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Grade 3 Visual Arts Standards

Standard (Curriculum)

Instruction and Assessment

Standard 1. The student understands and applies visual arts knowledge and skills

1.1 Understands visual arts concepts and vocabulary
Elements
* Uses line to create details
* Recognizes the relationship between 2-D and 3-D form (e.g., circle/sphere)
* Identifies and mixes intermediate colors (e.g., to create analogous color schemes)
* Identifies and uses the spatial concept of positive/negative space
* Uses texture in 2 and 3D work
Principles of Organization (Design)
* Identifies and uses movement within an artwork

1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
* Blends art media for different visual purposes
* Demonstrates proper care of tools and materials
* Uses line to create details

1.3 Understands visual arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
* Describes the differences in style between two artworks

1.4 Demonstrates audience skills in a variety of visual arts settings and performances
* Demonstrates audience response skills

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Standard 2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes

2.1 Understands that there is a creative process in the arts
* Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process

2.2 Understands performance processes in the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and problem-solving
* Present work for others; reflects, and evaluates
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

2.3 Understands a responding process in the arts
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

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Standard 3. The student communicates through visual arts

3.1 Understands that arts express and present ideas and feelings
* Identifies how ideas are expressed through the arts

3.2 Uses visual arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (e.g., inform, motivate)

3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
* Recognizes that aesthetic choices are influenced by environment and experience

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Standard 4. The student makes connections within and across visual arts, to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work

4.1 Demonstrates the connections among visual arts disciplines
* Identifies common compositional elements through arts disciplines (e.g., beginning-middle-end thematic developments, ABA, motif)

4.2 Demonstrates the connections between visual arts and other content areas
* Applies arts knowledge and skills to reinforce learnings in other content areas

4.3 Understands how visual arts impact lifelong choices
* Identifies how the arts impact choice of activities outside of school

4.4 Understands that visual arts shape and reflect culture and history
* Recognizes that artworks reflect culture

4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of visual arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world or work
* Identifies career roles in the arts
* Meets goals and deadlines to complete work

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