Planning, Making and Composing · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.2.2.3

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three visual art making tools, materials and methods used by artists in their local community.
Sort pictures or examples of the natural environment (e.g., trees, rivers, rocks) and the man-made environment (e.g., buildings, bridges, roads) found in their community.
Draw a simple pencil or crayon outline of a scene from their community that shows at least one natural feature and one man-made feature.
Explain in one or two sentences how the tools and materials they chose helped them make their drawing.
Use their outline as a plan for an artwork they will complete in a later lesson.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B1.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks, based on the history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B1.1.2.2.3 - Explore available means of using relevant visual arts making tools, materials and methods to make own artworks that reflect the natural and man-made environments of the local community
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 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. 9
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- recall ideas gathered on the making and use of visual artworks that are produced or found in the local community;
- refine own ideas on visual art making tools, materials and methods used by the local artists;
- organise and develop own ideas, knowledge an understanding of what makes up the natural and man-made environment;
- make pencil/crayon outlines to define the artworks they plan to make to reflect the natural and man-made environments.