Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Indicator: B3.1.2.3.2

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify natural and manmade environmental features from other African communities (such as animals, birds, rivers and roads) that can inspire functional visual artworks
Select appropriate available tools and materials for creating a functional artwork based on a chosen environmental idea
Create a functional visual artwork (such as a decorated container, wall hanging or mat) that expresses their own view of a natural or manmade environment in another African community
Explain how the materials, tools and methods they used helped them express their idea clearly
Assess their own and peers’ finished works using simple criteria of skill, creativity and usefulness

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Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B3.1.2.3 - 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: B3.1.2.3.2 - Create own functional visual artworks by skilfully using available visual arts tools, material and methods to express own view about visual artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other African communities
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. 75
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Learners are to:
- create own visual artworks based on ideas derived from the natural and manmade environments (e.g. roads, animals, birds, rivers)