Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.2.1.1.4 - Explore own experiences and talk about how performing artworks produced or performed in the local community reflect local topical issues

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least three topical issues of concern in their local community and state one cause for each.
describe how a local music, dance or drama they have seen reflects one topical issue in their community.
discuss in small groups how performing artworks can express views about community problems.
improvise a short movement, song or drama scene that expresses a view on one local topical issue.
explain in their own words why performing artworks are useful for talking about community issues.

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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: B1.2.1.1.4 - Explore own experiences and talk about how performing artworks produced or performed in the local community reflect local topical issues
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 7 (Week 7 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. 7
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- reflect on conditions in the local community and identify topical issues (e.g. choked gutters, flooding, road safety) of concern to the people
- talk about the causes of these local issues (e.g. plastic materials, sand winning, buildings on water ways) in the local community
- share ideas on how the features of any local music, dance or drama reflect any topical issue experienced in the community
- explore how topical issues can promote the making of performing artworks
- use knowledge gained to improvise own performing artworks that express own views on topical issues experienced in the community.