LESSON PLAN (Frank Deans-Costi)

Learning Area: Visual Arts/ Maths Year Level: Year 6/7

Unit Topic: Storyboard exercise

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Achievement standard/Performance Standard:

The intention of this exercise is for students familiarise themselves with one point perspective
drawing. The intended outcomes are for students to understand the basic principles required to
successfully draw one point perspective images. This lesson will highlight one point perspective
principles such as a vanishing point, horizon, foreground and background, and depth and distance.
This lesson will also allow students to draw on previous skills practiced, such as shading, three
dimensional drawing, composition, and framing.
Connections with Cross Curriculum Priorities and General Capabilities if using AC:

Construct simple prisms and pyramids (ACMMG140)

Describe translations, reflections and rotations of two-dimensional shapes. Identify line and
rotational symmetries (ACMMG114)
Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks (ACAVAM115)
Develop ways to enhance their intentions as artists through exploration of how artists use
materials, techniques, technologies and processes (ACAVAM119)

LESSON OUTLINE:

This lesson will commence with me providing an example of a one point perspective. As I
draw I will stop to highlight key terms and principles that are associated with one point
perspective drawing. (Time 15 minutes)
Students will be given ample opportunity to practice and hone their one point perspective
drawing techniques. Students who are quicker to master these principles, will, with my
guidance, have an opportunity to make their drawings more complex. (30 minutes)
The lesson will conclude with a 5 minute summary, to restate what the basic rules of one
point perspective drawing entails. (5 minutes)

LESSON INSTRUCTION:
Using your sketch pad, draw yourself a frame to create a box. Your box should be roughly
12centemteres high, and 18centemetres long. Create a horizon and a vanishing point. Now try and
draw a one point perspective sketch of a road, or path, or walkway, or train tracks, or anything else
you can think of.
ASSESSMENT:
Students will receive a grade out of 3. Students will be graded on how well they demonstrate an
understanding of one point perspective principles such as a vanishing point, a horizon, and the
showing the effect of distance. Students will also be graded on the level of care they put into their
sketching, demonstrating they have used a ruler, and eraser where appropriate.
Teaching strategies:

Time Allocated: 50mins

Resources Needed: Powerpoint, electronic whiteboard, sketchpad

Activity:
Using your sketch pad, draw yourself a frame to create a box. Your box should be roughly
12centemteres high, and 16centemetres long. Create a vanishing point directly in the middle of the
page. Now try and draw a one point perspective room, as like the diagram below.
Assessment:
Students will receive a grade out of 3. Students will be graded on how well they demonstrate an
understanding of one point perspective principles such as a vanishing point, a horizon, and the
showing the effect of distance. Students will also be graded on the level of care they put into their
sketching, demonstrating they have used a ruler, and eraser where appropriate.

One-point perspective (Teaching Notes)

Only one vanishing point on the horizon line (eye level to the viewer)

Vanishing point can exist anywhere along the horizon line

Cant see on top because it is above eye level

Perpendicular

Used for roads, railway tracks, hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is
directly facing the viewer

Lines are directly parallel with the viewers line of sight or directly perpendicular

Lines all converge to a vanishing point

One-point perspective
A drawing has one-point perspective when it contains only one vanishing point on the
horizon line. This type of perspective is typically used for images of roads, railway tracks,
hallways, or buildings viewed so that the front is directly facing the viewer. Any objects that
are made up of lines either directly parallel with the viewer's line of sight or directly
perpendicular (the railroad slats) can be represented with one-point perspective. These
parallel lines converge at the vanishing point.
One-point perspective exists when the painting plate (also known as the picture plane) is
parallel to two axes of a rectilinear (or Cartesian) scene a scene which is composed entirely
of linear elements that intersect only at right angles. If one axis is parallel with the picture
plane, then all elements are either parallel to the painting plate (either horizontally or
vertically) or perpendicular to it. All elements that are parallel to the painting plate are drawn
as parallel lines. All elements that are perpendicular to the painting plate converge at a single
point (a vanishing point) on the horizon.

Horizon line
Vanishing point
Slope, embankment going up diagonally
Lines that delineate the shape of the embankment
The rules of perspective
Recede into the distance