Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.1.2.2.2

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three natural and three manmade materials from their environment that can be used to create pictorial artworks
Experiment with at least two different techniques (such as cutting, arranging, gluing, painting, or blowing) to determine which materials and methods work best for a chosen subject
Plan and compose a pictorial artwork with a clear background, image ground, and foreground using collected materials from natural and manmade sources
Discuss their completed artwork and describe how it represents a natural or manmade environment from another African community
Explain at least two decisions they made about materials or techniques and justify why those choices were suitable for their artwork

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B3.1.2.2 - 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, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B3.1.2.2.2 - Plan to create own artworks that represent visual artworks produced or found in other communities in Africa, by experimenting with available tools, materials and methods for creating artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in those areas in Africa
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 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. 71
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- experiment with available tools, materials, resources and techniques based on an assigned task to determine their nature and suitability for designing and making visual artworks;
- cut and organise various coloured objects from natural and manmade sources (e.g. shells, sand, seeds, bamboo twigs, fibres, fabric, paper, beads, yarns) to create pictorial images having backgrounds, image grounds and foregrounds;
- enhance the surface appearance of objects by using a combination of skills such as scribbling, shading, painting, marbling, spraying, blowing, glazing, embossing, etc.;
- discuss the visual artworks created that reflect natural and manmade environments in other African cultures.