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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Recognize specific media and processes
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.03: Identify selected medium/techniques or processes used for an individual artwork.
• Goal 8: The learner will develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession.
  • Objective 8.02: Discuss the involvement in art of people of all ages to include visiting museums, making art, reading or writing about art and artists, buying art, and teaching and volunteering in the arts.

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following:
    • Photography - sun prints
    • Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software.
    • Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes.
    • 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools.
    • Printmaking - cardboard
    • Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software.
    • Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps.
    • Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.
  • Objective 2.02: Explore unique properties and potential of materials.
  • Objective 2.04: Develop familiarity with specific media and processes.
  • Objective 2.05: Interprets actual textures in a variety of media.
  • 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 3.06: Develop ability to discuss his or her own work and that of others in terms of art elements.
  • Objective 3.07: Recognize composition is using the elements of art to create an artwork.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.04: Identify media/techniques and processes used for an individual artwork.
  • Objective 5.06: Name selected artist.
  • Objective 5.07: Name selected works by an artist.