Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.1.1.3 - Reflect on own experiences and talk about how the performing artworks produced or performed in the local community reflect the natural environment

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and name at least five natural objects from their local environment (such as stone, wood, feather, leaf, shell) from memory or during a short guided walk.
Describe the features of natural objects they collect in simple terms, using words like colour, shape, size, rough, smooth, heavy, light and the sounds they make.
Talk about how at least two performing artworks in their local community (for example, a drumming group, a dance troupe, or a storytelling performance) make use of things from nature.
Use a collected natural object to improvise a simple sound or movement that imitates something in nature, such as wind, rain, or a bird.
Contribute one idea to a class discussion about why artists and performers in the community use natural things in their work.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B1.2.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions on the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B1.2.1.1.3 - Reflect on own experiences and talk about how the performing artworks produced or performed in the local community reflect the natural environment
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 6 (Week 6 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. 6
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- show knowledge about natural things or objects (e.g. stone, wood, feather);
- describe what makes up the natural environment (e.g. plants, rivers, animals, clouds). Where possible, use ICT devices to watch videos on the natural environment;
- take out-of-classroom walks to observe natural things and objects in the local surroundings and collect samples and/or take photographs or make videos of the natural environment
- organise samples of natural objects collected to create a 'natural learning corner' in the classroom
- observe the natural objects carefully and talk about their features (e.g. colour, shape, size, smoothness, roughness, weight, sound they make, movements)
- share ideas about how any of the natural objects collected can be used to produce or perform music, dance or drama in the local community
- use ideas gained to improvise own performing artworks that express knowledge of the natural environment.