Grade 6 - Arts Education

Big Ideas

Exploring and creating

Reasoning and reflecting

Communicating and documenting

Content

Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people's sense of identity and community.

Artistic expressions differ across time and place.

Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.

Experiencing art is a means to develop empathy for others' perspectives and experiences.

Intentionally select, apply, combine, and arrange artistic elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments in art making

Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play

Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through the arts

Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts in relation to the arts

Research, describe, interpret and evaluate how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments in the arts

Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills in a variety of art forms to improve the quality of artistic creations

Reflect on works of art and creative processes to understand artists' intentions

Interpret creative works using knowledge and skills from various areas of learning

Examine relationships between the arts and the wider world

Adapt learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences

Interpret and communicate ideas using symbols and elements to express meaning through the arts

Take creative risks to express feelings, ideas, and experiences

Express, feelings, ideas, and experiences through the arts

Describe, interpret and respond to works of art and explore artists' intent

Experience, document and present creative works in a variety of ways

Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content

purposeful application of elements and principles to create meaning in the arts, including but not limited to:

processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, strategies, and techniques to support creative works

choregoraphic devices

a variety of dramatic forms

notation in music and dance to represent sounds, ideas, movement, elements, and actions

image developments strategies

symbolism and metaphor to explore ideas and perspective

traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes

a variety of regional and national works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places

personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or presenting in a safe learning environment

dance: body, space, dynamics (dance), time, relationships, form and movement principles

drama: character, time, place, plot, tension, mood, focus, contrast

music: beat/pulse, metre, duration, rhythm (music), tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics (music), form (music), texture

visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form (visual arts), value; principles of design: pattern, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm (visual arts), variety, unity, harmony