B1 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 10: Planning, Making and Composing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.2.2.4 - Make firm decisions on the relevant visual arts making tools, materials and methods for creating own visual artworks that reflect local topical issues in the local community

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

recall at least three topical issues currently of concern to people in their local community from memory.
identify and name at least two local artworks that reflect current issues of concern in the community.
select and state the specific tools and materials they will use to make their own artwork that reflects a chosen topical issue.
make a clear pencil or crayon outline of the artwork they plan to create, showing the topical issue they have chosen.
explain in one or two sentences why they chose their specific tools, materials and method for their planned artwork.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B1.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks, based on the history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B1.1.2.2.4 - Make firm decisions on the relevant visual arts making tools, materials and methods for creating own visual artworks that reflect local topical issues in the local community
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 9
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- recall from memory what current issues are of concern to people in the local community;
- recall the selection of local artworks that reflect current topical issues of concern to the local community;
- make pencil/crayon outlines to define the artworks they plan to make to reflect the topical local issues;