National Visual Arts Standards
Content Standard #1: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques and Process
Achievement Standard K-4:
Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes.
Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responces.
Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiances, and stories.
Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responcible manner.
Achievement Standard 5 - 8:
Students select media, techniques, and process: analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas: and reflect upon the effectivenessof their choices.
Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques and processes to enhance communicatio of their experiences and ideas.
Achievement Standard 9 - 12:
Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks.
Students conceive and create works of visual art the demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques and processes they use.
Achievement Standard Advanced:
Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectivness in art in at least one visual arts medium.
Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Content Standard #2:Using Knowledge of Structures and Function
Achievement Standard K-4:
Students know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas.
Students describe how different expressive features ansorganizational principles cause different responses.
Students use visual structures and functions of art communicate ideas.
Achievement Standard 5 - 8:
Students generalize about the effects of visual structure and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work.
Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effectivein the communication of ideas.
Students select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas.
Achievement Standard 9 - 12:
Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgement about the characteristics and structures to acomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art.
Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions.
Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.
Achievement Standard Advanced:
Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives.
Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions.