Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.1.1.3 Reflect on own experiences and talk about how the visual artworks produced or found in the local community reflect the natural environment.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least three natural objects found in their surroundings (e.g. stone, wood, feather) and describe their features such as colour, shape, size, and texture.
Identify components of the natural environment (plants, rivers, animals, clouds) and explain how these appear in artworks found in their local community.
Collect and sort natural objects during an out-of-classroom walk, grouping them by features such as colour, size, smoothness, or roughness.
Discuss, with a partner or in a small group, how a local artwork (carving, weaving, painting, or pottery) shows things from the natural environment.
Contribute to a class “natural learning corner” by arranging collected natural objects and talking about what makes them beautiful or interesting.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (1.1)
Content standard: B1.1.1.1 - 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: B1.1.1.1.3 - Reflect on own experiences and talk about how the visual artworks produced or found in the local community reflect the natural environment
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 2 (Week 2 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. 3
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 (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 walk to observe natural objects in the surroundings and collect samples and/or take photographs;
- organise the sample of natural objects and study their features variety of colours, shapes, size, etc. observed in them;
- organise the sample of natural objects collected to create a 'natural learning corner' in the classroom;
- share ideas about the sample of natural objects
- develop ideas for drawing and colouring pictures, modelling
- consider the features of the things observed in the natural environment, e.g. beauty, size, smoothness, roughness, hardness, softness, how shiny, variety, repetition, weight, space, shape, form, line, colour, texture).