B6 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 10: Planning, Making and Composing

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.1.2.2.2 - Brainstorm and generate designs for creating own visual artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in the world.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and describe at least three physical or social features of a community in the world studied (e.g. the floating houses of Ganvie in Benin, the terraced rice fields of the Philippines, or the street art of Valparaiso in Chile).
Brainstorm in groups and generate at least four design ideas based on the physical and social environments of chosen world communities.
Produce analytical sketches of at least two structures or forms that interest them from the communities studied.
Develop a comprehensive (comp) sketch or final design that clearly reflects a chosen community’s physical or social environment.
Present their designs for peer review and use the feedback received to improve their final design.

This lesson builds on Week 10’s earlier work (B6.1.2.2.1) where learners experimented with media and methods based on international artists. It stops short of B6.1.2.2.3 (topical world issues) and later slots that focus on actually creating the final artworks. This week is for planning, brainstorming and designing only.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B6.1.2.2 - 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: B6.1.2.2.2 - Brainstorm and generate designs for creating own visual artworks that reflect the physical and social environments of some communities in the world
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 103
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- study the ideas, forms and structures that constitute the physical and social environments of some communities in the world;
- make analytical study (sketches) of the ideas, forms or structures that interest them;
- develop images from the ideas, forms and structures studied;
- make comprehensive (comp) sketches or final designs for reproduction in artworks;
- present designs for peer review;
- use the ideas or feedback from the peer review to improve upon the designs for reproduction;
- experiment with available materials and tools to reproduce the comp (e.g.
- clay, plasticine, papier mâché (paper pulp) etc. for modelling and casting;
- straw, yarn, paper etc. for weaving;
- odds and ends for constructing and assembling;
- brushes and paint for painting;
- craft tools for perforating, shaping and punching;
- folding and shaping paper to make origami and quilling;
- spatula and scooping tools for modelling;
- needle for sewing, etc.;
- discuss, compare and share their experiences through jury and peer review.