education standards

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social and community life, such as exploring commercial and information purposes, history, and ethics.

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life, and social, community, and cultural situations, such as personal identity, history, and entertainment.

Identify times, places, and reasons by which students make art outside of school.

Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

Explain how a person’s aesthetic choices are influenced by culture and environment and impact the visual image that one conveys to others.

Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.

Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making.

Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

Analyze and evaluate the reasons and ways an exhibition is presented.

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery.

Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work and its various contexts.

Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

Analyze how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses.

Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or new media.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.

Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.

Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.

Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.