Media Arts: Grades 7-8

Creating

Presenting

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. Generate media arts ideas that integrate multiple images, sound and interactivity in a variety of ways.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Develop artistic plans that are clear enough for others to implement those ideas.

Refine and complete artistic work. Apply strategies to overcome creative blocks.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation. Prepare a theme-based exhibition.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. Utilize different approaches to share media work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. Match a media work with expressed intent (e.g. wanting the audience to feel tension between two positions).

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Analyze how culture is reflected in a diverse range of media works.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Explain how a media artwork is connected to the particular cultural, historical context where it was created.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Develop criteria for evaluating a collection of media artwork (e.g., students create criteria for a media exhibition that is juried by students).

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Describe and demonstrate influences of personal artistic style and preferences in media arts.

Relate artistic ideas and works to societal, cultural and historical contexts to deepen understanding. Explain and demonstrate how the media art are evolving in different cultures (e.g., how media arts are evolving differently in Korea versus the United States).