1. Use materials, techniques, media technology, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences.

1. Apply materials, techniques, media technology, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.

2. Use art materials and tools safely and responsibly.

2. Use art materials and tools safely and responsibly to communicate experiences and ideas.

2. Intentionally use art material and tools effectively to communicate ideas.

3. Use visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to communicate ideas.

3. Select and use the visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to communicate ideas.

3. Apply organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

4. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

4. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

4. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

1. Apply knowledge of materials, techniques, and processes to create artwork.

1. Select materials, techniques, and processes to effectively communicate ideas.

1. Apply materials, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that personal intentions are carried out in artworks.

2. Apply knowledge of how visual characteristics and organizational principles communicate ideas.

2. Employ organizational principles and analyze what makes them effective or not in the communication of ideas.

2. Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

3. Explore and understand prospective subject matter, ideas, and symbols for works of art.

3. Integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in artworks.

3. Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others.

4. Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning.

4. Use subjects, themes, and symbols that communicate intended meaning in artworks.

4. Apply and adapt subjects, symbols, and creative ideas in artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life.

5. Know different purposes of visual art to creatively convey ideas.

5. Integrate organizational structures and characteristics to create art for different purposes.

5. Demonstrate an improved ability to integrate structures, characteristics and principles to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art.

6. Use technology as a tool for creative expression.

6. Organize information and ideas for media productions.

6. Create media productions that demonstrate knowledge, contexts, values, and aesthetics.

1. Generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in personal work.

1. Form and defend judgments about characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art.

1. Analyze the effectiveness of selections in communicating ideas and reflect upon the effectiveness of choices.

2. Identify various purposes for creating works of visual art.

2. Observe and compare works of art that were created for different purposes.

2. Identify intentions of artists, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify analyses of purposes in particular works.

3. Understand there are different responses to specific artworks.

3. Describe how materials, techniques, technology, and processes cause responses.

3. Describe how expressive features and organizational principles cause responses.

4. Describe and compare the characteristics of personal artwork.

4. Describe and compare the characteristics of personal artwork to the artwork of others.

4. Reflect upon the characteristics and assess the merits of one’s personal artwork.

5. Understand how personal experiences can influence the development of artwork.

5. Describe how personal experiences influence the development of specific artworks.

5. Reflect and analyze the personal experiences that influence the development of personal artwork.

1. Know that the visual arts have a history and specific relationships to various cultures.

1. Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.

1. Reflect on how the subjects, ideas, and symbols of artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally with respect to history and culture.

2. Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

2. Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts.

2. Describe the functions and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places.

3. Demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art.

3. 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.

3. Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and culture, justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using conclusions to inform personal artwork.

1. Explain how visual arts have inherent relationships to everyday life.

2. Identify various careers in the visual arts.

1. Analyze personal, family, and community connections that involve work by visual artists.

2. Describe and compare skills involved in arts-related and visual arts careers.

1. Speculate and analyze how future technologies may impact art in everyday life.

2. Describe the characteristics of a variety of visual arts careers.

3. Understand and use comparative characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

3. Compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context.

3. Compare the materials, technologies, techniques, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creating and types of analysis.

4. Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

4. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.

4. Compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas, issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences.