Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B1 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B1.1.1.1.4

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least two topical issues in their local community (for example, choked gutters, flooding, or road safety) and talk about what causes them.
Describe how a visual artwork found or produced in the local community reflects a topical issue of concern to the people.
Share ideas in small groups on how features of a local artwork (colours, shapes, symbols, or materials) connect to a topical issue they have experienced.
Make simple decisions about how they can improvise their own visual artwork to express their view on a topical issue in the community.
Present and explain their own improvised artwork, telling the class which topical issue it represents and why they chose it.

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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: B1.1.1.1.4 - Explore own experiences and talk about how the visual artworks produced or found in the local community reflect local topical issues
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 3 (Week 3 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. 4
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 the local topical issues (e.g. plastic materials, sand winning, buildings on water ways) in the local community
- share ideas on how the features of any local visual artwork reflect any topical issue experienced in the community
- explore how topical issues can influence the making of visual artworks
- use knowledge gained to make decisions for improvising own visual artworks that express their views of topical issues experienced in the community.