lesson ideas on how to celebrate australian football in the classroom · 2015-04-29 · media arts...

LESSON IDEAS ON HOW TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL IN THE CLASSROOM

KEY LEARNING AREA: ART

NO. TITLE FOCUS SYNOPSIS TARGETED YEAR LEVELS

1 The captain’s speech

Drama Have students work in groups to role-play an AFL captain’s speech to his team in different circumstances – at an awards night, before the game, half-time when they are winning or losing and after the game when they have won or lost. Ask groups to present their speeches without words and have the class deduce in what circumstance the speech was delivered by solely considering facial expressions and movement.

Years F-2Years 3-4Years 5-6Years 7-8

2 AFL huddle Drama Divide the class into teams of 8-10 students. In their role as a team coach, have each member of a group prepare a three-quarter time speech for their team that is behind by one point in the Grand Final. In their address they are to use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish role and situation.


3 My football story

Drama Ask students to write a script for a short story describing a favourite Australian Football moment that involves them. Have them form groups to rehearse and perform the moment for the class. They should enhance their stories by using available software and technologies, for example, using a mobile device to add sound effects.


4 My goal of the year

Drama Have students develop a personal commentary of them kicking the AFL Goal of the Year. Their commentary should be written as a television commentator would call the goal, for example, ‘he picks up the ball, rounds one, rounds two and kicks a spectacular goal from an acute angle’. Students should then re-enact their goal, using voice, body, movement and language for the class while they or another class member commentates.

Years 3-4Years 5-6Years 7-8

5 Against all odds

Drama Divide the class into writing teams. Have them create a script of a short story about a local footballer who made it to the AFL after many setbacks. Their story should have moments of dramatic tension and be rehearsed and performed. Students should present their performances using social media, and consider the effect that a real and virtual audience has on their planning and performance.

Years 5-6Years 7-8

6 AFL body language

Drama Divide the class into groups and have each group re-enact the body language of a player, coach, supporter, commentator and umpire in a range of situations that engender human emotions such as joy, disappointment, anger, respect, disrespect etc. Ask the class to deduce what message or feeling the actor is trying to convey through their body language.


7 Football sounds

Media Arts Have the class play a game of Australian Football. Ask them to think of the sounds that are associated with the game. In groups, have them recreate the sounds to communicate ideas that tell the class about some aspect of the game. Students should be able to present their sounds and explain their association to football.

Years F-2

8 Show me how to play Australian Football

Media Arts Have students review an AFL coaching manual or video that teaches the skills of the game. Ask them to identify image features such as shot types, i.e. long shot, mid shot and close-up, and discuss why the images were photographed/filmed and presented that way for the audience.

Years F-2Years 3-4


9 What’s my football story?

Media Arts Ask students to identify 5-10 sequential moments that occurred at their day at the football. Their day could have commenced by waking up and having breakfast, putting on their favourite team jumper, travelling to the football on a train with the cheer squad etc. Have them write each individual moment on a strip of paper and jumble them for other students to place back in their correct sequence.

Years 3-4Years 5-6

10 AFL respect and disrespect

Media Arts Have students take a series of photographs that show themselves and their friends as AFL footballers depicting respect and disrespect in the game. Their messages to the audience should be conveyed through setting, costume and body language.


11 Our big AFL story

Media Arts After conducting an investigation, have the class decide on what they think was the biggest story in AFL football last season. They should experiment with available software and appropriate graphics, fonts, colours and images to format and lay out a front-page news story on the topic.

Years 3-4Years 5-6

12 Join our club now!

Media Arts Have students plan and script a radio advertisement to recruit members for an AFL club. They should discuss the type of messages that a club could use to attract membership and the representation of itself it should communicate to the community. The advertisement should convey strongly the image the club seeks to promote.

Years 5-6Years 7-8

13 Making it to the top

Drama Ask the class to conduct research on an AFL player with a multicultural or indigenous background who experienced challenges in his quest to the play the game at the highest level. Have them use their understanding of the human behaviour and emotions experienced by the player and their empathy for his story, to develop a script, including characters and roles, about a person who has faced obstacles achieving their dream in life.

Years 5-6Years 7-8

14 Our game in pictures

Media Arts Organise a game of football where students, working in groups, take photos of the experience. Have groups retell the experience in a series of captioned images.

Years F-2Years 3-4

15 Let’s promote the AFL

Media Arts Divide the class in groups. Tell students that they are now part of the AFL marketing and media team. Their task is to think of one aspect of the AFL that they can produce an advertisement for. The Grand Final, opening round, Brownlow Medal, Anzac Day or Multicultural Round could be some highly marketable events that they can consider. Have them plan, create and present an advertisement for the AFL and consider which responsible media practices in their production they will need to abide by such as permission for the use of images, video or audio.


