Kindergarten

Creating Media Artwork

Understanding Artistic Design

Media Literacy

Making Connections

History and Culture

Using Technology Responsibly

Identify the specific skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary for creating media artwork.

Use a variety of media technologies, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas.

Develop an understanding of and respect for the accepted procedures regarding the responsible care of media arts equipment and materials.

Develop a basic media arts vocabulary and identify elements of artistic design specific to individual media.

Construct basic designs to communicate his or her personal experiences through media artwork.

Identify the creator and the purpose for simple media texts.

Identify messages in simple media texts.

Express his or her thoughts and feelings about simple media texts.

Describe ways that different audiences might respond to specific media texts.

Identify creative techniques used in a variety of media texts (for example, television, film, radio, Internet).

Identify uses of the media arts in everyday life.

Compare and contrast the media arts with other arts disciplines and other content areas.

View and describe a variety of media art forms.

View and discuss media artwork that portrays family and/or community.

Identify characteristics of the media arts that exist among diverse cultural and ethnic groups.

Explore human, cultural, and societal issues related to the media arts and the use of technology.

Practice legal and ethical behavior in the media arts and the use of technology.