Planning, Making and Composing · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.2.2.3

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

List at least two natural features and two manmade features of their local community that can inspire performing arts works
Name at least three instruments or resources used by local performing artists in their community
Sort a given set of instruments and resources into “natural” and “manmade” categories
Explain in one or two simple sentences how a chosen local instrument or resource can be used in a dance, song, or drama about their community
Draw or describe a simple plan for a short performance that reflects one natural or manmade feature of their community

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B1.2.2.2 - 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: B1.2.2.2.3 - Explore available means of using relevant performing arts instruments, resources and methods to create own artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments of the local community
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 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. 11
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 the music, dance and drama artworks in the local community
- refine own ideas on the instruments, resources and methods used by local performing artists
- organise and develop own ideas on what makes up the natural and manmade environments
- plan for making own performing artworks that will reflect the natural and manmade environments of the local community.