Grade 6 Fine Arts Next Gen Standards

Analyze the movement characteristics or qualities observed in a specific dance genre. Relate what was observed to one's attitudes and movement preferences.

Conduct research, using a variety of resources, to find information about a social issue of great interest. Use the information to create a dance study that expresses a specific point of view on the topic. Discuss whether the experience of creating and sharing the dance reinforces personal views or offers new knowledge and perspectives.

Interpret and show how the movement and qualities of a dance work or practice communicate its cultural, historical, and/or community purpose or meaning.

Relate similar or contrasting ideas to develop choreography, using a variety of stimuli (e.g. music/sound, dance exemplars, literary forms, notation, ideas and images, personal experiences/recall, objects/props, natural phenomena, world news and social issues).

Explore the elements of dance in various movement vocabularies to convey ideas through choreography. Describe the connection between the choreography and the ideas conveyed, using genre-specific vocabulary when appropriate.

Explore choreographic devices (e.g. juxtaposition, shifting formations) and dance structures (e.g. ABA, solo or duet with group) with teacher guidance to develop a dance study that supports an artistic intent. Explain the goal or purpose of the dance. Analyze why choreographers use exploration and experimentation.

Determine artistic criteria to choreograph a dance study that communicates personal or cultural meaning. Based on the criteria, evaluate why some movements are more or less effective than others.

Compare and contrast a variety of possible production elements (e.g. music, props, costumes, lights, set, video) that would intensify and heighten the artistry of the work. Analyze how the choreographer works with all production and non-production professionals.

Revise dance compositions based on artistic criteria developed collaboratively, using self, peer, or teacher feedback. Explain rationale for revisions and how choices relate to artistic intent.

Explore or invent a system to document a dance sequence through writing, symbols, or media technology.

Refine skills for estimating distance and spatial design in partner and ensemble work. Establish diverse pathways, levels, and patterns in space. Maintain focus with partner or group in near and far space.

Use combinations of sudden and sustained timing as it relates to both the tempo and the dynamics of a phrase or dance work. Accurately use accented and unaccented beats in various meters.

Use varying tensions within one's musculature for movement initiation and dynamic expression. Appropriately apply a range of dynamics and musicality to technique exercises and dance phrases.

Embody technical dance skills (e.g. functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness, clarity of movement) to accurately execute changes of direction, levels, facings, pathways, elevations and landings, extensions of limbs, and movement transitions.

Apply basic anatomical knowledge, proprioceptive feedback, spatial awareness, and understanding of nutrition to promote safe and healthful strategies when warming up and dancing.

Collaborate as an ensemble to refine dances by identifying what works and does not work in executing complex patterns, sequences and formations. Solve movement challenges in dances by investigating options and arriving at consensus decisions. Document self-improvements over time.

Evaluate unique characteristics of a venue and adapt movements to the performance space. Document the process in writing and in other media. Use performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal, and performance. Post-performance, receive, record, and reflect upon notes from the choreographer, and apply corrections to future performances.

Explore and select solutions to adapt to interaction with production elements (e.g. music/sound, props, costumes, sets, lighting) to enhance performance of a dance. Discuss the challenges of dancing with various production elements to intensify and heighten the artistic performance of a work, using dance and production terminology.

Analyze the organization of choreographic devices and their relationships (e.g. transitions, contrasts) in a dance.

Explain how the elements of dance are used in a variety of dance genres, styles, or cultural movement practices.

Explain how a dance communicates meaning through the elements of dance, use of body, dance technique, and dance structure, using genre-specific dance terminology.

Discuss the characteristics and context of a dance from a genre, style, or cultural movement practice and develop criteria to critique the dance, using genre-specific dance terminology.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Connecting

Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts both influence and are influenced by dance.

Creating

Refine and complete artistic work.

Dancers use the body-mind principles and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.

Personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret and create dance.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Meaningful interpretations of dance consider artistic intent, style, genre, the elements of dance, technique, structure, and context.

Responding

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Choreographers are inspired by a variety of sources to convey concepts and ideas through movement for artistic expression.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic structures serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.

Dance performance is an interaction between performers, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.

Performing

Create musical ostinati and motifs to accompany or portray events, a story, or to illustrate an abstract idea.

Relate music to personal accomplishments and experiences.

Express and/or share a musical idea or emotion by using technological resources.

Identify how sound is created on a variety of instruments and other sound sources.

Perform folk music from a variety of cultures, including some in foreign languages, and describe the music's role(s) and meaning in its culture of origin.

Use technological resources to preserve musical ideas from varied musical styles and repertoire as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Generate rhythmic and melodic ideas over given harmonic accompaniments within AB and ABA forms, and identify connection to purpose and context.

Organize and/or demonstrate developed musical ideas for arrangements or compositions that express intent and have a clear beginning, middle, and end (such as in AB or ABA form).

Use standard notation and/or audio/video recording to combine, sequence, and document musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying criteria and feedback (related to areas such as elements of music), and explain the rationale for changes.

Present the final version of their documented composition or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate an effective beginning, middle and ending, and convey expressive intent.

Apply established criteria for selecting music to perform (from teacher-or student-provided options) for a specific purpose and/or context, and explain why each was chosen.

