Planning, Making and Composing · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.2.2.4 - Make firm decisions on the relevant performing arts instruments, resources and methods for making own artworks that will reflect topical issues in the local community

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

recall at least three topical issues currently affecting people in their local community
identify performing arts instruments and resources available in their school and community that can be used to create artworks about these issues
select appropriate instruments, resources and methods for an artwork they plan to make, giving at least one reason for each choice
state in their own words what artwork they plan to create to reflect a chosen topical issue
make firm choices and defend them by explaining why their chosen instruments and methods are suitable for their planned artwork

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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: B1.2.2.2.4 - Make firm decisions on the relevant performing arts instruments, resources and methods for making own artworks that will reflect topical issues in 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 from memory what current issues are of concern to people in the local community
- recall the selection of local performing artworks that reflect these topical issues in the local community.
- define the artworks they plan to make that will reflect these local topical issues.