Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
- People and cultures communicate through visual arts.
- Visual arts tell stories with mood and emotion
through images.
- Visual arts inform us about our culture, history and
society.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should
be able to answer after completing learning activities.
- What is art?
- What makes a piece of artwork good?
- How can I communicate my ideas thoughts and
feelings effectively through art?
Standards-Based
Assessment items
I. Recognizes and uses the visual arts as
a form of communication.
Illustrates images (ideas/stories/events) with visual media.
II. Knows and applies elements of art and principles of design.
Identifies negative and positive shapes.
Identifies foreground, middle ground, background to
create space.
III. Knows
and applies the use of tools, materials, techniques, and processes.
Demonstrates safe
and appropriate use of tools and materials.
Demonstrates instructed techniques and processes.
IV. Demonstrates
an understanding of art in relation to history, culture, and community.
Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
history.
Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
culture.
Produces art that has been influenced by aspects of
community.
V. Critiques
works of art through analysis, assessment, and evaluation.
Compares and contrasts works of art.
Judges craftsmanship of works of art.
Math in Art
Standard 4: Geometry (August)
 Identify,
describe and give examples of congruent shapes.
 Identify,
classify and compare 2-dimensional shapes and use vocabulary to describe the
attributes (i.e., number of sides, vertices, angles and parallel sides).
Recognize
and draw lines of symmetry in a given shape.
 Identify
a line of symmetry for a given shape.
Standard 2: Patterns and Algebra (September)
Reproduce,
extend, create or describe patterns, using pictures, geometric shapes or
numbers.
Standard 4: Geometry (September)
Identify,
describe and give examples of congruent shapes.
Identify,
classify and compare 2-dimensional shapes and use vocabulary to describe the
attributes (i.e., number of sides, vertices, angles and parallel sides).
Recognize
and draw lines of symmetry in a given shape.
Identify
a line of symmetry for a given shape.
Identify
shapes from their attributes.
Name,
draw and label lines and line segments, to include intersecting and parallel
lines.
Standard 4: Geometry (October)
Identify,
name, draw and label lines and line segments, to include intersecting and
parallel lines.
Identify,
classify and compare 2-dimensional figures (trapezoids, parallelograms,
rhombus and other polygons)Name,
draw and label angles, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses,
quadrangles and other polygons.
Literacy in Art
Standard 6: Students read and recognize
literature as a record of human experience.
Art students will recognize literature and art as records of human
experience. Students will compare similarities and differences in styles of
artwork with literature styles of fiction, non fiction, fairy tales,
mythology, and poetry. |
