This document provides information about creative arts and sports for grade 8 students. It discusses the roles of creative arts and sports in society, which include bringing people together, fostering community, preserving culture, and providing entertainment and employment. The components of creative arts are described, such as visual arts, plays, music, dance, and verse. Sports are defined as physical activities involving skills and competition. The document also covers topics like storyboarding, elements of music, pitch, and constructing the G major scale.

1. CREATIVE ARTS
& SPORTS
GRADE 8

2. STRAND 1 FOUNDATIONS
OF CREATIVE ARTS.

3. SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the Sub Strand, the learner should be able
to:
a) Describe the roles of Creative Arts and Sports in
society,
b) Make a storyboard highlighting the roles of Creative
Arts and Sports in society,
c) Appreciate the role played by Creative Arts and
Sports in society.

4. 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE
ARTS AND SPORTS.
What is creative arts?
Creative Arts is a description of various artistic activities that
allow performers to use their imaginations, creativity, and
express ideas through a variety of mediums to passage a
message to the audience.
What is sports?
A sport is any activity involving physical or mental effort
combined with skills in which an individual or a team or teams
compete against another or others for entertainment.
What is the
importance
of Creative
Arts and
Sports in
society?

6. ROLES OF CREATIVE ARTS AND SPORTS IN
THE SOCIETY.
They are divided into
Social roles
1. Creates a sense of identity
2. Bring people together, creating shared experiences that help to foster a
sense of community and collective identity.
3. Creative arts and sports promote cohesion through teamwork.
4. Preservation of culture: Ensures that our history and traditions are not
forgotten, and that future generations can appreciate and learn from them.
5. Creative arts and sports inspire creativity, talents and abilities.
6. Provides entertainment through components such as music, dance,
drama, narratives, films and movies, various sports i.e., soccer, basketball,
netball, volley ball.

7. Economic roles of Creative arts and Sports.
1. Creative arts and sports provide employment opportunities
such as artists, musicians, referees, sports coaches, sports
doctors, choreographers. Trainers, teachers etc.
2. One can earn income through activities related to creative
arts and sports hence eradicating poetry.
3. Through creative arts and sports, a country can earn or
generate tax revenue. (boosts revenue collection)
4. Creative arts and sports attract investments which in turn
increases job opportunities.
5. Creative arts and sports stimulate growth of economy
through sectors such as tourism. (Encourages tourism)

8. CREATING A STORY BOARD
• This is a visual representation of a message using still photos to create a story
line.
• Steps of making a story board inclide
1. collect and cut the pictures of Creative Arts and Sports activities
2. Creatively, prepare the surface by painting (splattering, wash),
3. Use the pictures collected to make a photographic storyboard by pasting
them on the painted surface,
4. Decorate the storyboard with found beads or any other creative materials,
5. Display the storyboard in the classroom, make observations and give each
other feedback.

9. 1.2 COMPONENTS OF
CREATIVE ARTS AND
SPORTS.

10. SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the Sub Strand, the learner should be able to:
1. Describe elements of Verse,
2. Perform activities that enhance endurance and
agility in fitness,
3. Write note values on the bass staff,
4. Name pitches on the bass staff,
5. Group music notes in simple time 34
6. Constructing the scale of G major on a staff,
7. Appreciate the basic elements of Creative Arts and
Sports.

11. CREATIVE ARTS IS MADE OF THE
FOLLOWING COMPONENTS:
1. Visual arts -creative art forms appreciated
through sense of sight such as;
Drawing.
Painting.
Sculpture.
Montage.
Collage
What are the
components
of Creative
Arts and
Sports?

12. 2. Play - a written work that tells a story through
action and speech and is meant to be acted on a
stage.
3. Music - Music is a collection of coordinated
sound or sounds. Making music is the process of
putting sounds and tones in an order, often
combining them to create a unified composition.
4. Dance -dance is the movement of the body in a
rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given
space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or
emotion.

13. 5. Elocution (Verse)
• Writing that is arranged in short lines with a regular rhythm

14. PRINCIPLES OF VISUALARTS.
There are two principles of visual arts
namely:
•Principle of dominance.
•Principle of proportion.

15. PRINCIPLE OF DOMINANCE IN VISUALARTS.
Dominance is when a single element is so large and/or different
compared to the rest of the design that it dominates.
It grabs your attention. Famous examples include the London Eye that
dominates the skyline of London or the Ashoka Lions that dominate the
Indian Passport and other official documents.

16. PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTION IN VISUAL
ARTS.
Proportion refers to the dimensions of a composition
and relationships between height, width and depth.
How proportion is used will affect how realistic or
stylized. Proportion also describes how the sizes of
different parts of a piece of art or design relate to
each other.
Proportion in any art is the relative size of objects in
relation to each other or corresponding to the other
elements as a whole.

17. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A PLAY
Theme - What is the meaning of theme in
element of drama? The theme refers to the
message (meaning) that is intended to be
expressed in the story. In other words, it is the
main idea or the lesson to be learned from the
story. Examples of themes in plays include:
justice, loyalty. drugs, bullying, human rights etc.
Character- this is a person or individual taking
part in the play or drama that may have defined
personal qualities and/or histories.

18. Plot- A plot is a sequence of events within a play that tells
a story. A plot is what makes a story. Five components make
up a plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,
and resolution. Conflict and theme help drive the plot
forward.
Language- Language in drama is represented as spoken
language or, in other words, as speech.In drama, language
refers to the particular manner of verbal expression, the
diction or style of writing, or the speech or phrasing that
suggests a class or profession or type of character.
Setting- The setting is the time and place in which the
story takes place.

19. ELEMENTS OF MUSIC IN CREATIVE ARTS.
1. Sound-any tone with characteristics such as
controlled pitch and timbre
2. Rhythm- Rhythm is the pattern of sound, silence,
and emphasis in a song
3. Melody- a melody is a combination of pitch and
rhythm.
4. Harmony-harmony, in music, the sound of two or
more notes heard simultaneously.

20. ELEMENTS OF DANCE IN CREATIVE ARTS.
• Body -In dance, the body is the mobile figure or
shape, felt by the dancer, seen by others. The body is
sometimes relatively still and sometimes changing as
the dancer moves in place or travels through the dance
area. The body is the mobile instrument of the dancer
and helps inform us of what is moving.
• Action -This is what a dancer does, for example
travelling, turning, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of
body parts, floor-work and the transference of weight.

21. •Space -Space refers to the area through
which the dancer's body moves.
•Time - It is an essential part of
choreographing and performing dance. It
helps us to stay together when we dance in
unison, identify the beat and the rhythm of
how we move and provide stimulus for
choreography.

22. ELEMENTS OF VERSE IN CREATIVE ARTS.
• Rhyme
• Stanza
• Character
• Tone
• theme
• Setting
• Structure
• Form
• Diction

23. COMPONENTS OF SPORTS
• Agility
• Fitness
• Balance
• Speed
• Endurance
• Coordination
• Reaction time

24. VIDEO OF FITTNESS SESCCION

25. PITCH
• The bass clef symbol looks like this and signifies low to medium
pitches being read on the staff. Each line and space is assigned a
specific note,
• The lines are G, B, D, F, A, (GOOD BOYS DO FINE ALWAYS) and the
spaces A, C, E and G,(ALL COWS EAT GRASS) starting from the
bottom of the bass clef staff.

27. GROUPING NOTES IN ¾ TIME
• Notes are grouped into three groups of 2/8 notes depending on the
baseline
• In ¾ time a crotchet is not followed by a minim rest
• Groups with semi quivers are normally beamed to makeup one crotchet
bit maximum
• Quivers can beamed across two or three whole crotchet bits but the first
note of the group must fall on the beat

28. CONSTRUCTING G MAJOR SCALE
• The G major is made up of 8 notes i.e. G,A,B,C,D,E,F sharp, G
• The notes are separated by a specific pattern of whole steps (W) and half steps
H
• The whole steps represent tones while half steps represent semitones
• The scale has one sharp note (F sharp) and the fewest sharp of all sharp key
signature
• Scale of G major has note G as its tonic

29. KEYBOARD
• Accidental are symbols that indicate how a note needs to change
from what is written on the clef.
• On the keyboard the black keys are called accidentals white keys are
naturals
• Accidentals are always written on the left of a note
• There are three main accidentals
• Sharp – looks like a number sign and raises a note by half step
• Flat – looks like a lower case b and low as a note by half step
• Natural - removes any previously written accidental

30. MIDDLE C
• Middle C is the C note found on the right of the grouping of two black keys .
• If you lace your finger at either end of the key board and your finger one at
time your fingers will meet at F.
• The next lowest C after the F is the middle C

31. ASSESSMENT
1. Explain the role of Creative Arts and
Sports
2. Execute components of Creative
Arts and Sports