B5 Creative Arts · Term 2 Week 3: Planning, Making and Composing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B5.1.2.3.2 - Create own visual artworks based on own ideas, knowledge and understanding of artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in Africa

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and describe at least three features of the physical or social environment of a named African community that can inspire an artwork.
Sketch a simple comprehensive design (plan) that combines their own ideas with features of an African community’s environment.
Select and use at least two suitable materials, tools and production techniques to complete a personal artwork based on their design.
Explain in two or three sentences how their finished artwork reflects the physical or social environment of the community they chose.
Apply one finishing or decorating technique (painting, burnishing, spraying, or similar) to improve the quality of their completed artwork.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B5.1.2.3 - Demonstrate understanding of how to create expressive artworks based on own ideas by applying knowledge of media and methods of production based on other cultures in Africa, the visual artists, their culture, the environment and emerging topical issues
Indicator: B5.1.2.3.2 - Create own visual artworks based on own ideas, knowledge and understanding of artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in Africa
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 3 (Week 15 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. 74
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in the use and application of the elements and principles of art and design, media, methods and techniques freely in creative and expressive ways to produce own visual artworks based on own ideas and experiences;
- make own comprehensive designs based on reflections on the physical and social environment of some communities in Africa;
- follow own design to produce personal artwork by selecting and using available but suitable and appropriate: a) materials available (e.g. clay for modelling and casting; paper for drawing and painting; colour for painting and spraying; wood and other solid materials for carving; glue for bonding; yarn for weaving); b) tools and equipment e.g.
- brush for painting;
- scissors and cutting knives for cutting;
- spray diffuser for spraying
- chisel for carving
- spatulas for modelling
- craft tools for punching, perforating, etc.; c) manual/mechanical production methods/techniques (e.g. painting, printing, weaving, knotting, trimming, doodling, modelling, casting, carving, construction, assemblage, folding, quilling); d) select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical finishing and decorating techniques (e.g. firing, painting, burnishing, spraying).