Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
EQ: How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through artmaking?
Skills Examples
- Discuss how art can be used to express ideas in poems and short stories.
- Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
- Discuss the relationships between the elements of art.
- Use historical and cultural artworks to answer questions about daily life.
- Discuss how we encounter art and artists in everyday life.
Vocabulary
- Creativity
- Criteria
- Critique
- Design
- Media
- Mixed media
- Monochromatic
- Principles of design
- Rhythm
- Technology
- Visual image
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
