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Grade 5 Visual Arts Standards

Standard (Curriculum)

Instruction and Assessment

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

1.1 Elements of Arts (line, value, color, texture, space, shape, and form)
* Understands and demonstrates the use of line through direction, type, and quality
* Understands and demonstrates the relationship of 2D shapes and 3D forms
* Uses a color wheel to demonstrate color relationships
* Recognizes and demonstrates actual and simulated texture
* Recognizes and uses spatial devices to create depth
* Recognizes and demonstrates a range of values
* Principles of Organization (Design) (balance, emphasis/dominance, proportion, movement/rhythm, repetition/pattern, variety, harmony, and unity)
* Identifies and applies principles of balance, repetition, emphasis, and movement in an artwork

1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
* Uses a variety of techniques in observational drawing
* Uses different 2 and 3D art mediums to create textural effects
* Combines media for visual and expressive purposes

1.3 Understands visual arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
* Identifies specific attributes of artworks of various artists, cultures, and times using arts vocabulary

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

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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
* Expresses ideas and feelings through the arts

3.2 Uses visual arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Creates and/or performs an artwork to communicate for a given purpose with instructor direction

3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
* Explains how personal aesthetic criteria is reflected in artwork

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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
* Describes skills, concepts, and vocabulary common among arts disciplines

4.2 Demonstrates the connections between visual arts and other content areas
* Identifies skills, concepts, and vocabulary common to the arts and other content areas

4.3 Understands how visual arts impact lifelong choices
* Analyzes how the arts impact personal and community choices

4.4 Understands that visual arts shape and reflect culture and history
* Identifies specific attributes of artworks that reflect culture

4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of visual arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world or work
* Describes career roles in the arts
* Demonstrates arts skills used in the world of work

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