Planning, Making and Composing · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.2.3.3 - Create own visual artworks to express own views, knowledge and understanding of topical issues in the local community

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least two topical issues in their local community that can be shown in a drawing.
Choose suitable materials (paper, pencil, crayons, paint) and tools (brush, scissors) for making their artwork.
Create a drawing or painting that clearly shows one topical issue from their community.
Add a short caption or label to their artwork to explain what the picture is about.
Present their completed artwork to the class and explain the message it carries.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B1.1.2.3 - Demonstrate understanding of how to create expressive artworks based on own ideas by applying knowledge of media and methods of production to reflect other cultures in Africa, the visual artists, their culture, the environment and emerging topical issues
Indicator: B1.1.2.3.3 - Create own visual artworks to express own views, knowledge and understanding of topical issues in the local community
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 4 (Week 16 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. 13
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- make artworks to reflect some topical issues in the local community
- make own drawings and colour them to educate the local community on those topical issues.
Suggested process/steps:
- select and use suitable and appropriate materials available (e.g. clay for modelling and casting; paper for drawing and painting; colour for painting; glue for bonding);
- select and use suitable and appropriate tools and equipment available (e.g. brush for painting; scissors and cutting knives for cutting);
- select and use suitable and appropriate methods of production (e.g. painting, printing, weaving, knotting, trimming, doodling, modelling, casting, carving, construction, assemblage, folding, quilling);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical finishing and decorating techniques (e.g. firing, painting, burnishing, spraying).
Note: produce own artworks by drawing, doodling, spraying, blowing, colouring, printing, lettering, patternmaking, modelling, casting, carving, weaving, sewing, cutting, folding.