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

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.1.1.2 - Think about and describe the different visual artworks that are produced or found in the local community

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least five different types of visual artworks found in their local community, such as drawings, clay pots, posters, wood carvings, and calendars.
Describe what each visual artwork is made of and what it is used for.
Sort and group pictures of visual artworks into categories based on what they are made of or how they are used.
Share their observations and ideas about local visual artworks with a partner or small group using clear speaking voices.
Record their learning about local visual artworks by drawing or writing in a simple art journal.

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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: B1.1.1.1.2 - Think about and describe the different visual artworks that are produced or found in the local community
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 visual artworks (including drawings, clay pots, posters, wood carvings, calendars) they know of or have seen in the community;
- look at photographs or pictures that show artworks in books, catalogues, magazines and identify them by name or what they are made of or used for;
- identify and share ideas about different kinds of visual artworks that are produced or found in the local community;
- visit the workplace of a visual artist (graphic designer making prints on T-shirts, pottery artist making clay pots, textile artist weaving Kente, sculptor making cement statue, etc.) to observe, ask questions, make notes and learn about their work practices;
- record knowledge gained for planning own visual artworks.