B6 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 7: Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.2.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for creating own performing artworks based on the physical and social environments of some communities in the world.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify and list at least three features of the physical environment and three features of the social environment of one community studied in the previous lesson;
describe how the physical environment (landscape, climate, buildings) and social environment (occupations, festivals, daily life) influence how people in that community sing, dance and act;
select one object, activity or scene from a community’s physical or social environment that interests them most and justify their choice;
create a simple concept note (a short written or drawn plan) that states their chosen idea and what kind of performing artwork they want to make from it;
present their concept note to peers and respond to feedback by adjusting or refining their idea.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B6.2.1.1 - 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: B6.2.1.1.4 - Generate own ideas for creating own performing artworks based on the physical and social environments of some communities in the world
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 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. 101
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 concept notes;
- present and share selected ideas using the prepared concept notes;
- reflect and generate ideas from the concept notes into poems, songs, dance patterns and drama.