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

B2.1.1.1.3 - Reflect on own experiences to talk about visual artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 2 (Week 2 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. 34

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- identify and talk about the natural and manmade environment (e.g. plants, animals, rivers, buildings, recreational centres, roads, bridges, markets, shopping malls);
- engage in a five minutes' environmental walks to observe elements of design (e.g. lines, shapes, colour) and principles of design (e.g. rhythm, balance, proportion) that can be seen in the natural and manmade environments (e.g. vegetation, animals, birds, buildings, recreational centres, roads, bridges, markets, shopping malls, drains, highlands, beaches)
- collect some samples of objects found in the natural and manmade environments (e.g. bottles, pebbles, packages, bottle tops, stones, shells, twigs, fibre, straw, flowers) to create a 'learning corner' in the classroom and for general discussions and appreciation;
- document and record the things and objects found in the natural and manmade environments by taking photographs and making videos for preservation, storage, referencing
- consider the characteristics of the things observed in the natural environment (e.g. clean, neat, dirty, beautiful, huge, big, small, young, old, smooth, rough, hard, soft, shiny, balanced, colour, tone, mood, tall, short, long, heavy, light, space, shape, form, line) to form ideas for making own artworks.