Year 6 Visual Arts – Term 4 (WA Curriculum): Responding to Art Across Time and Cultures

What this unit covers

In Term 4, Year 6 Visual Arts in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Responding to Art Across Time and Cultures”.

Students develop skills in analyzing and responding to artwork created by different audiences across various social, cultural and historical contexts.

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. Exploring Ancient Egyptian Art and Its Audience
2. Responding to Indigenous Australian Art Traditions
3. Analyzing Medieval European Religious Art
4. Discovering Asian Art Forms and Cultural Meanings
5. Examining Modern Art Movements and Their Impact
6. Investigating Contemporary Street Art and Community Voices
7. Comparing Art Across Different Time Periods
8. Creating Personal Responses to Cross-Cultural Artworks

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 4

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 4 runs from Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December — 10 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.