Animals

This text addresses Key Stage three students to help them and their teachers to see the links between AT 1 (investigating and making) and AT 2 (knowledge and understanding). It explores critical vocabulary, research skills, uses of IT, objective drawing, technical diversity and multicultural links. Examples chosen represent the locality, the non-Western world and artists of past and present. The text provides colour reproductions of diverse artists' work, and students are shown how to use critical vocabulary and visual language. Suggestions for students' work are included in the form of short tasks and longer activities helping teachers to plan their scheme of work. Students are encouraged to use sketchbooks to record and develop their ideas (reinforcing links with design and technology) and to evaluate their own work as well as that of others.