Planning, Making and Composing

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)

Content standard

B3.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks, based on the history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities

Indicator

B3.1.2.2.1 - Plan own artworks that represent visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Africa, by making decisions on the tools, materials and methods the visual artists used to create artworks that reflect the people, their history and their way of life in those areas in Africa

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 8 (Week 8 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. 71

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- examine the history and culture of the people from other countries in Africa(beliefs, customs, religion, festivals, rites of passage, chieftaincy, symbols of authority) as a guide;
- talk about artworks produced/performed in Africa (e.g. masks, beads sculptures, paintings, pottery wares, woven baskets and leather products);
- identify and experiment with the tools, materials and methods of production the artists use;
- organise and develop ideas by sketching own creative ideas and concepts to make own visual artworks such as painting; collage; mosaic; montage, prints, patterns, letter collé, greeting cards, posters, cast, carved and modelled works, knitted, stitched, constructed, quilled (origami) and assembled stabiles, etc.