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1.1 Introduction to Creative Arts and Sports

Creative Arts and Sports · Grade 7 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Meaning of Creative Arts and Sports as a learning area
  • Categories: Visual Arts, Music and dance, Drama and film, Sports
  • Relationships among the categories: functions, execution, visual, presentation, competition, audience, attire, themes, team effort
  • Making a collage on the categories of Creative Arts and Sports

What you will be able to do

  • describe categories of Creative Arts and Sports
  • outline the relationships among the categories of Creative Arts and Sports
  • make a collage on the categories of the Creative Arts and Sports
  • appreciate the categories of Creative Arts and Sports

Key questions

“How are the categories of the Creative Arts and Sports related?”

Lessons

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  1. What Creative Arts and Sports are
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Creative Arts and Sports is one learning area that joins visual arts, performing arts and sports so learners can create, perform and play.
  2. Visual Arts
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Visual Arts are works made to be seen, such as drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, craft and photographs.
  3. Music and dance
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Music and dance are performing arts of sound and movement, from Kenyan folk song to school choir and social dance.
  4. Drama and film
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Drama and film tell stories with body, voice and (for film) the camera, on a stage or a screen.
  5. Sports
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Sports are organised physical games and athletics, played with rules, skill, fitness and often a team and an audience.
  6. How the categories relate
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The four categories relate through functions, execution, visual presentation, competition, audience, attire, themes and team effort.
  7. Making a collage of the categories
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    A collage pastes collected pictures into one composition that shows all four CAS categories.
  8. Displaying and appreciating the work
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Learners display collages, give kind feedback, and appreciate all four categories of Creative Arts and Sports.