Explain and demonstrate how the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, use grade-level standard notation to read and identify musical symbols and functions, as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Explain how social, cultural, and historical context inform performances.

Demonstrate a selected piece of music that shows how their interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, and phrasing) convey intent and are appropriate to the context.

Discuss and apply established and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of performances.

Identify and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies and show readiness to present.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform music with stylistic expression, technical accuracy, and interpretation

Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, context, genre, and style, demonstrating performance decorum.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Select and explain how contrasting musical works (from teacher-or student-provided options) connect to and are influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Describe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of pieces.

Identify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

Describe a personal interpretation of how creators and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, conveys expressive intent.

Apply established criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, citing evidence, explaining appropriateness to the context.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Creating

Connecting

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Performing

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Musicians judge expression and technique in prepared performances by using criteria that vary across time, place, and culture. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Responding

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

Apply personal interests, experiences, and external resources to reflect circumstances or form new meaning in media artwork.

Research and show how, throughout time, media artwork and ideas relate to personal, social, professional, and cultural experiences.

Research and show how media artworks push existing sociocultural boundaries.

Envision ideas for media artwork, using personal experiences and the work of others.

Envision, organize, and propose plans and models for media art production.

Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts devices and media environments, considering fair use and copyright ethics, and media literacy.

Experiment and evaluate multiple approaches, components, and techniques to purposefully create content and meaning in media artworks.

Interpret and discuss how integrating multiple components, art forms, and processes can support a central idea in a media artwork presentation.

Demonstrate adaptability in the use of tools and techniques in traditional and innovative ways, to achieve an assigned purpose in presenting media artworks.

Analyze presentation contexts, perform roles and tasks for media presentation or distribution, considering the results and the meaning of a media arts presentation.

Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by elements of media artwork.

Identify, describe, and differentiate how audience experiences can be influenced and managed by various forms, methods, and styles.

Analyze the purpose and context of a variety of media artwork, considering media artwork criteria.

Recognize differences in criteria used to evaluate media artworks, depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to navigate unforeseen challenges and to contribute to solutions within a society or culture.

Media artists balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing, creating, and sharing media artworks.

Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves artistic appreciation and production.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Media artists intentionally integrate, analyze, and revise elements, principles and processes to improve the clarity, communication, and purpose of the media artwork.

The reciprocal nature of creation and presentation of media artworks demands a wide range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems and refine media artworks. Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to effectively present media artworks.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Media artwork is made to be shared. Media artists purposefully present and distribute media artworks for various contexts.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, cultures, and various contexts.

Connecting

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Skillful evaluation and critique are essential components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artwork.

Creating

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into structures that can effectively realize artistic ideas.

Media artwork synthesize personal experiences to create meaning.

Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of media artwork.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Media arts ideas and works are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, artistic traditions, and experiences.

Media artists integrate various forms and contents to present or share complex, unified media artworks.

Producing

Media artworks communicate and influence audience experiences.

Responding

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music.

With teacher guidance, identify the musical qualities that give persuasive music (such as soundtracks, commercials, protest songs) its effect on the perspectives and beliefs of the listener.

Describe effective strategies for reaching a musical goal that is of importance to you.

Express and share an original musical idea or emotion using instrumental resources.

Explore the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue vocational and avocational opportunities in the musical community.

Identify the cultural, social, and political uses for music.

Explain ways in which music is used to inform or change the beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or of a society.

Generate melodic and rhythmic phrases that exhibit cohesiveness within forms (such as AB, ABA, song form) over given chord progressions.

Generate chordal accompaniments for teacher-provided or self-composed melodies.

Select, develop, and arrange rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas to generate multi-chord accompaniments to melodies with simple forms (such as AB or ABA), and melodic phrases over specified chord progressions to express intent.

Use standard notation or recording technology to document drafts of musical ideas.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate and refine drafts of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two to three chord accompaniments to short or simple melodies.

Explain the rationale for changes, based on evaluation criteria.

Share completed multi-chord accompaniments to teacher-provided or self-composed melodies and melodic phrases (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms).

Demonstrate and explain expressive intent, and development and organization of musical ideas, based on evaluation criteria and craftsmanship.

Apply teacher-and collaboratively developed criteria to explain and demonstrate how a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles is selected (from teacher-or student-provided options), based on personal interest, knowledge, personal and others' technical skills, and the purpose and/or context of the performance(s).

Identify and compare prominent elements of music (such as form and harmony) in a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles.

Use aural skills and standard notation (rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic) when analyzing selected music.

Explain how elements of music and social, cultural, and/or historical context(s) inform prepared or improvised performance(s).

Demonstrate and explain how intent and consideration of the social, cultural, and/or historical performance context(s) are conveyed through interpretive decisions and elements of music (such as form and harmony) in a repertoire of music representing contrasting styles.

Apply self-reflection and teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate prepared or improvised ensemble and personal performances.

