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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.03: Develop fluency in use of symbols for visual expression.
  • Objective 1.04: Discuss and examine familiar objects and literature to inspire imagery.
  • Objective 1.05: Carefully observe and examine the world around them.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional basic art media, techniques and processes which may include: fibers - papermaking and paper weaving.
• 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 3.01: Use variety of geometric and organic shapes in creating own work.
  • Objective 3.02: Differentiates between geometric and organic shapes.
  • Objective 3.03: Recognize that pattern is created by repetition and uses pattern in own artwork.
  • Objective 3.04: Use a variety of techniques and imagery incorporating pattern and repetition.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.01: Understand the process involved in using the media.
  • Objective 1.02: Plan and organize for creating art.
  • Objective 1.05: Recognize that in a world of imagination there is no right or wrong, but that some solutions are better than others.
  • Objective 1.06: Use experimentation to find solutions.
  • Objective 1.07: Recognize that diverse solutions are preferable to predetermined visual solutions.
  • Objective 1.08: Recognize that images from reality and from fantasy may be used to create original art.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Become familiar with additional art media, techniques and processes that may include:
    • Cut paper - tape
    • Printmaking - styrofoam, water soluble printing ink

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use expanded vocabulary to generate synonyms for commonly overused words to increase clarity of written and oral communication.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.02: Identify, build, and name cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms.
  • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving spatial visualization.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will perform simple transformations.
  • Objective 3.01: Combine simple figures to create a given shape.
  • Objective 3.03: Identify and make:
    • Symmetric figures.
    • Congruent figures.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
  • Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).
  • Objective 3.04: Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.