Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.2.2 - Make decisions to create own artworks from imagination, based on visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three visual artworks from other Ghanaian communities and describe their key features (colours, patterns, shapes, or materials used).
Make at least two decisions about what to create, choosing the subject, materials, and colours for their own artwork based on what they have studied.
Explain in one or two sentences why they chose specific materials and colours for their artwork.
Produce a simple completed artwork from imagination that shows clear influence from an artwork found in another Ghanaian community.
Share their finished work with a partner and state one thing they decided to do differently from the original artwork they studied.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B2.1.2.2 - 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 as well as the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B2.1.2.2.2 - Make decisions to create own artworks from imagination, based on visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 8 (Week 8 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. 40
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- experiment with carefully selected materials and tools to learn about their usefulness for designing and making visual artworks;
- explore and experiment with available tools, materials, resources and techniques to plan for making specific artworks that represent visual artworks made in other Ghanaian communities.