B4 Creative Arts · Term 1, Week 4

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
B4.1.1.1.5 - Develop ideas by studying the artworks of some Ghanaian visual artists that reflect topical issues in Ghana
Suggested placement
Term 1, Week 4 (Week 4 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. 29

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select works of Ghanaian visual artists that exhibit current topical issues of national concern (e.g. road safety, plastic waste, water pollution, climate change, migration of youth);
- share ideas on how the selected artworks express issues of national concern;
- discuss the artworks by their type, topic/theme, materials used, style of artist, etc.