Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)

Content standard

B2.1.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions about the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues

Indicator

B2.1.1.1.2 - Explore own experiences to talk about visual artworks that are produced or found in other communities in Ghana

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. 32

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- talk about the visual artworks produced or found in other parts of Ghana (e.g. pots, wood carvings, woven baskets, woven/printed and dyed fabrics, leather products, canoes, cane/wood furniture, road signs, posters, jewellery, billboards)
- discuss the materials and tools that were/are used in making these artworks, the processes and production techniques, and how they are used
- discuss the theme of the artworks and its social and cultural importance;
- identify those who make artworks;
- study the subject matter of the different artworks;
- examine the type of materials used in making the artworks;
- probe how the artworks are made, how they are made, the safety rules that are observed, taboos (if any) associated with the visual artworks;
- explore the symbolism, function and uses of these artworks.