Appreciating and Appraising · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.4.6.1 - Agree on guidelines for viewing visual artworks and for expressing own feelings and thoughts about own and others’ displayed artworks

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Suggest at least three rules or guidelines for how to look at and talk about artworks in the classroom gallery.
Agree as a class on a simple set of guidelines for viewing displayed artworks and write or draw them on a chart.
Use the agreed guidelines to look carefully at their own artwork and the artwork of a classmate.
Express their feelings and thoughts about a displayed artwork using sentence starters such as “I see…”, “I feel…”, and “I think…” based on the agreed guidelines.
Show respect for others’ work by using kind and helpful words when talking about artworks.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (1.4)
Content standard: B2.1.4.6 - Demonstrate understanding of how to analyse, appreciate, appraise/critique and present report on own works and that of others based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) and, the recordings and reports
Indicator: B2.1.4.6.1 - Agree on guidelines for viewing visual artworks and for expressing own feelings and thoughts about own and others' displayed artworks
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 6 (Week 30 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 1-3), 2019, p. 56
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree on guidelines for viewing, examining and expressing own views about the displayed visual artworks;
- agree on how to use the agreed guidelines to express own feelings and thoughts about the displayed artworks.