Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.3.3

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and discuss at least two topical issues affecting communities in other parts of Ghana (such as plastic waste or road safety) using artworks as a starting point.
Choose a topical issue from another Ghanaian community and sketch a simple plan for an artwork that expresses their own view about it.
Create a finished visual artwork (drawing, painting, or modelled piece) using available materials that clearly communicates the chosen topical issue.
Explain orally how the elements of art (such as colour, line, and shape) were used in their own work to express meaning.
Respond respectfully to peers’ artworks by describing what they see and the message they think the artist is communicating.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B2.1.2.3 - 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 as well as the visual artists, their culture, the environment and emerging topical issues
Indicator: B2.1.2.3.3 - Create own visual artworks to express own views, knowledge and understanding of topical issues in other Ghanaian communities
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. 44
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- generate ideas from visual artworks that reflect topical issues in other parts of Ghana
- create artworks that reflect the topical issues (e.g. road safety campaigns, plastic waste problems) in other communities in Ghana.
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 and spraying, wood and other solid materials for carving);
- select and use suitable and appropriate tools and equipment available (e.g. brush for painting, scissors and cutting knives for cutting, spray diffuser for spraying);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical production methods/techniques (e.g. painting, printing, weaving, knotting, folding, doodling, modelling, casting, carving, construction);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical finishing and decorating techniques (e.g. firing, painting, burnishing, spraying);
- demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in the use and application of the elements and principles of art and design, media, methods and techniques freely in creative and expressive ways to produce own artworks based on own ideas and experiences.
Note: produce own artworks by drawing, doodling, spraying, blowing, colouring, printing, lettering, patternmaking, modelling, casting, carving, knotting, weaving, sewing, cutting, folding, construction and assembling using own sketches developed from memory.