Implement rehearsal strategies to address challenges, refine technical accuracy and elements of music (such as form and harmony), show improvement over time, and determine when the music is ready to perform.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform a repertoire of prepared or improvised music representing contrasting styles, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Demonstrate performance decorum (such as stage presence and behavior) and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, genre, and style.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Demonstrate and compare, using teacher-developed criteria, how selected music (from teacher-or student-provided options) connects to and is influenced by interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Demonstrate and describe, giving examples, how the elements of music are manipulated in musical selections.

Identify how social, cultural, and/or historical context informs a response.

Identify and explain how the expressive qualities; elements of music; and social, cultural, and/or historical context influence performers' interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Explain how interest, experiences, and personal, social, and/or historical contexts affect evaluation, and apply these in interpreting a varied repertoire of music.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Performing

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Responding

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Connecting

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

The quality and effectiveness of a performance is based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Describe effective strategies for reaching a musical goal that is of importance to you.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music.

With teacher guidance, identify the musical qualities that give persuasive music (such as soundtracks, commercials, protest songs) its effect on the perspectives and beliefs of the listener.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and timbral ideas, based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select from and develop previously generated ideas into musical patterns that demonstrate particular content of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Preserve drafts of creative work through standard notation and/or recording technology.

Select varied repertoire to study (from teacher-or student-provided options) based on music literacy, an understanding of formal design in the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual and ensemble.

Use teacher and student feedback to develop strategies that address technical challenges to refine performances.

Respond appropriately to specific aural and visual cues (such as phrasing, expression, and articulations).

Describe how understanding context and the way that the elements of music are manipulated informs the response to music.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

The multi-dimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Connecting

Responding

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Performing

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own abilities, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Explain reasons for selecting music (from teacher-or student-provided options) by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

The essence of theater is storytelling.

Theater artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created theatrical processes and productions to inform their own work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Theater artists' interpretations of drama or theater work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics.

Theater artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.

Theater artists deliberately interrelate their creative process with the world around them.

Performing

Connecting

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Theater artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.

Creativity is a foundation of theatrical practice.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Theater artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Responding

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Understanding of theatrical experiences is deepened through reflection.

Creating

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Theater artists allow awareness of relationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Theater artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal and active participation.

Theater artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theater work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Explain how the actions and motivations of characters in a drama or theater work reflect perspectives of a community or culture.

Identify universal themes or common social issues and express them through a drama or theater work.

Analyze two different versions of a drama or theater work to determine differences and similarities.

Investigate time period and place to better understand performance and design choices.

Identify possible solutions to staging challenges.

Identify solutions to design challenges in a drama or theater work.

Explore the relationship between scripted or improvised characters and their given circumstances.

Use critical analysis to improve, refine, and evolve original ideas and artistic choices.

Collaborate to devise a drama or theater work.

Articulate and examine choices to refine a devised or scripted drama or theater work.

Identify effective physical and vocal traits of characters.

Expand a planned technical design during the rehearsal process.

Identify the essential events in a story or script that comprise the dramatic structure.

Experiment with various physical and vocal choices to communicate character.

Articulate how acting exercises and acting techniques can be used to improve theatrical experiences.

Propose the integration of technical elements in theatrical experiences.

Devise a theatrical experience and present it informally to an audience.

Describe and record personal reactions to artistic choices.

Identify the relationship between artistic choices and personal experience.

Identify personal aesthetics through participation in or observation of a drama or theater work.

Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate a drama or theater work.

Consider technical elements used to assess aesthetic choices.

Identify a specific audience or purpose for a drama or theater work.

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique; and reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

People gain insight into meanings of artwork by engaging in a process of art criticism.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Presenting

Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

Creating

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Works of art and design embody and influence the needs, desires, beliefs, traditions, and values of people within a culture.

Artists, curators, and other arts professionals engage appropriate methods and resources when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation.

Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented communicate meaning and function as a record of social, cultural, and political experiences; resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, and the world.

Artists, collectors, curators, and other arts professionals consider a variety of criteria when analyzing and selecting objects, artifacts, and artwork for presentation and preservation.

Connecting

People evaluate art, based on various criteria.

Responding

Artists and designers balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing and creating artwork.

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to contribute to innovative solutions within a society or culture.

People create, respond to, and interact with objects and places in ways that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through artmaking.

Analyze how works of art and design correlate with the needs, desires, beliefs, and traditions of a culture.

Compare and contrast different design solutions to a community planning problem, based on appeal, function, and innovative quality.

Collaboratively exchange concepts and different points of view to generate innovative ideas for creating art.

Use brainstorming to formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.

Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and artmaking approaches in making works of art and design.

Practice conservation, care, safety, and clean-up of art materials, tools, and equipment.

Explain and practice responsible use of sharing images online.

Design or redesign objects, places, or systems that meet the identified needs of diverse users.

Reflect on whether personal artwork effectively communicates meaning and revise accordingly.

Analyze similarities and differences associated with preserving and presenting two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital artwork.

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

Assess, explain, and provide evidence of how museums or other venues reflect the history and values of a community.

Identify and interpret works of art or design that reveal how people around the world live and what they value.

Analyze ways that visual components and cultural associations suggested by images influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

Interpret art by distinguishing between relevant and non-relevant contextual information and analyzing subject matter, characteristics of form and structure and use of media.

Recognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art, depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.