B4 Creative Arts · Term 1, Week 7

Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Full lesson notes coming

Notes for this lesson are being prepared. The curriculum details below are complete and ready to use for your planning.

Curriculum details

Strand
Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand
Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard
B4.2.1.1 - 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
B4.2.1.1.3 - Study the performing artworks created of some Ghanaian performing artists that reflect the natural and manmade environments of some communities in Ghana
Suggested placement
Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 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. 31

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select artworks of some Ghanaian performing artists that show aspects of the natural and manmade environments;
- study the artworks in detail and describe the ideas that make up the artworks (e.g. the type of artwork, topic/purpose, ideas taken from natural and manmade things, instruments used, words/lyrics, etc.);
- assess the artworks by comparing their types, topics/themes, purpose, function, ideas expressed, etc.