Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.1.2.3.3

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three topical issues currently affecting communities in Africa, such as illegal mining (galamsey), deforestation, plastic waste pollution, or poor sanitation.
Select one topical issue and explain how a functional artwork can educate or sensitise the public about it.
Choose suitable available materials, tools, and methods to create a functional visual artwork that expresses their own views on the chosen issue.
Produce a completed 2-Dimensional or 3-Dimensional functional artwork using appropriate techniques and finishing methods.
Present their artwork to the class, explaining the message behind it and the choices they made in materials and methods.

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Curriculum details

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: B3.1.2.3.3 - Create own functional visual artworks using available materials, tools and methods to express own views that reflect topical issues in Africa
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. 75
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select ideas from topical issues in Africa and come out with own design concepts to educate or sensitise he public on the importance or dangers of the issues.
Suggested Process/Steps
- select and use suitable and appropriate materials available (e.g. clay for modelling and casting, paper for drawing and painting, colour for painting and spraying, wood and other solid materials for carving, glue for bonding, yarn for weaving)
- select and use suitable and appropriate tools and equipment available (e.g. brush for painting; scissors and cutting knives for cutting; spray diffuser for spraying);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical production methods/techniques (e.g. painting, printing, weaving, knotting, trimming, doodling, modelling, casting, carving, construction, assemblage, folding, quilling);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical finishing and decorating techniques (e.g. firing, painting, burnishing, spraying);
- demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in the use and application of the elements and principles of art and design, media, methods and techniques freely in creative and expressive ways to produce own 2-Dimensional and 3- Dimensional artworks based on own ideas and experiences.
Note: produce own artworks by drawing, doodling, spraying, blowing, colouring, printing, lettering, patternmaking, modelling, casting, carving, construction and assembling.