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Standard 1

Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.

Benchmark 1

The students will apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks.

Indicator 1

The students will be exposed to traditional media and emerging technology such as computer art, design, drawing, film/video, jewelry, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles/fibers.

Indicator 2

The students will select and use appropriate media, techniques and processes to express ideas, feelings and experiences.

Indicator 3

The students will demonstrate safe use, control and maintenance of tools and media.

Indicator 4

The students will identify problems encountered while making art and develop possible solutions.

Indicator 5

The students will analyze the effectiveness of personal solutions to art problems.

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Standard 2

Using knowledge of structures and functions.

Benchmark 1

The students will generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work.

Indicator 1

The students will discuss implicit and explicit evidence of elements and principles of design found in two and three dimensional shapes/forms.

Indicator 2

The students will demonstrate understanding of formal and expressive qualities in representational, abstract and nonobjective works of art and their functions.

Benchmark 2

The students will employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas.

Indicator 1

The students will demonstrate use of elements and principles in a variety of art works.

Indicator 2

The students will analyze the effect of combined elements and principles to convey the purpose of specific artworks.

Benchmark 3

The students will select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas.

Indicator 1

The students will synthesize elements and principles to convey meaning and purpose in art.

Indicator 2

The students will understand connections of the visual arts to human needs, values and beliefs.

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Standard 3

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 artworks.

Indicator 1

The students will develop an idea, plan and produce works of art that convey specific messages.

Indicator 2

The students will compare and interpret artwork based on common themes and/or functions.

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, consumer, and student.

Benchmark 2

The students will use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks.

Indicator 1

The students will generate and analyze responses to contemporary and historical artworks.

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Standard 4

Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

Benchmark 1

The students will know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

Indicator 1

The students will identify characteristics of artwork of selected eras and cultures.

Indicator 2

The students will categorize selected artworks according to historical/cultural contexts.

Indicator 3

The students will create art that reflects knowledge of other cultures.

Indicator 4

The students will research and analyze the characteristics of two or more works of art that share similar subject matter and/or culture.

Indicator 5

The students will compare interrelationship between human behavior, the environment and its materials.

Indicator 6

The students will create works of art that implement and extend knowledge of science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and the performing arts.

Benchmark 2

The students will describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

Indicator 1

The students will explain the relationship of the principles and subject matter of other disciplines with the visual arts.

Indicator 2

The students will identify the processes of how creating art uses a variety of intellectual skills as in other subjects.

Benchmark 3

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 demonstrate an understanding of how the meanings of specific artworks reflect factors of time and place.

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Standard 5

Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

Benchmark 1

The students will compare multiple purposes for creating works of art.

Indicator 1

The students will develop an idea, plan and produce works of art that convey specific messages.

Indicator 2

The students will analyze and explain criteria for judging works of art from different perspectives, such as the art historian, art critic, artist, consumer, and student.

Benchmark 2

The students will analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry.

Indicator 1

The students will compare and interpret artwork based on common themes and/or functions.

Indicator 2

The students will generate and analyze responses to contemporary and historical artworks.

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Standard 6

Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

Benchmark 1

The students will compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

Indicator 1

The students will identify characteristics of artwork of selected eras and cultures.

Indicator 2

The students will categorize selected artworks according to historical/cultural contexts.

Indicator 3

The students will create art that reflects knowledge of other cultures.

Indicator 4

The students will research and analyze the characteristics of two or more works of art that share similar subject matter and/or culture.

Indicator 5

The students will create works of art that implement and extend knowledge of science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and the performing arts.

Benchmark 2

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 demonstrate an understanding of how the meanings of specific artworks reflect factors of time and place.

Indicator 2

The students will explain the relationship of the principles and subject matter of other disciplines with the visual arts.

Indicator 3

The students will compare interrelationship between human behavior, the environment and its materials.

Indicator 4

The students will identify the processes of how creating art uses a variety of intellectual skills as in other subjects.

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