B5 Creative Arts · Term 2 Week 1: Planning, Making and Composing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.2.2.2.2 - Experiment with available relevant performing arts media and techniques to create own performing artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in Africa

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Explore the school and home environment to identify at least five available media (instruments, equipment, sounds, rhythms, movement patterns) suitable for composing performing artworks.
Demonstrate at least three experimental techniques for manipulating sounds, rhythms, and movements to reflect the physical environment (e.g., sea, forest, savannah) of a selected African community.
Create a short original performance piece (lasting 1 to 2 minutes) that combines sound, movement, or drama to reflect the social environment (e.g., market days, festivals, communal labour) of a chosen African community.
Perform the created piece for peers and share feedback through a simple peer review.
Describe in one or two sentences how the media and techniques chosen connect to the physical or social environment of the community represented.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B5.2.2.2 - 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: B5.2.2.2.2 - Experiment with available relevant performing arts media and techniques to create own performing artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in Africa
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 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. 71
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 instruments, equipment, sounds, melody, rhythms, movement patterns that are good for composing/arranging and performing music, dance, drama, poems, appellations, etc.;
- experiment with the available instruments, equipment, sounds, movement patterns, melody etc. to perform some of the compositions of the Ghanaian artists studied that reflect the physical and social environment of some communities in Africa;
- discuss and share their experiences through peer review.