Comparative photography: the Grand Canyon and your local area

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Comparing People and Places The Grand Canyon

Objectives

Geography

  • Describe and understand key aspects of human and physical geography.

Art

  • Record observations in sketchbooks and use them to review and revisit ideas.
  • Improve mastery of art and design techniques including drawing and painting with a range of materials.

Lesson Planning

Take a fieldtrip to a local geographic feature and explore the geological and aesthetic beauty of it through your own photographic shots. Develop your own ideas of how to exhibit your photographs in order to create a complementary exhibition to your Grand Canyon exhibit.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To identify geographic features from photographs.
  • To create a mixed media piece of art that highlights contrasting local geographic features.

Children will:

  • Visit a local natural feature and take a range of geographic photographs and make sketches
  • Identify geographic features from the photographs they have taken
  • Create a mixed media (photography and drawing/painting) piece of art that highlights contrasting local geographic features

You Will Need

  • Range of art materials and paper
  • Digital cameras or camera enabled devices
  • Sketch books and pencils

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.