These lessons are aimed towards students at the Stage 3 (Years 5-6) 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 “Weighted Sock Buddy” that can be held, rested in someone’s lap or placed on the shoulders, cuddled or smelled. This sensory tool is great to use for focus, calming and grounding.

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Lesson Outcomes

A student will learn to:

  • think about their art-making as a kind of social practice that employs both their own resources and their understanding of art
  • interpret subject matter which is of local interest in particular ways in their making of artworks
  • organise and assemble materials in various ways in the making of artworks suited to particular purposes and think about the meaning of their decisions.

A student will learn about:

  • how artists engage in a form of social practice in making art and contribute to the field of the visual arts
  • a range of concepts and subject matter that is of interest to the art world and community
  • how concepts and materials are thought about, organised and assembled, and serve different ends in artworks that they and others make

how artworks can be subject to different interpretations by artists and audiences.

Lesson Resources

  1. Stage-3-Weighted-Sock-Buddy-Teacher-Guide.pdf
  2. Stage-3-Learning-Intentions.pdf
  3. Stage-3-Card-Tower-Challenge.pdf
  4. Stage-3-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit.pdf
  5. Stage-3-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet.pdf
  6. Stage-3-An-Artist.pdf
  7. Stage-3-Weighted-Sock-Buddy-Planning-Sheet.pdf
  8. Stage-3-Weighted-Sock-Buddy-Instructions.pdf
  9. Stage-3-Weighted-Sock-Buddy-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
  10. Stage-3-Differentiated-Weighted-Sock-Buddy-Reflection-Sheet.pdf

Lesson Overview

Throughout this lesson, students will create an artwork that doubles as a sensory tool. Students will produce a “Flexagon” that can help refocus attention and use repetitive actions to create calm. These Flexagons are designed to help children self-regulate, whilst keeping their hands busy. This sensory tool is great to use for calming, grounding and distraction.

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Lesson Outcomes

A student will learn to:

● think about their artmaking as a kind of social practice that employs both their own resources and their understanding of art
● interpret subject matter which is of local interest in particular ways in their making of artworks
● organise and assemble materials in various ways in the making of artworks suited to particular purposes and think about the meaning of their decisions

A student will learn about:

● how artists engage in the form of social practice in making art and contribute to the field of the visual arts
● a range of concepts and subject matter that is of interest to the art world and community

Lesson Resources

  1. Stage-3-Learning-Intentions.pdf
  2. Stage-3-Card-Tower-Challenge.pdf
  3. Stage-3-Flexagon-Planning-Sheet.pdf
  4. Stage-3-Sensory-Tools-Toolkit.pdf
  5. Stage-3-Sensory-Session-Toolkit-Fact-Sheet.pdf
  6. Stage-3-An-Artist.pdf
  7. Stage-3-Flexagon-Instructions-1.pdf
  8. Flexagon-Templates.pdf
  9. Stage-3-Flexagon-Reflection-Sheet.pdf
  10. Stage-3-Flexagon-Teacher-Guide.pdf
  11. Stage-3-Differentiated-Flexagon-Reflection-Sheet.pdf