Grades 5 - 8 National Visual Arts Standards
1. Content Standard: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Achievement Standard:
Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas
2. Content Standard: Using knowledge of structures and functions Achievement Standard:
Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas
3. Content Standard: Choosing and evaluation a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas Achievement Standard:
Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthestics that communicate intended meaning in artworks
4. Content Standard: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures Achievement Standard:
Students know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts 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.
5. Content Standard: Reflecting upon assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others Achievement Standard:
Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures
6. Content Standard: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines Achievement Standard:
Students compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts
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