Visual Arts: Grades K, 1

Visual Arts

Learn and develop skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.

Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as other content areas.

Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Observe, discuss, analyze and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression. Grades K-5 benchmark 7A: Expand dance horizons through the use of technology.

Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Participate in the process of making and looking at works of art to understand the elements of art, such as: color, form, line, shape, size, space, texture and value.

Explore and develop skills using art materials, tools and techniques

Use art materials and tools safely and responsibly.

Create art work that expresses ideas, feelings and experiences about self, family, community and the world.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other arts disciplines.

Explore connections between the elements of visual arts and other content areas.

Understand that artists create works of art based upon their diverse sources of inspiration, including personal and cultural experiences.

Practice methods of reflection and self-evaluation of one's own art work.

Develop necessary skills for identifying the design elements, narrative components and symbolism in a work of art.

Develop and practice skills necessary for communicating responses to a work of art.

Explore the visual arts of diverse peoples, times, places and cultures.

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression. Grades K-5 benchmark 7: Explore the role of specific inventions and their influence on art.

View art in various community settings.

Develop an awareness of how artists have contributed artistically to the community.

Identify the elements of art in works of art and the environment.

Explore the use of lines, shapes and other art elements for image-making.

Use a variety of art materials and related skills.

Take care of classroom art materials.

Answer questions about safety.

Describe ideas, feelings and experiences (about self, family, community and the world) in his or her art work and the art work of others.

Express ideas, feelings and experiences in making art.

Become familiar with and name the other arts disciplines.

Explore the relationship between visual elements and basic elements of other arts disciplines through discussion and art making.

Identify and discuss connections between the elements of art and the principles of design in art used in other content areas (e.g, shapes and patterns in math or texture and repetition in science).

Discuss connections between themes used in visual arts and other content areas (e.g., stories in art and language arts or scientific concepts about the seasons, as shown in art).

Discuss how some artists make art based on their personal and cultural experiences.

Look for clues to an artist's creative processes used in some works of art.

Describe the process of creating one's work of art.

Describe an artist's purpose for creating art work.

Identify and describe what the student sees in his/her own work and the work of others (e.g., subject matter, design elements, expressive qualities and materials used in works of art and in the student's own art).

Interpret possible stories and feelings from an art work based on what the student sees.

Discuss how the use of elements of art can express ideas and feelings in one's own art.

Describe what it was like to make one's work of art.

Examine art and discuss diverse cultural influences.

Create art about experiences within one's own culture.

Learn about and discuss art materials and media and when they came into use.

Demonstrate, explore and use different art media.

Identify and describe art in various settings.

Name some examples of local public art.

Talk about art careers.

Show personal art work in various settings.

Contribute to community culture by exhibiting art work in various settings.