B1 Creative Arts · Term 3 Week 9: Appreciating and Appraising

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.4.7.1 - Examine the displayed performing artworks and make decisions on the beauty and usefulness of each artwork based on the agreed guidelines

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Look carefully at displayed visual artworks using the class agreed guidelines and describe what they see, hear, or feel about each piece.
Make simple decisions about whether an artwork is beautiful, useful, or both, and give at least one reason for their decision.
Sort displayed artworks into those that are mainly beautiful, mainly useful, or both beautiful and useful.
Talk about how one displayed artwork could be made more useful or more beautiful in the future.
Work with a partner to share their views respectfully and listen to a friend’s opinion about the same artwork.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (1.4)
Content standard: B1.1.4.7 - Demonstrate understanding of how to make informed decisions on displays, presentations, performances, recordings and/or reports based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) for correlation, correction and future modifications
Indicator: B1.1.4.7.1 - Examine the displayed performing artworks and make decisions on the beauty and usefulness of each artwork based on the agreed guidelines
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 9 (Week 33 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.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

indicator text - p.27: the document prints "performing artworks" here, under the page heading "STRAND 1: Visual Arts" and content standard B1 1.4.7; every exemplar in the same cell says "visual artworks", and B1.2.4.7.1 on p.29 prints this identical sentence under "STRAND 2: Performing Arts". Transcribed as printed
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 27
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- view and make informed decisions on agreed guidelines by using the senses and movement;
- assess based on established guide for judging artworks by using the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements;
- recognise the characteristics of own and others' displayed visual artworks
- talk about the usefulness of the displayed visual artworks;
- identify future modifications that can be made to enhance the usefulness.