Planning, Making and Composing · B4 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.2.2.2.3 - Experiment with available performing arts media and techniques to create performing artworks based on own views, knowledge and understanding of topical issues in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three topical issues in Ghana (such as road safety, plastic waste, water pollution, or low rainfall due to climate change) and explain why each is important to their community.
Explore their local environment to select available instruments, sounds, rhythms, movement patterns, or words that can be used to express views about a chosen topical issue.
Experiment with at least two different performing arts media (music, dance, drama, or poetry) to create a short piece based on one topical issue in Ghana.
Perform their experimental piece for peers and give and receive constructive feedback during peer review.
Explain in their own words how their chosen performing arts media and techniques communicate their views on the topical issue.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B4.2.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks based on the history, culture, environment and topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B4.2.2.2.3 - Experiment with available performing arts media and techniques to create performing artworks based on own views, knowledge and understanding of topical issues in Ghana
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 4-6), 2019, p. 37
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- explore the local environment to select available instruments, sounds, rhythms, movement patterns, etc. that are suitable for composing and performing music, dance, drama, poems, etc.;
- experiment with the available instruments, sounds, movement patterns, etc. to perform some of the compositions of the Ghanaian artists studied that reflect topical issues of national concern in Ghana such as road safety, plastic waste, water pollution, low rainfall due to climate change, migration of youth, slums in cities;
- discuss and share their experiences for peer review.