Planning, Making and Composing · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.2.3.1 - Create own artworks from imagination using available tools, materials and methods to represent visual artworks produced or found in the local community that reflect the history and culture or way of life of the people

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Select at least two available tools and materials suitable for making a visual artwork that reflects a local cultural object or symbol.
Describe in one or two sentences what a chosen local artwork (such as a stool or symbol) represents about the history or way of life of the people.
Create an original drawing, doodle, pattern or modelled piece from imagination that represents a chosen local cultural object or symbol.
Explain how the finished artwork reflects the culture or history of the local community during a brief class presentation.
Handle tools and materials safely and responsibly while working on the artwork.

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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: B1.1.2.3.1 - Create own artworks from imagination using available tools, materials and methods to represent visual artworks produced or found in the local community that reflect the history and culture or way of life of the people
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 2 (Week 14 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. 12
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- carefully select and use available tools, materials and methods of production to make own visual artworks such as drawing, doodling, patterns and modelling that reflect the history and culture of the people
- create useful artworks that reflects the history and culture of the local community, such as stools and symbols.