B1 Creative Arts · Term 3 Week 7: Appreciating and Appraising

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.4.6.2 - Use the agreed guidelines to examine and derive meaning from own and others’ displayed visual artworks

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Use the agreed guidelines to describe the elements and materials found in displayed visual artworks, including dot, line, shape, colour, texture, paper, pencil, clay and wood.
Identify the subject matter of a displayed artwork and state its meaning, message or mood in simple sentences.
Express their own feelings about displayed artworks using appropriate vocabulary such as “I like”, “the colours are bright”, “this makes me feel happy”.
Talk about what an artwork can be used for and mention its beauty, social and cultural value based on the agreed appraisal questions.
Share their design process experiences by telling how they planned, made and displayed their own artwork using at least three steps.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (1.4)
Content standard: B1.1.4.6 - Demonstrate understanding of how to analyse, appreciate, appraise/critique and present report on own works and that of others based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values), the recordings and reports
Indicator: B1.1.4.6.2 - Use the agreed guidelines to examine and derive meaning from own and others' displayed visual artworks
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 7 (Week 31 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. 24
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree to the guidelines to critically examine and come out with meaning from visual artworks;
- express own feelings and ideas about own and others' displayed artworks.
Suggested Process/Steps
- discuss and accept a guide for appreciating and appraising own and/or others visual artworks based on the guidelines suggested above;.
- identify the correct vocabularies to use for appreciating and appraising artworks;
- agree on what to use the appraisal report for and how to share it;
- agree on the approach/method (manual/digital) to use in recording/documenting the appraisal process;
- fix a day/date for the appreciation/appraisal/jury;
- select own/others artwork to talk about using the accepted guide.
Note: respond, appreciate and appraise exhibited/displayed own and others visual artworks.
Use the following guidelines: 1. Description of the work: the elements in the work (dot, lines, shapes, forms, colour, texture, tone), materials used (paper, pencil, clay, wood), size of the work, number of objects/items in the work; 2. Subject matter: meaning, message, topic, mood, feelings, historical, religious, environment, global warming; 3. Appraisal: what the work can be used for, likes, good things in the work, beauty social and cultural value, correlation (connection to other areas of learning); 4. Experiences to share: the design process through thinking and composing, planning and making, displaying and sharing etc.