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

B3.1.2.2.3 - Plan for making own artworks that represent visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Africa, by experimenting with available tools, materials and methods for creating visual artworks that reflect topical issues in those areas of Africa

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 72

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- explore malleable materials such as clay, papier mâché and plasticine to create artworks by pinching, slabbing, modelling, casting, carving, embossing, engraving, incising, scooping, luting, etc.;
- explore knitting, knotting, embroidering, sewing, stitching and weaving skills using available pliable materials from the environment such as cane, sisal, coir, jute, flax, etc.;
- discuss the visual artworks that reflect topical issues in other cultures in Africa.