Thinking and Exploring Ideas · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.2.1.1.3 - Study and talk about performing artworks produced or performed in other African communities that reflect the natural and manmade environments in those areas in Africa

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least three performing artworks from other African communities that reflect natural or manmade environments.
describe the natural and manmade environments shown or referred to in performing artworks from other African communities.
talk about how dancers, drummers and storytellers use movement, sound and words to show features like forests, rivers, markets and roads.
compare the environments shown in African performing artworks with the environments around their own school and community.
use accurate words such as rugged, smooth, clean, polluted, waving and crawling when describing what they see and hear in performing artworks.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B3.2.1.1 - 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: B3.2.1.1.3 - Study and talk about performing artworks produced or performed in other African communities that reflect the natural and manmade environments in those areas in Africa
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. 69
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- engage in short out-of-the-classroom trips and environmental walks; watch documentaries;
- talk about the natural and manmade environments (e.g. forests, deserts, mountains, housing, dams, plants, animals, rivers, recreational centres, roads, bridges, markets, shopping malls);
- observe and assess the natural and manmade environments in respect of the elements and principles of design (e.g. forests, deserts, mountains, housing, dams, animals, birds, recreational centres, roads, bridges, markets, shopping malls, drains, highlands, beaches, sanitation);
- identify the nature and characteristics of the things observed in the natural and manmade environments (e.g. rugged, undulating, smooth, rough, clean, polluted, waving, crawling).