B4 Creative Arts · Term 1, Week 3

Thinking and Exploring Ideas

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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
B4.1.1.1.4 - Make decisions for designing and creating own visual artworks that will reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana
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 4-6), 2019, p. 28

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- go on out-of-the-classroom walk to observe the natural and manmade surroundings;
- collect samples of natural and manmade objects, take photographs, or make videos of objects that interest them;
- examine the samples/pictures for their shapes, texture, colours, size, lines, etc. and gather ideas on artworks suggested;
- reflect on the shapes, texture, colour, suggestions of movement, pattern, rhythm, etc. to generate ideas for designing and making own artworks.