Botanics: Painting ~ Art Lessons for children and guides for Teaching Artists and Parents

Botanics: Painting
Written and designed by FullARTon and Free for Teaching Ages 5 – 13 or to use at home for Ages 5 - Adult

Botanics: Painting is an innovative art education app – a first of its kind digital resource that brings together quality content, interactivity, and virtual teaching artists into the classroom. Painting is the second in a series five apps that provide teachers with all the information, ideas and strategies for an engaging and educationally rigorous Visual Art program with students aged from 5 to 13 years of age. With detailed explanations and loads of fun activities, it is both ideal in the classroom and great at home for anyone interested in making art. Fun for parents and children alike.

Each app uses the following learning sequence that enables quality artworks to be made while learning about the fundamentals of visual art practice:

Learning about artists and their works
Learning about the elements and principals of art
Learning and practicing skills and techniques
Creating artworks
Reflecting on and presenting works

Download the free Botanics Introduction app that details the underlying philosophy and format of the five individual apps related to the Botanic theme: drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking and sculpture. Each app contains extensive content with cross curriculum links that can be implemented over a school semester.

Experienced teaching artists have brought tried and tested methods, activities and ideas to the development of the Botanics apps so that anyone can have the resources to learn about and teach visual art to a range of age groups from pre-school to lower high school.

Designed for use with iPads, and in the classroom with smart boards and data projectors, the Botanics apps have been trialed with students from 5 – 18 in Australia and Asia with glowing recommendations from teachers and students.

REVIEWS
“Children from two organisations and in quite a wide age range spent two very happy hours with Fullarton and Free and their Botanics app. They were all thrilled with what they made.” Art Reach India

KEY FEATURES
A visually engaging and educationally thorough resource, the Botanics: Drawing app features:

• information on how to discuss and understand artworks of artists
• extensive teacher notes hidden in tabs to use in preparation for delivering the content to students in the classroom
• interactive elements for engagement and learning
• materials lists
• scaffolding experiments and explorations that address the theory and skills that underpin creating artworks
• video demonstrations of activities that are described with simple step-by-step instructions
• examples of artworks made using the activities in the app
• ideas for undertaking reflective critiques of student works
• information on how to display works
• guidance for assessing according to curriculum requirements
• cross curriculum connections