Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.2.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least three visual artworks produced or found in communities outside their own region in Ghana.
Describe at least two features of visual artworks from other Ghanaian communities, such as shape, colour, pattern or material.
Brainstorm and share ideas about artworks from other communities during group discussion.
Make an outline drawing of a visual artwork found in another Ghanaian community.
Plan and describe their own artwork idea based on the history and culture of a chosen Ghanaian community.

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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: B2.1.2.2.1 - Generate ideas to make own artworks based on visual artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 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
- brainstorm on visual artworks that are produced or found in other parts of Ghana;
- share ideas about the features of the visual artworks produced or found in those communities in Ghana (e.g. clay pots, straw and cane baskets, woven and printed fabrics, leather products, wood carvings, glass and stone beads, jewellery);
- make outline drawings to define those visual artworks
- use ideas they have gathered about visual artworks made or found in other communities to plan own artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in the identified Ghanaian communities.