PS S4.5 Pop Goes The Culture STUDENT WORKBOOK

Pop Goes the Culture – Student Workbook

The Pop Goes the Culture Student Workbook is a thoughtfully designed learning companion that guides Stage 4 Visual Arts students through an engaging exploration of Pop Art, popular culture, and mass media imagery. Blending creative artmaking tasks, structured theory, and hands-on activities, this workbook supports students in developing confidence with painting, layering, and visual communication.

Throughout the workbook, students investigate the Pop Art movement and study the work of influential artist Roy Lichtenstein, with a focus on his artwork Explosion (1967). Students analyse how bold colour, Ben-Day dots, comic-style imagery, and layering are used to communicate ideas about society, consumerism and mass media. Inspired by these concepts, students create a layered mixed-media artwork that reflects a modern example of popular culture that is relevant to their world.

What’s Inside

Art making Activities:
Step-by-step outline and visual examples to support students at a range of ability levels.

Artist Case Study:
A structured study of Roy Lichtenstein’s artistic practice, including guided notes, comprehension tasks, and annotation activities that help students understand Pop Art techniques and cultural context.

Super Six Comprehension:
Integrated literacy, Super Six strategies to support students.

Critical and Historical Studies:
Activities that explore Pop Art through the Structural and Cultural viewpoints and the Artworld concepts of Artist, Artwork, World, and Audience, encouraging students to think critically about the influence of popular culture and mass media.

Checkpoints & Self-Assessment:
Clear success criteria, learning checkpoints, and reflection tasks that help students monitor progress and take ownership of their learning.


Suitable for Stage 4 Learners
This workbook is specifically designed for Stage 4 learners, providing age-appropriate content, structured guidance, and scaffolded activities that build both creative confidence and critical thinking skills in alignment with Stage 4 Visual Arts curriculum outcomes.