B6 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 1: Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.1.1.1.2 - Study how the artworks of the international visual artists studied reflect the history and culture of some communities in the world and generate own ideas for creating own artworks

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Select one artwork by an international visual artist studied in the previous lesson and state the community and culture it reflects.
Identify and list at least three materials, tools, or methods the artist used in creating the selected artwork.
Explain in one or two sentences how the theme or purpose of a selected artwork connects to the history or culture of its community.
Generate and sketch at least two original ideas for their own artwork that reflect the history and culture of a community, using at least one technique observed from the international artist studied.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)
Content standard: B6.1.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions on the people based on their history and culture, the environment and topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B6.1.1.1.2 - Study how the artworks of the international visual artists studied reflect the history and culture of some communities in the world and generate own ideas for creating own artworks
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 1 (Week 1 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. 96
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select the work of any of the international artists studied;
- reflect on the themes or purposes of the works;
- make an analytical study of artworks to identify the materials, tools, equipment, methods and styles used in designing and making them;
- use the experience gained to generate ideas for own artworks that will reflect the history and culture of some communities in the world.