Media Arts: Grades 6, 7, 8

Creating

Producing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Formulate a variety of ideas, goals, and solutions for media artworks using focused creative processes (such as sketching, concept modeling, and divergent thinking).

Structure and critique ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering intent, resources, and the presentation context.

Implement multiple production processes to integrate content and style choices for determined meaning in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles (such as perspective, theme, unity, and composition).

Improve and refine media artworks by intentionally emphasizing particular expressive elements to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, or place.

Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey themes and ideas (such as interactive video games, interdisciplinary projects, or multimedia theater).

Develop and demonstrate a variety of artistic, design, technical, and interpersonal skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in producing media artworks (such as strategizing and collaborative communication).

Demonstrate an increasing set of creative and adaptive innovation abilities (such as developing new solutions for identified problems or bending conventions).

Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks

Analyze and design a presentation and distribute collections of media artworks, considering combinations of artworks, formats, and audience.

Analyze and evaluate results and implement improvements for presenting media artworks, considering personal and local impacts (such as the benefits for the self and others).

Compare, contrast, and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and style in media artworks.

Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and show intention.

Analyze the intent and meaning of a variety of media artworks, using self-developed criteria.

Develop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback.

Research, demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various contexts, purposes, and values, such as democracy, environment, and connecting people and places.

Analyze and interact with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy, and social media.

Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to plan the creation of media artworks (such as brainstorming, knowledge, experiences, interests, and research).

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings and knowledge, situations, and cultural experiences, such as learning and historical events.