Year 3 Art and Design Foundation Lesson Planners for SHS | NaCCA Aligned

This covers the full Year 3 Art and Design Foundation syllabus, split into the two semesters exactly as laid out in the NaCCA teacher manual.

First Semester (Weeks 1-12)

• Contemporary art: Ghanaian and African art since 2001, and the artists behind it.
• Art institutions: the Biennale and Triennale, and how contemporary and modern art shape the continent.
• Design concepts: emerging 21st-century ideas, and issues of gender, race and environment in art.
• Technology in art: digital tools and design, including NFTs as an emerging medium.

Second Semester (Weeks 13-24)

• Art criticism: the stages of critique and frameworks for evaluating aesthetics.
• CAD: computer-aided design principles and how they’re applied.
• Colour theory: advanced colour theory, colour schemes, and pigment on the spectrum.
• Composition: advanced drawing, composition and tonal values.

Comes as an editable Word/PDF, ready to fit into your term plan.