Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Skills Examples
- Make, share and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.
- Use introductory skills, techniques, and elements of art to create a composition
- Demonstrate drawing techniques, such as hatching, cross-hatching, shading, and stippling.
- Create a group project about a current or world event.
- Examine careers and identify and role - play various jobs of artists.
- Research a subject or idea that has personal meaning to create a work of art.
- Use the elements of visual arts to create an artwork that depicts emotions.
- Use a variety of media and techniques in two and three dimensions to create imagery from experience, observation and imagination.
- Demonstrate proper clean-up and/or disposal of equipment and materials.
- Demonstrate art room safety and procedures.
- Design an environmentally area for the school such as a library or other multi-use learning area.
- Engage for the purpose of personal reflection and ongoing revision, in group critiques.
- Reflect through journal writing artist intent.
Vocabulary
- Artistic ideas and work
- Formal and conceptual vocabulary
- Innovation
- Investigation
- Two-dimensional
- Three-dimensional
- Experimentation
- Conservation
- Craftsmanship
- Linear perspective
- Environmental responsibility
- Prior knowledge
- Museum
- Gallery
- Curator
- Digital
- Horizon Line
- Brainstorming
- Research
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
