Grades K-2

1. CREATING ART: Use the creative processes and the language of art to communicate through a variety of media and techniques.

2. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT: Understand how art has shaped and preserved history and culture.

3. PERCEPTION AND EVALUATION: Using the language of art, students critically analyze, derive meaning from, and evaluate artwork.

4. CONNECTIONS: Make connections between art, personal experience, and the world.

To meet this standard, students will:

1.1 Use the creative process to plan, organize and problem solve.

1.2 Understand and use the language of art: the elements of art and principles of design.

1.3 Apply visual awareness to the creative process.

1.4 Develop skills and craftsmanship with materials, tools and techniques.

To meet this standard, students will:

2.1 Understand how history and culture have influenced art.

2.2 Understand how art has influenced and defined history and culture.

To meet this standard, students will:

3.1 Describe art works using the language of art.

3.2 Describe art works using the language of art.

3.3 Judge and evaluate art works using the language of art.

To meet this standard, students will:

4.1 Make connections to other curricular areas.

4.2 Make connections between visual art and the performing arts.

4.3 Make personal connections with visual art.

4.4 Make connections between the study of art and art careers.

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By the end of grade 2:

a. Use observations and experiences, both spontaneously and deliberately, to plan and create art.

a. Identify the elements of art and begin to apply principles of design

a. Create art that reflects personal observation and experience

a. Purposefully experiment with materials and techniques to produce a range of artwork.

a. Recognize that all cultures produce art.

b. Understand that art transcends time.

a. Identify and compare art that is used in cultural celebrations.

a.Use the senses to make observations about works of art

b. Use basic art concepts and vocabulary when making observations.

a. Communicate ideas and feelings about works of art

b. Use basic art concepts and vocabulary when communicating ideas and feelings about work

a. Evaluate works of art based on personal points of view

b. Use basic art concepts and vocabulary when evaluating works of art.

a. Identify art concepts that cross disciplines (e.g., pattern, shape, scale, form, balance, repetition, rhythm)

b. Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between words and images by applying text to images and images to text.

a. Identify the different forms of the arts.

b. Understand what the arts have in common.

c. Be aware that the arts can relate and combine for one purpose.

a. Describe how art enriches people’s lives.

a. Identify products that artists design and make and the careers of those who make them.