Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.2.2.2.3

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least two topical issues affecting communities in other parts of Africa that can be expressed through performing arts, such as unemployment, safe road practices, energy efficiency, or plastic waste.
Experiment with available instruments, sounds, rhythms, and movement patterns to explore how different combinations can express a chosen topical issue.
Select and organise available instruments, sounds, and movements into a short planned performance outline that represents a performing artwork from another African community.
Explain, in one or two sentences, how their planned performance reflects a specific topical issue in an African community.
Present their performance plan to peers and give simple, kind feedback on classmates’ plans.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B3.2.2.2 - 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: B3.2.2.2.3 - Plan for making own artworks that represent performing artworks produced or found in other communities in Africa, by experimenting with available instruments, resources and techniques for producing artworks that reflect topical issues in those areas in Africa
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 12 (Week 12 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. 74
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- explore available instruments, equipment, sounds, rhythms and movement patterns that are good for composing and performing music, dance, drama, etc.;
- experiment with the available instruments, equipment, sounds, movement etc. to perform some of the compositions from other parts of Africa that reflect topical issues such as unemployment, safe road practices, energy efficiency and conservation, plastic waste.