"The Best Team Ever", School Journal, level 2, August 2017
21 August 2017
This play follows six students grouped together to make a wearable arts costume.
The students are forced to improvise after their original idea doesn't go as planned.
You can find the article on Literacy Online: "The Best Team Ever", School Journal, level 2, August 2017.
Other useful resources
This news article provides information about a wearable art costume made by students from Queen Margaret College:
Students could explore the materials collected in the play, those used in the Passchendaele-inspired dress and other wearable art costumes available to the class.
Discussion questions
These could include:
- What are the names of materials used in the wearable art costumes?
- What are the performance properties of the materials – for example texture, colour, stretch?
- How have they manipulated (shaped, joined, sewn, glued) the materials to make the costumes? How could the students manipulate the materials they collected in the play to make a costume?
Indicators of progression for discussion starters
| Component | Indicator | Level |
| Technological products |
| 1 |
| Technological products |
| 2 |