Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.3.2 - Create own artworks using available visual arts media and methods to represent artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least three examples of natural environment features (vegetation, animals, birds, rivers, clouds) and three examples of manmade environment features (bridges, buildings, roads, market stalls) found in other communities in Ghana.
generate at least two original ideas for artworks based on the natural or manmade environment of a specific Ghanaian community they have seen in pictures or heard about.
create a simple visual artwork using available media (crayons, coloured pencils, paint, paper, or found materials) that clearly shows at least one natural and one manmade feature from a Ghanaian community.
explain in one or two sentences the choices they made in their artwork, stating which community it represents and why they chose those features.
respond respectfully to peers’ artwork by saying one thing they admire about a classmate’s work.

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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: B2.1.2.3.2 - Create own artworks using available visual arts media and methods to represent artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 3 (Week 15 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 the natural and manmade environments (e.g. vegetation, animals, birds, rivers, bridges, clouds);
- create own visual artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana.