B6 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 3: Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.1.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for designing and creating own visual artworks based on the physical and social environments of some communities in the world

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three physical features and three social features of a chosen community in the world from pictures or videos.
Create a spidergram that organises objects and ideas drawn from the physical and social environment of a chosen community.
Select one object or idea from the spidergram that they find interesting and explain what artwork they would like to make from it.
Transform their selected idea into at least two thumbnail sketches showing possible compositions for an artwork.
Present and share their spidergram and thumbnail sketches with a partner or small group, giving and receiving one piece of feedback.

Note: Learners have already studied international artists and their artworks in Weeks 1 and 2. This week, they move from studying to generating their own ideas. The focus is on thinking and planning, not on producing a finished, polished artwork.

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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: B6.1.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for designing and creating own visual artworks based on the physical and social environments of some communities in the world
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 3 (Week 3 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. 98
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- use OERs to study the physical and social environments of some communities in the world and select objects/ideas that interest them and what they want to do using spidergrams.

Figure from the b6 creative arts curriculum, printed page 98

- present and share selected ideas using the prepared spidergrams.
- reflect and generate ideas from the spidergrams into 'thumbnail' sketches.