Learning objective

  • To draw using tone to create a 3D effect.

Success criteria

  • I can experiment with shading to create different

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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1: Lesson plan

An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

May benefit from a one-to-one demonstration of holding the pencil, especially with lighter tones; could arrange and draw a curved and shaped card strip rather than ribbon.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should be encouraged to describe how they create tones using the pencil differently; could be encouraged to create a more complex shape to draw; could develop some observational drawings using colour as well as pencil tone.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: creating several pencil tones when shading

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Vocabulary definitions

  • contrast

    When things look different from each other, such as putting light colours next to dark colours or big shapes next to small shapes to make them stand out.

  • gradient

    A gradient in art is when colours gradually change from light to dark or from one colour to another.

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