B1 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 1: Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.1.1.1 - Think about the people who live in the local community and describe what you know about their history and their culture or way of life

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least two different groups of people who live in their local community
Tell one fact about how their community started or where the people came from
Describe at least two aspects of the culture or way of life of people in the community, such as food, dressing, language, or buildings
Ask at least one question about the history or culture of the community when listening to a story from a visitor or elder
Draw or model one thing that shows what they have learned about the people in their community

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)
Content standard: B1.1.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions on the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B1.1.1.1.1 - Think about the people who live in the local community and describe what you know about their history and their culture or way of life
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 1 (Week 1 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 2
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- think about the different groups of people who live in the local community (your village, town, city or district);
- share ideas they have about the history of the people (including where they came from, the leaders who brought them, how the village started);
- share stories that describe the culture or way of life (including their language, the food they eat, their dressing, type of buildings, farming tools, way of cooking, body marks, songs, dances, artworks) of people in the community;
- listen to and ask questions about stories told by community elders or resource persons that explain the history and culture of the people in the community;
- take a walk in the community to visit famous buildings (such as the post office, chief's palace, old buildings), important places and old sites of the community. Where possible, view photographs or use ICT devices (such as computer) to view pictures or watch videos of artworks on the internet;
- use ideas gained to plan to create own visual artworks that describe the people and how they live describe who the people are and how they live.