Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Benchmark 1
The students will use different media, techniques, and processes to create art.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate the use of paint in an expressive manner.
Indicator 2
The students will use a commercial product in their artwork.
Indicator 3
The students will use recycled items in their artwork.
Indicator 4
The students will name and use art tools used in drawing, painting, weaving, printmaking, and sculpture.
Indicator 5
The students will use the slab technique to assemble clay.
Indicator 6
The students will use good craftsmanship when producing artwork.
Using knowledge of structures and functions.
Benchmark 1
The students will use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas.
Indicator 1
The students will demonstrate the purposeful use of compositional elements in their own artwork, including texture, balance, color, and line.
Indicator 2
The students will understand and identify the illusion of depth in artworks: overlapping, placement, size, color, and detail.
Indicator 3
The students will know the effects and functions of using various organizational elements of art and the principles of design when creating works of art.
Indicator 4
The students will locate cone, cube, sphere, cylinder and pyramid forms in the environment.
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Benchmark 1
The students will integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artwork.
Indicator 1
The students will use the elements of art and the principles of design with sufficient manipulative skills, confidence and sensitivity when communicating ideas.
Indicator 2
The students will develop and justify criteria for the evaluation of visual works of art using appropriate vocabulary.
Indicator 3
The students will understand perceived similarities and differences among different genres of art.
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Benchmark 1
The students will analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.
Indicator 1
The students will understand how artists have used visual languages and symbol systems through time and across cultures.
Indicator 2
The students will be aware that various artists recorded history and cultures through their artwork by depicting the landscape and people.
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
Benchmark 1
The students will describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to the artwork for various eras and cultures.
Indicator 1
The students will classify and describe art works according to the concepts of representational, nonobjective, and abstract.
Indicator 2
The students will describe how people's experiences influences and the development of specific artworks.
Indicator 3
The students will analyze and explain criteria for judging works of art from different perspectives such as the: art historian, art critic, artist, philosopher, student, teacher and consumer.
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Benchmark 1
The students will describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.
Indicator 1
The students will understand that people create art for various reasons and that everyday objects are designed by artists.
Indicator 2
The students will know that art is integrated into every discipline including: literature, math, science, geography, problem solving and history.
Indicator 3
The students will become familiar with the role of artists who earn their living creating art.
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