Year 2 Visual Arts – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Creating Art from Our Environment

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 2 Visual Arts in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Creating Art from Our Environment”.

Students explore how visual elements are used in their environment and apply these discoveries to create their own artwork.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Discovering Colours in Our School Environment
2. Finding Shapes Around Us
3. Exploring Lines in Nature and Buildings
4. Making Art with Natural Materials
5. Creating Collages Using Environmental Textures
6. Building Sculptures from Recycled Materials
7. Painting Our Local Landscape
8. Designing Art for Our Classroom Environment

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.