AE17.VA.6.3

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 6 - Visual Arts

AE17.VA.6.3
Develop new ideas through open-ended experiments, using various materials, methods and approaches in creating works of art.

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?

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.

Aligned Learning Resources

What Is Real and What Is Not

Creating Art Using Ratios