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Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Use various techniques to create visual effects using texture.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.02: Create, discuss and/or write simple stories about one's own artwork.
  • Objective 4.03: Produce work that shows attention to detail in one's surroundings.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Relate important ideas and feelings visually.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.03: Express moods and feelings.
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.05: Identify center of interest (emphasis) in a composition.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create, discuss, and/or write about whether the content of their artwork is reality or fantasy.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Identify main purpose for an individual artwork.
  • Objective 5.03: Identify selected medium/techniques or processes used for an individual artwork.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Understand that a major purpose of the arts is the creation of an original work.

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.06: Create portraits, still lifes and landscapes from real life observation or memory.
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.02: Create a variety of visual textures using computers and basic drawing, printmaking, sculpture and painting tools.
  • Objective 3.10: Respect the work of others when critiquing art.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.02: Use knowledge and imagination to interpret environments.
  • Objective 4.04: Interpret freely work by other artists, cultures or time periods to create original art.
  • Objective 4.05: Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's background and experiences are important in shaping that artist's work.
  • Objective 4.06: Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's environment and time makes one's own work different from that of other artists in other times or places.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.06: Name selected artist.
  • Objective 5.07: Name selected works by an artist.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.03: Express own ideas and feelings visually and with fluency.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.02: Create work which approaches a higher level of realism.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.04: Demonstrate one's own thought and feelings visually, using sequential, visual narrative.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.01: Create extended visual narratives based on one's own life and experiences.
  • Objective 4.02: Discuss and/or write extended narratives based on one's own art.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.08: Create work that does not conform to adult standards of realism.
• Goal 4: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.
  • Objective 4.04: Find inspiration in the work of other artists from many cultures.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.02: Accept others' work and ideas.
  • Objective 6.03: Recognize that no two people are alike; therefore, their artwork should be alike.
• Goal 7: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
  • Objective 7.01: Make use of commonalties in the subject matter of visual arts and other disciplines.