Art iExperience

Maori Myths and Legends Weaving iExperience

Achievement Objective: Visual Arts Level 2 Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles. Investigate and develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination Level 3 Explore some art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes. Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works. Key Competencies: Understanding Language, symbols and text. Learning Coach Author: Mrs Gernhoefer Date: Term 1, 2017

Harry has been learning about Maori Myths and Legends in iExperience. The learning coaches took him through the differences between a Myth and Legend. His learning coach read the book “Hinapau” to the class. Harry’s task was to listen to the story and draw inspiration from it in order to draw a picture based on the story “Hinepau”. This task encourages him to make connections between the text and knowledge of drawing. After listening to the story, Harry was inspired to draw a volcano. He showed his capabilities in drawing by adding beautiful Koru patterns to it to represent smoke coming out of the volcano. (A picture of the volcano from the story)

Next Step: Harry’s next step is to colour in his picture. After he colours his picture he is going to cut his picture into strips so that he can weave. The end result will look similar to the picture below.