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Activity: create your own Picture of Britain project
Activity F: Sketches of History
L S Lowry
Industrial Landscape
1955
 View in Tate Collection
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1956
© the estate of the artist |
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- As a class, think about how your area looks. What are the landmarks? What kinds of buildings are in the city centre? How do the houses look? What about the landscape? What kinds of transportation are there? What do the people wear? Write down all the features you can think of to describe your area.
- Pick an area of your town - for example, the city centre - and work together as a class to make a work of art (drawing, painting, or collage) of how it looks. Use a long piece of paper taped to the wall, or use separate pieces of paper and then attach them together. Make sure that you include all of the features that belong to that area of town.
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- Now imagine it is 100 years ago. What would the same area of town look like? What kinds of buildings would exist, and which ones would not have been built yet? What kinds of transportation would people have used, and what kinds of clothes would they wear? Write down all of the features that you can think of to describe how your town would have looked 100 years ago.
- Now, using the same method as before, create a class drawing, painting or collage of how that area of your town might have looked 100 years ago.
- Now imagine it is 500 years ago. What differences might there be? Use the questions above to explore what kinds of features your town would have had 500 years ago. Then make another drawing or collage of the town as you imagine it might have looked at that time.
- Take digital pictures of the class's art work and send them to your partner class along with the lists of features, and arrange for them to do the same.
- What differences and similarities do you see in the drawings your partner class has made? What buildings appear in the present-day depiction of their area but do not appear in the one from 100 years ago? What about the one from 500 years ago?
Tip: Check local history Web sites for more information about your town's important buildings, features, landmarks and landscape.
Tip: If you are studying particular historical periods with your class, substitute them for the time periods suggested here. For example, instead of 100 and 500 years ago, think about how your area might have looked in Victorian times and in the Middle Ages.
Curriculum areas: History, Geography, Art
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Activity E