Everything you need to teach all 30 units of the IB DP Visual Arts course (FA2027) — 27 core units plus 3 standalone HL-only Artist Project units.

What’s included — 30 Unit Planners:

Phase 1: Create (4 units) — Studio foundations, observation and drawing, media experimentation, creative strategies

Phase 2: Connect (4 units) — Critical analysis, cultural significance, personal/local/global contexts, art-making forms across time and place

Phase 3: Communicate (4 units) — Subject-specific vocabulary, curating materials, digital documentation, exhibiting and audience

Phase 4: Line of Inquiry 1 (3 units) — Formulating inquiry questions, investigation and experimentation, generating and refining

Phase 5: Line of Inquiry 2 (4 units) — Critical review, new directions, investigation and generation, refinement and resolution

Phase 6: Connections Study / Artist Project (2 units) — Selecting a resolved artwork, researching artists

Phase 7: Coherent Body of Work (3 units) — Producing resolved artworks I and II, coherence and synthesis

Phase 8: Final Resolution and Submission (3 units) — Rationale and artwork texts, portfolio curation, final digital submission

HL Artist Project (3 standalone units) — HL.a Launch: Proposal and Context; HL.b Realization: Curating and Video Documentation; HL.c Post-Production Evaluation and Future Development

Each Unit Planner Includes:

Unit overview — code, IB level, phase, core area, term/weeks, SL/HL hours

Assessment objectives and task connection identified

Guiding questions

Learning outcomes with HL-only flags and task markers

Key vocabulary

Lesson-by-lesson plan with activities, pedagogy and resources

Guide page references

Formative assessment guidance

TOK connection and ATL skills focus

Teacher reflection prompts

Features:

FA2027 syllabus-aligned

SL/HL differentiation embedded in every unit

Assessment objective mapping across all 7 objectives

Direct task connections — portfolio, connections study, artist project

HL Artist Project fully planned across all 6 criteria

Studio-based pedagogy with extended independent sessions

Academic integrity woven throughout to final authentication

Editable format

Built from the IB Visual Arts Guide — First assessment 2027.

Updated: September 2026. Independently produced. Not endorsed by or affiliated with the IBO.

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