Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)

Content standard

B3.1.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions on the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues

Indicator

B3.1.1.1.4 - Study and talk about visual artworks produced or found in other African communities that reflect topical issues in those areas in Africa

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 3 (Week 3 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. 67

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners to
- observe and document daily occurrences (e.g. news on conflicts, road crashes, child abuse, diseases, floods, energy efficiency);
- identify how to protect the environment (e.g. by safe use of the roads by pedestrians, motor bike riders, drivers and passengers; prevention of communicable diseases and using energy efficiency gadgets);
- find ways to manage energy resources at home, in school and in the community;
- discuss topical issues of involving plastic waste, conflict, illegal migration, human trafficking, diseases, rising temperatures, drowning, road safety, etc. in other African countries and the rest of the world.