FB S4.4 Don't Look QUEEN-BEE PREMIUM BUNDLE

Queen-Bee Bundle: Don’t Look

Exploring Optical Illusions, Tessellations, and Visual Perception

Bring curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and meaningful reflection into your Stage 4 Visual Arts classroom with the Queen-Bee Bundle: Don’t Look, a complete teaching package designed to engage students in the fascinating world of optical illusions, tessellations, and Practice. This premium resource aligns with the NSW Visual Arts Syllabus and supports teachers in delivering a rich, skill-focused artmaking experience where students explore how movement, colour, line, and geometric design can create visually dynamic artworks that challenge perception.

Through this unit, students investigate how artists manipulate visual perception and explore the ways pattern, symmetry, repetition, and colour theory influence how we see and interpret artworks. They develop technical drawing skills while considering how different audiences might respond to their creations. Students are also encouraged to reflect on how creativity is a God-given gift, exploring themes such as discernment, seeing beyond appearances, and expressing ideas and values through visual language.

What’s Inside?

Digital Resources:

• Unit of Work: A detailed digital program covering a focus study on Akiyoshi Kitaoka, optical illusion and tessellation techniques. Lessons are structured with the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model and syllabus-aligned, encouraging creative thinking and conceptual understanding through the Structural Viewpoint and Artworld Concepts.

• Assessment Notification: A ready-to-use assessment outline for the optical illusion or tessellation drawing and artist statement, complete with marking criteria and clear student guidance.

• Scope and Sequence: A NESA-compliant overview that maps the 10-week learning sequence, key outcomes, and progression of technical, conceptual, and reflective skills.

Physical Resource:

• Teacher Handbook: A professionally printed guide providing step-by-step lesson support, visual examples, and teaching strategies that promote experimentation, observation, discussion, and reflection. It aligns directly with the Student Workbook (sold separately) for seamless delivery.

Why You’ll Love It

• Comprehensive and Convenient: Includes both digital and physical resources to support easy implementation and flexible classroom delivery.

• Time-Saving: Everything from lesson guides to assessment and activities is prepared, allowing teachers to focus on student engagement, creativity, and reflective discussion.

• Skill-Focused: Builds students’ confidence in drawing, pattern creation, colour application, and visual problem-solving while exploring how perception, mathematics, and conceptual thinking intersect in art.

• Culturally Responsive: Integrates the 8 Ways of Aboriginal Pedagogy by encouraging visual learning.

• Faith Integration: Encourages students to reflect on how God’s design is seen in patterns, order, and structure, and how faith can guide discernment and understanding when appearances are misleading.

• Cross-Curricular Links: Connects with Mathematics (geometry, symmetry, measurement) and Science (visual perception and optics).

Transform Your Classroom
Empower your students to explore how what they see may not always be what is real, and how careful observation, creative problem-solving, and reflective thinking can reveal new ways of seeing. The Queen-Bee Bundle: Don’t Look gives teachers the tools to guide students in creating technically strong, visually compelling artworks while developing understanding of perception, pattern, design, and the deeper values expressed through creativity.

Bring mathematical precision, visual exploration, creative reflection, and meaningful faith connections to your Visual Arts room with Don’t Look, where perception, pattern, and artmaking intersect.