Summary: Open-Ended Nature Of The Arts Learning Activities

This lesson was planned on a student-centred, hands-on approach to learning. The open-ended nature of the arts learning activities in this lesson required organisation and planning. Therefore, the classroom was re-created to ensure students were provided with a positive, engaging, effective, and safe learning environment (Dinham, 2014, p. 66). This environment supported the student’s arts literacy development, creativity, self-expression and cultural awareness (Dinham, 2014, p. 18).

The introduction was developed to stimulate interest and encourage thinking. It communicates to the students what they are going to learn, how it relates to their prior knowledge, and how it is going to happen.

Visual stimulation is an influential way of encouraging