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Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate
Investigate - Plan - Make
artistic investigations?
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Choose from a
range of materials
and methods of
traditional and
Identify and Collaboratively Choose from a
Apply knowledge of Shape an artistic contemporary
Make art or design Collaboratively set demonstrate shape an artistic range of materials
Engage Use observation available resources, Formulate an Develop criteria to investigation of an artistic practices,
with various goals and create diverse methods of investigation of an and methods of
Engage in self- collaboratively in and investigation in tools, and artistic investigation guide making a aspect of present- following or
materials and tools artwork that is artistic investigation aspect of present- traditional and
directed, creative creative art-making preparation for technologies to of personally work of art or day life using a breaking
to explore personal meaningful and has to choose an day life using a contemporary
making. in response to an making a work of investigate personal relevant content for design to meet an contemporary established
interests, questions, purpose to the approach for contemporary artistic practices to
artistic problem. art. ideas through the creating art. identified goal. practice of art or conventions, to plan
and curiosity. makers. beginning a work of practice of art and plan works of art
art-making process. design. the making of
art. design. and design.
multiple works of
art and design
based on a theme,
idea, or concept.
Demonstrate
Demonstrate Demonstrate
awareness of ethical Explain how
awareness of understanding of
Demonstrate an When making works responsibility to traditional and non-
Demonstrate safe Explain practices, issues, the importance of
Demonstrate safe understanding of of art, utilize and Demonstrate quality oneself and others traditional materials Demonstrate
Investigate
Enduring Understanding: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Essential Question(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively
communicate?
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Apply visual Collaboratively
Individually or Demonstrate in
organizational develop a proposal
Create and tell Identify and classify collaboratively Identify, describe, Select, organize, works of art or
Document, Design or redesign strategies to design for an installation, Redesign an object,
about art that Create art that uses of everyday construct and visually and design images design how visual
Repurpose objects describe, and objects, places, or and produce a work artwork, or space system, place, or
communicates a represents natural objects through representations, document places and words to make and material culture
to make something represent regional systems that meet of art, design, or design that design in response
story about a and constructed drawings, diagrams, diagrams, or maps and/or objects of visually clear and defines, shapes,
new. constructed the identified needs media that clearly transforms the to contemporary
familiar place or environments. sculptures, or other of places that are personal compelling enhances, inhibits,
environments. of diverse users. communicates perception and issues.
object. visual means. part of everyday significance. presentations. and/or empowers
information or experience of a
life. people's lives.
ideas. particular place.
portfolio and objects, artifacts, based on a theme and limitations of technologies have knowledge needed preserving and changed the way evaluating a artwork for a analyzing, selecting,
displaying objects, and/or artworks for
display, explaining and artwork are or concept for an spaces, including impacted the in preserving, presenting two- artwork is collection of collection or curating, and
artifacts, and presentation and
why they were valued over others. exhibit. electronic, for preservation and maintaining, and dimensional, three- preserved, artwork for portfolio presenting artwork
artwork. preservation.
chosen. exhibiting artwork. presentation of presenting objects, dimensional, and presented, and presentation. presentation. for a specific exhibit
artwork. artifacts, and digital artwork. experienced. or event.
artwork.
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
Essential Question(s): What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer? What criteria are considered when selecting work for presentation, a portfolio, or a
collection?
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Analyze the various
Individually or
considerations for
collaboratively, Collaboratively
Ask and answer presenting and Develop a logical
Distinguish between Identify exhibit develop a visual prepare and present Evaluate, select, and
questions such as protecting art in argument for safe Based on criteria, Analyze and Investigate,
different materials space and prepare plan for displaying selected theme- apply methods or
Identify places Explain the purpose where, when, why, various locations, and effective use of analyze and evaluate the compare, and
Analyze
displayed both distinguish how an of people who work different cultures venue presents how museums or and experiencing or collection may collection has on between artists or impact the viewers
museums, galleries, venues, as well as
inside and outside art museum is in and visit record and illustrate ideas and provides other venues reflect collections and influence ideas, personal awareness artwork and social, understanding of
virtual spaces, and the types of
of school. different from other museums and other stories and history information about a history and values exhibitions in beliefs, and of social, cultural, or cultural, and social, cultural,
other venues) personal
buildings. art venues. of life through art. specific concept or of a community. different venues. experiences. political beliefs and political history. and/or political
contributes to experiences they
topic. understandings. experiences.
communities. provide.
