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

B3.1.2.2.2 - Plan to create own artworks that represent visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Africa, by experimenting with available tools, materials and methods for creating artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in those areas in Africa

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 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:
- experiment with available tools, materials, resources and techniques based on an assigned task to determine their nature and suitability for designing and making visual artworks;
- cut and organise various coloured objects from natural and manmade sources (e.g. shells, sand, seeds, bamboo twigs, fibres, fabric, paper, beads, yarns) to create pictorial images having backgrounds, image grounds and foregrounds;
- enhance the surface appearance of objects by using a combination of skills such as scribbling, shading, painting, marbling, spraying, blowing, glazing, embossing, etc.;
- discuss the visual artworks created that reflect natural and manmade environments in other African cultures.