Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)

Content standard

B4.1.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions about the people based on their history and culture, the environment and topical local/national/global issues

Indicator

B4.1.1.1.2 - Study and talk about visual artworks created by selected Ghanaian visual artists to generate ideas for designing and making own visual artworks

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 1 (Week 1 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 4-6), 2019, p. 27

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select an artwork of one of the visual artists studied;
- think about the topic or purpose of that artwork. For example, flower pots/vases are made to hold flowers that decorate or beautify our surroundings;
- examine the materials and production methods the artist used to design and make the selected visual artwork being studied. For example, a) The pot is made out of clay; b) The methods used are pinching/slabbing/throwing; c) The pot is decorated with Adinkra symbols through embossing or incision; d) The pot is fired.
- generate ideas for making own artworks to reflect the history and culture of the people of Ghana.