. Stage-2-Learning-Intentions.pdf
  3. Stage-2-Timed-Task-Cards.pdf
  4. Stage-2-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit.pdf
  5. Stage-2-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet.pdf
  6. Stage-2-An-Artist.pdf
  7. Stage-2-Liquid-Calm-Jar-Planning-Sheet.pdf
  8. Stage-2-Liquid-Calm-Jar-Instructions.pdf
  9. Stage-2-Calm-Down-Jar-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
  10. Stage-2-Differentiated-Jar-Reflection-Sheet.pdf

Lesson Overview

Throughout this lesson, students will create an artwork that doubles as a sensory tool. Students will produce a “Chatterbox” that can be used to refocus attention and uses repetitive actions to create calm. These chatterboxes are designed to help children self-regulate, whilst learning about their senses and fostering positive self-talk.

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Lesson Outcomes

A student will learn to:

● develop their artistic intentions in art making and consider how these affect the look of the work, its details and an audience’s response
● select and explore different aspects of subject matter in particular ways in their making of artworks
● interpret the meaning of artworks by taking into account relationships between the artwork, the world and the artist
● recognise and practise strategies that nurture mental health and wellbeing
● identify problem situations in the playground and classroom and suggest ways to improve their environment.

A student will learn about:

● how artists, including themselves, have intentions that affect the look of the work and its details
● how artists think about what an audience may think about their work when they make art.

Lesson Resources

  1. Stage-2-Learning-Intentions.pdf
  2. Stage-2-Timed-Task-Cards.pdf
  3. Stage-2-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit.pdf
  4. Stage-2-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet.pdf
  5. Stage-2-An-Artist.pdf
  6. Stage-2-Chatterbox-Planning-Sheet.pdf
  7. Stage-2-Chatterbox-Instructions.pdf
  8. Stage-2-Chatterbox-Designs.pdf
  9. Stage-2-Chatterbox-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
  10. Stage-2-Chatterbox-Teacher-Guide.pdf
  11. Stage-2-Differentiated-Chatterbox-Reflection-Sheet.pdf