Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.1.2.3.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least two African countries and describe one cultural practice or product from each that inspires visual art.
Select appropriate available tools and materials for creating a functional artwork that reflects another African culture.
Create a functional visual artwork (e.g. a simple mask, decorated pot, or printed fabric) using methods such as modelling, painting, or printing.
Explain in one or two sentences how their finished artwork reflects the history or culture of the chosen African community.
Work collaboratively in groups to share tools, materials and ideas while making their artworks.

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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: B3.1.2.3.1 - Create own functional visual artworks by skilfully using available visual arts tools, material and methods to express own views of visual artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in other African communities
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 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:
- Create own artworks based on the history and culture of the people from other countries in Africa (e.g. beliefs, customs, religion, festivals, rites of passage);
- Create own artworks based on what is produced in other countries in Africa (e.g. masks, sculptures, paintings, pottery wares, woven, printed and dyed fabrics; leather products; beads).