Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.1.1.3 - Explore own experiences to talk about performing artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify and name at least three natural features (e.g. rivers, plants, animals) and three manmade features (e.g. buildings, roads, markets, bridges) found in other communities in Ghana.
Observe and describe sounds from the natural and manmade environment (e.g. birds, waves, vehicles, church bells) using words, notes or simple recordings.
Discuss in small groups the characteristics of things observed, such as how animals move (walking, hopping, crawling) and how objects sound (rattling, tapping, humming).
Create a short song, poem or dance movement inspired by the sounds and sights of the natural and manmade environments.
Present their created performing artwork to the class and explain what part of the environment inspired it.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B2.2.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions about the people, based on their history and culture, the environment and the topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B2.2.1.1.3 - Explore own experiences to talk about performing artworks that reflect the natural and manmade environments in other communities in Ghana
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. 38
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- talk about the natural and manmade environments (e.g. plants, animals, rivers, buildings, recreational centres, roads, bridges, markets, shopping malls);
- engage in out-of-classroom walks to observe the surroundings and assess the state of the natural and built environment for making performing artworks;
- document the things found in the natural environment (e.g. movement and sounds made by vehicles, animals, birds, insects, waves, waterfalls, church bells and call to worship) by writing notes, or by audio or video recordings of sounds
- collect samples of objects and things found in the surroundings (e.g. bottles, packaging, bottle tops, stones, shells, twigs, fibre, straw, flowers) to create a 'learning corner' in the classroom
- discuss the characteristics of the things observed in the natural and manmade environments (e.g. slow or fast movement of crawling, running, walking, hopping, swinging, rolling, and jumping animals; rattling fruit pods);
- find concepts from the written notes or recordings for composing own songs, stories or poems, and choreographing dance movements based on the natural and manmade environments.