AE17.VA.2.10

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.2.10
Perceive and describe characteristics of natural and man-made environments.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
EQ: How do life experiences the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?

Skills Examples

Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.
Discuss how artists make choices that communicate ideas in works of art.
Discuss how artists use familiar symbols to express and create artwork.
Discuss how the artistic process can lead to "happy accidents" discovering something new.
Use basic self-assessment strategies to improve their artworks.
Discuss the difference between assessing the quality of an artwork and personal preference for the work.
Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist.
Discuss and recognize how artists use different materials and processes to create art.
Recognize patterns and textures that can be found in many places in and around the school and community.
Use statements that include artistic terminology such as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks I see."

Vocabulary

Principles of design

Balance

Brainstorming
Composition
Concepts
Characteristic
Elements of art

Space
Value

Expressive properties
Foreground
Middle ground
Neutral colors
Resist

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

COS Examples

Example: Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.