Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.3.1 - Create own visual artworks using available visual arts media and methods to represent artworks that reflect the history and culture or way of life of people in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Discuss at least three features of the history and culture of a Ghanaian community outside their own (such as occupation, staple food, festivals or customs).
Identify and name at least four types of artworks found among people in other parts of Ghana (for example, clay pots, straw baskets, woven fabrics, beads or wood carvings).
Choose one community in Ghana and one artwork type associated with that community to base their own creation on.
Create an original visual artwork using available materials that reflects the culture or way of life of a chosen Ghanaian community.
Explain in one or two sentences how their finished artwork represents the culture of the community they chose.

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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: B2.1.2.3.1 - Create own visual artworks using available visual arts media and methods to represent artworks that reflect the history and culture or way of life of people in other communities in Ghana
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. 44
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- discuss the history and culture of the people (e.g. their occupation, staple food, religion, festivals, customs);
- identify the artworks found among the people in other parts of Ghana (e.g. clay pots, straw baskets, woven/printed and dyed fabrics, leather products, wood carvings, glass and stone beads, jewellery);
- create own artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in other parts of Ghana.