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 use various drawing techniques with control.
Indicator 2
The students will use various brush techniques.
Indicator 3
The students will push, pull, drag, and/or scrape various media to make a variety of marks or strokes.
Indicator 4
The students will use clay assembly processes.
Indicator 5
The students will use a printmaking process.
Indicator 6
The students will use a weaving process.
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 understanding of the elements of design. (line, shape, color, form, value, texture and space)
Indicator 2
The students will make tints by adding white to a color and shades by adding black to color.
Indicator 3
The students will recognize and use warm and cool colors.
Indicator 4
The students will use repeated lines to create patterns.
Indicator 5
The students will differentiate between foreground, middle ground and background.
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Benchmark 1
The students will examine such visual forms as clothing, insignias, and public building for expression of group identify.
Indicator 1
The students will examine compositions of visual images using selected criteria.
Indicator 2
The students will recognize how artwork is used to enhance literature and advertisement in our popular culture.
Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Benchmark 1
The students know that specific works of art belong to particular cultures, times, and places.
Indicator 1
The students will recognize that various cultures use art in celebration, rituals, and festivals.
Indicator 2
The students will understand how artists generate and express ideas according to their individual, cultural, and historical experiences.
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
Benchmark 1
The students will appreciate the unique qualities of folk and ethnic art forms.
Indicator 1
The students will learn about and appreciate artwork by women.
Indicator 2
The students will learn about and appreciate the artwork by African Americans, Native American, Asian and Hispanic artists.
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Benchmark 1
The students will know and recognize that the visual arts are interrelated with other disciplines.
Indicator 1
The students will integrate art with geography.
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