16 The story behind the story

Media Arts Divide the class in groups and assign images of 2-3 AFL Indigenous Round jumpers for each group to review. Ask them to make comparisons, identify meanings and describe representations in each jumper. Have groups make a presentation of their findings to the class. Have them compare their ideas with THE STORIES BEHIND EACH CLUB’S INDIGENOUS GUERNSEY . (insert hyperlink)

Years 3-4Years 5-6

17 Commentating life

Media Arts Have students watch or listen to an AFL game on television, internet or radio. Deconstruct the commentary by focusing on the match and player descriptions, the style of the call, the dramatic effects, humour used and game information conveyed. Ask students to apply the conventions of the commentary to an ordinary every day event to create humour. For example, describing lunchtime or a mathematics lesson in the form of a sports commentary on radio.

Years 5-6Years 7-8


18 The coach Visual arts Provide students with images of AFL coaches addressing their players during a game. Have students select one coach and use their observations to draw a personal interpretation of his face. They should emphasise the shapes, colours and textures of the coaches’ facial features in their artwork.


19 This is me Visual arts Have the class participate in a game of Australian Football where each student is photographed in action. Have students recreate their image as a painting, drawing, sculpture or other form of papier mache, clay or modroc plaster 3D model.


20 Our AFL art exhibition

Visual arts Ask the class to organise a gallery exhibition of AFL art in their classroom for an audience. Have them discuss which other non-art items would enhance the AFL theme of the exhibition. They may consider sounds associated with Australian Football, video of classic games, streamers and banners etc.

Years F-2Years 3-4

21 AFL art – What does it mean?

Visual arts Source a range of AFL art from the internet for the class to view. Have students consider what the artwork makes them think about and why? What figures/shapes could they see in the artwork? How has the artist treated the figures/shapes to convey their idea or meaning? Ask students to present and justify their ideas to the class.


22 A look back at history

Visual arts Source from the internet a range of Australian Football photographs and (or) paintings from the 1930s i.e. matches, players, spectators, suburban grounds, public transport to games etc. Have students make interpretations and draw conclusions about the artwork(s)/image(s) by considering what they are telling us about the past? How do they use visual conventions to convey meaning? How did the artist work within a space, and during the time the images were captured?


23 Our AFL collage

Visual arts Have the class embark on an Australian Football hunters and gatherers activity where student groups are required to source a variety of AFL, VFL, local or school football paraphernalia. Once they have collected their items ask student groups to combine, adapt and manipulate images and objects to create an Australian Football collage.


24 We are AFL superheroes

Visual arts Have students create a series of artworks that show themselves and their friends as AFL superheroes. Ask them to consider how the same work can be interpreted differently through the use of other techniques and technologies such as animation, slideshows etc.

Years 3-4Years 5-6

25 AFL club songs Music Have the class listen to and sing a range of AFL club songs. Ask them to think about the meaning of the songs. How did the songs make them feel? What did they make them think about and why? How does the composer show emotion in the songs?


26 History of AFL club songs

Music Ask the class to research the origins of the Melbourne Football Club song, ‘It’s a grand old flag’. Ask them to identify and connect the specific features and purposes of music from the different eras. Why did the club use this tune as their club anthem? Which themes and messages are common to both the original and new versions? Have the class sing the club song. Which feelings and emotions does it convey? Research other AFL clubs to determine the origins of their club songs.

Years 5-6Years 7-8


27 AFL on the dance floor

Dance Have students model at least four basic and traditional football moves. For example, marking, bouncing the ball, kicking, handball etc. Ask them to perform the moves without the ball in a set sequence to music. They should try to set the sequence to a range of genres such as contemporary rock, hip hop, classical and music from culturally diverse or indigenous communities.

Years F-2Years 3-4

28 Our AFL extravaganza

Music/Dance

Have the class produce the pregame and half-time entertainment for a school football match. They can write and sing a team song based on the values in AFL club songs and perform an Australian Football dance routine based on the fundamental movements of the game.

Years 5-6Years 7-8

29 AFL Grand Final entertainment

Music Have students nominate a range of artists that they believe the AFL should engage to sing at the Grand Final. Students should justify their choice of artist and song by discussing their personal preferences, how effectively the artist uses expressive techniques, what the strengths of their performances are and how this artist and song will provide the audience with what they expect.


30 AFL into the next century

Visual arts Design a logo for the AFL to take it forward into the next 100 years. Provide students with examples of AFL/VFL logos from the past 100 years as stimulus.


lesson ideas on how to celebrate australian football in the classroom · 2015-04-29 · media arts...

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