Essential Question(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?
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identifying and matter and a work of art and media to create contextual information, structure, relevant making approaches, in the process of collection of works
matter and analyzing relevant analyzing subject relevant and
describing subject identifying the describing relevant subject matter, subject matter, visual contextual and relevant constructing in order to select
describing relevant subject matter, matter, sufficient evidence
matter. characteristics of subject matter and characteristics of elements, and use of information, subject contextual interpretations of and defend a
details. characteristics of characteristics of found in the work
form. characteristics of form, and mood. media to identify ideas matter, and use of information an artwork or plausible critical
form, and use of form and structure, and its various
form. and mood conveyed. media to identify contributes to collection of works. analysis.
media. and use of media to contexts.
ideas and mood understanding
identify ideas and
conveyed. messages or ideas
mood conveyed.
and mood
conveyed.
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: People evaluate art based on various criteria.
Essential Question(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?
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Compare and
explain the
Recognize differences
difference between Determine the Construct
in criteria used to Create a convincing Establish relevant
Classify artwork Use learned art Apply one set of Develop and apply an evaluation of an relevance of criteria evaluations of a
Explain reasons for Evaluate an artwork evaluate works of art and logical criteria in order to
Interpret
Select a preferred based on different vocabulary to criteria to evaluate relevant criteria to artwork based on used by others to work of art or
selecting a based on given depending on styles, argument to evaluate a work of
artwork. reasons for express preferences more than one work evaluate a work of personal criteria evaluate a work of collection of works
preferred artwork. criteria. genres, and media as support an art or collection of
preferences. about artwork. of art. art. and an evaluation of art or collection of based on differing
well as historical and evaluation of art. works.
an artwork based on works. sets of criteria.
cultural contexts.
a set of established
criteria.
Create art that tells a places, and reasons vocabularies of art reflecting current
using descriptive and about events in art based on that reflect places and times in reflect on and developing ideas research, and and personal life
story about a life by which students and design to view interests and
expressive words home, school, or observations of community cultural which people gather reinforce positive from early stages to experimentation to with art-making
experience. make art outside of surroundings in new concerns that could
and art-making. community life. surroundings. traditions. to make and aspects of group fully elaborated explore unfamiliar approaches to create
school. ways through art- be investigated in art-
experience art or identity. ideas. subjects through art- meaningful works of
making. making.
design in the making. art or design.
community.
Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Enduring Understanding: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art.
Essential Question(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?
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Analyze how Compare uses of art
response to art is in a variety of
Understand that Recognize that Through observation, Identify how art is Describe how Appraise the impact
Compare and Analyze how art influenced by Distinguish different societal, cultural, and
people from responses to art infer information used to inform or knowledge of of an artist or a
contrast cultural uses reflects changing understanding the ways art is used to historical contexts
Relate
Recognize that Identify a purpose of different places and change depending about time, place, change beliefs, culture, traditions, group of artists on
of artwork from times, traditions, time and place in represent, establish, and make
people make art. an artwork. times have made art on knowledge of the and culture in which values, or behaviors and history may the beliefs, values,
different times and resources, and which it was created, reinforce, and reflect connections to uses
for a variety of time and place in a work of art was of an individual or influence personal and behaviors of a
places. cultural uses. the available group identity. of art in
reasons. which it was made. created. society. responses to art. society.
resources, and contemporary and
cultural uses. local contexts.