Planning, Making and Composing · B4 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B4.1.2.2.1 - Experiment with available visual arts media and methods to create artworks that express own views, knowledge and understanding of visual artworks that reflect the history and culture of the people in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Explore the school compound and its surroundings to identify at least five available materials and tools suitable for making visual artworks.
Demonstrate at least two different art-making methods (such as modelling with clay, weaving with straw or paper, or printing with fingers and leaves) using available materials.
Create one original artwork that expresses their own understanding of a Ghanaian cultural or historical subject, using the materials and methods they have experimented with.
Share their experimental results and finished artwork through a short oral presentation, describing the materials used, the method chosen, and the cultural idea the artwork expresses.
Compare their own artwork with a studied example of Ghanaian visual art, noting at least one similarity and one difference.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B4.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks based on the history, culture, environment and topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B4.1.2.2.1 - Experiment with available visual arts media and methods to create artworks that express own views, knowledge and understanding of visual artworks that reflect the history and culture of the people in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 34
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 materials and tools that are suitable for making visual artworks;
- practice the use of various visual arts media (e.g. tools, materials) using different methods of art making to try out how they work and make artworks (e.g. model with clay, weave with straw and paper, make prints with fingers and leaves);
- assemble their test results and share their experiences through open discussion;
- use available materials in the environment to make their own artworks based on ideas gathered from the visual artworks studied;
- discuss and compare their artworks to the visual artworks studied.