Understanding Mental Illness links to The Arts

Changing people's minds & attitudes

Survey collation - pages 57–59

Video - changing people's attitudes - pages 59–61

Script your own advertisement - pages 61–62

Exploring attitudes - page 62

The kindness of strangers (handout) - page 63

Key communication messages (handout) - page 64

Level 5 Creating and making

At Level 5 students, individually and collaboratively, plan, design, improvise, interpret and present artworks that expressively communicate feelings, ideas and purpose. They select and apply skills, techniques, processes, media, materials and technologies across a range of arts forms. They generate and develop ideas that explore themes, techniques and issues when making arts works.

They manipulate arts elements and principles to expressively communicate ideas and develop imaginative solutions to set tasks. They explain their decisions about how they present arts works for specific purposes and audiences.

Level 6 Creating and Making

At Level 6, within and across areas of specialisation, students create arts works devised from a range of abstract ideas and/or stimuli, demonstrating development of a personal style. They justify and refine the content and aesthetic qualities of their works. Individually and in groups, they design and product arts works influenced by the style o f particular artists or cultures. They vary the content, structure and form of their arts works to suit purpose, audience and/or the conventions of a specific style, and demonstrate proficiency and technical competence in the use of skills, techniques and processes. They effectively use a range of media, materials and technologies.

Taking actions, creating options

Getting help - pages 87–88

Sample questions - page 88

Actions & reactions - page 89

Discussion - page 89

Level 5 Creating and Making

Level 6 Creating and Making

Seeking help, finding support

Identifying the need for support - page 75

Local services - page 75

Care of the seriously mentally ill in Australia - page 76

Something is not quite right - getting help early for mental illness (handout) - pages 77–78

Scenario cards (handouts) - pages 79–82

Care of the seriously mentally ill in Australia (handout) - pages 83–86

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.