Planning, Making and Composing · B4 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.1.2.3.1 - Create own artworks using available visual arts media and methods to express own views, knowledge and understanding of the history and culture of the people of Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three aspects of Ghanaian history and culture (for example, ceremonies, festivals, chieftaincy, traditional dress, folklore) that can serve as ideas for an artwork.
Select one cultural idea and plan a simple design for an artwork, listing the materials and tools needed.
Create a finished artwork using available media such as modelling clay, paper, fabric or found objects, applying at least one appropriate technique (pinching, slabbing, folding, weaving, or assembling).
Talk about their own finished artwork in a class jury session, explaining what cultural idea it expresses and how they made it.
Give respectful comments and questions about a classmate’s artwork during the jury discussion.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B4.1.2.3 - 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 current topical issues of concern in Africa
Indicator: B4.1.2.3.1 - Create own artworks using available visual arts media and methods to express own views, knowledge and understanding of the history and culture of the people of Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 2 (Week 14 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. 38
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- select ideas from the history and culture of the people to come out with own designs
- select and use available materials and tools and apply appropriate skills and techniques to make artworks based on their own designs. For example:
- modelling with clay, plasticine, papier mâché (paper pulp) etc. to create a ceremonial pot, image of an ancestor etc. by pinching, slabbing, casting or modelling
- weaving a tapestry, stole, fringe or tassel for decoration, wall hanging, etc.
- creating an art form by constructing and assembling everyday materials such as containers: plastic bottles, packages etc. to create a decorative piece, etc.
- drawing and painting images to honour personalities, for interior decoration, etc.
- using paper/metal sheets to create forms in origami, quilling or filigree by punching, perforating, folding, trimming, etc.
- artworks from fabric and leather by dyeing, sewing, printing, embossing, etc.
- discuss and share their experiences through jury.