Planning, Making and Composing

Curriculum details

Strand

Visual Arts (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)

Content standard

B4.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks based on the history, culture, environment and topical local/national/global issues of other communities

Indicator

B4.1.2.2.1 - Experiment with available visual arts media and methods to create artworks that express own views, knowledge and understanding of visual artworks that reflect the history and culture of the people in Ghana

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 4-6), 2019, p. 34

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

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- explore the local environment to select available materials and tools that are suitable for making visual artworks;
- practice the use of various visual arts media (e.g. tools, materials) using different methods of art making to try out how they work and make artworks (e.g. model with clay, weave with straw and paper, make prints with fingers and leaves);
- assemble their test results and share their experiences through open discussion;
- use available materials in the environment to make their own artworks based on ideas gathered from the visual artworks studied;
- discuss and compare their artworks to the visual artworks studied.