This complete unit is designed to compliment the recent unit rolled out by NSW Education Department 2026.
It is based on the unit of work Unit 4 CAPA (Creative Arts) · Drama and Visual Arts STAGE 3
This is the complete unit.
Duration: 8 weeks + 2 weeks optional consolidation
This unit teaches students to explore retro-futurism, blending vintage aesthetics with futuristic concepts to imagine new possibilities.
In Drama, students explore melodramatic characters, situations and structures through improvising and devising. Students use their knowledge of melodrama to collaboratively devise and script their own futuristic melodrama performance.
In Visual Arts, students explore retrofuturism in artmaking through steampunk. They use printmaking processes to create cogwheel-inspired foam prints and apply their understanding of materials, techniques and 3D sculptural processes to collaboratively plan, make and exhibit a steampunk-inspired wire sculpture.
The Creative Arts K–6 sample units are designed as a 16-lesson sequence, comprising of 8 Drama lessons and 8 Visual Arts lessons, with 4 optional consolidation lessons. The lessons are written in sequence to show the flow of learning and the building of concepts across lessons. To implement the syllabus and meet teaching requirements, teachers are expected to teach one Drama and one Visual Arts lesson each week. Sample units have been written to be flexible, allowing for schools to implement lessons from either or both focus areas, depending on their individual context.
Syllabus outcomes
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CA3-DRA-01 makes and performs drama to shape meaning using the dramatic elements, and explains how meaning is conveyed to audiences and ways contexts influence drama
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CA3-VIS-01 makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas about their world, and explains ways artists are influenced by contexts and how artworks are interpreted by audiences
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CA3-CWT-01 creates written texts to communicate ideas and understanding in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts
What is included in this pack?
- PowerPoint with over 530 slides (editable)
- This unit does include some AI assisted slides which are NOT editable
- Student worksheets and assessment tasks
- PDF for easy printing
- Teaching notes under each slide
- Quick links to units.
- Sections for each lesson included in the PowerPoint presentation.
- Self Assessment tasks.
- Video links
- Created for use with the IWB.
- Suggested teaching prep for each lesson.
- Outcomes and indicators included for each lesson.
This is a comprehensive unit which will save you hours of preparation time. It is important at the start of each lesson that you read the teaching notes as there is some Lesson preparation needed for some lessons. These include printing sets of cards in some lessons, printing worksheets for assessment purposes so that work samples are available for each child.
Some things you will need for this unit:
- writing materials
- A4 paper
- graphite pencil
- image of a cogwheel (provided in unit)
- blunt pencil
- ballpoint pen
- printmaking materials
- block printing ink or black acrylic paint
- foam or rubber brayers
- scratch foam printing sheets
- Text: Mechanica: a beginner's field guide
- Construction materials:
- pre-cut aluminum armature wire
- pre-cut aluminium wire mesh
- long-nose jewelry pliers
- 'found' technology and materials such as springs, cogwheels, bird feathers, zippers, keys, scraps of leather and other fabric
- Items to pull apart with cords cut off eg old toasters, speakers, computers etc
- materials donated from home or
- dress up clothes
- paintbrushes
- pigment based drawing sepia, burnt umber or burnt sienna (or old newspapers)
- coffee or old teabags can also be used to create sepia effect
- display cards
Important note
The font which has been used in this presentation is the Google font Edu NSW ACT foundation which needs to be downloaded onto your computer (this can be done by clicking on the blue link provided). You must restart your device once installed and all of the formatting will be correctly in place. This step is VERY important otherwise your units will be misaligned.
- Due to the 'wordiness' of the document, I have used AI images that CANNOT be edited, in order to make it more user friendly for Kindergarten students.
- Please be aware of this when purchasing this product. The rest of the PowerPoint slides have been made editable.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures: when planning and programming content relating to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures, teachers are encouraged to:
- involve local Aboriginal Communities and/or appropriate Knowledge Holders in determining suitable resources
- use Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander-authored or endorsed publications
- read the principles and protocols relating to teaching and learning about Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander histories and Cultures and the involvement of local Aboriginal Communities.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Guide to evaluating and selecting education resources has been developed to assist teachers in selecting appropriate resources for teaching about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, Cultures and Languages respectfully and effectively.
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- Printing and Use: You may print this product for your personal use or for use within your own classroom. Sharing printed copies with other teachers, schools, or organisations is not allowed.
- You MAY make one copy for backup purposes, but not with the intent to redistribute.
- You MAY share the cover image only on blog posts and social media provided there is both credit given to myself with a link to my TPT store.
- Please buy additional licenses if more than one teacher in your school is going to be using it.
- This is not to be sold for commercial use.
- You may not repackage, sell or give away part of all of this product to others.
- You may not offer or share part or all of this product anywhere on the internet as a download or copy including, but not limited to, personal sites or school sites that are on a page that is open to the public, sharing google drive links with others that are not your students or their family, internet or email small sharing groups, shared databases , open education resource groups such as Amazon inspire.
- You may not use on commercial sites such as OUTSCHOOL
Attribution is given to © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2026.
