Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.2.2.3.2 - Create own artworks using available instruments, resources and techniques to express own views about performing artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other African communities

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify and name examples of natural and manmade environments in other African communities as seen in performing artworks.
select available instruments and resources (such as drums, rattles, bottles, sticks, cloth) suitable for expressing views about natural and manmade environments.
create a short rhythmic pattern or movement sequence that represents either a natural or a manmade environment in an African community.
perform their created artwork for peers and explain the view they are expressing about the environment chosen.
give simple feedback to peers on how well their performance reflects the chosen environment.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B3.2.2.3 - 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: B3.2.2.3.2 - Create own artworks using available instruments, resources and techniques to express own views about performing artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other African communities
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 5 (Week 17 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. 77
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to;
- use available instruments, resources and techniques create own knowledge and understanding of the natural and manmade environment (e.g. roads, vegetation, recreational parks, plants, animals, birds, rivers);
- use available instruments, elements, resources and techniques for public education and entertainment.