Visual Art Skills
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4th Grade
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5th Grade
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6th Grade
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Fine motor control
Eye-hand coordination
Ability to work with a variety of materials and media
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Work with tempera paint, watercolor, colored pencils, collage, pastels, printmaking, and book-making materials. (I)
Cut and glue accurately. (I)
Use a variety of brush sizes and types. (I)
Work with three-dimensional materials such as clay, wood, sewing, and mixed media. (I)
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Work with tempera paint, watercolor, colored pencils, collage, pastels,
printmaking, and book-making
materials. (R)
Cut and glue accurately. (R)
Use a variety of brush sizes and types. (R)
Work with three-dimensional materials such as clay, wood, sewing, and mixed media. (R)
Measure with a ruler. (R)
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Manipulate shapes using scissors and glue. (R)
Controlling paint: amount of paint and water on brush, size of brush, (R)
Fashion a relief image in clay. (I)
Carve a relief image in rubber stamps and linocut prints. (R)
Record edges with a contour line. (R)
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Understand and apply the elements (line, shape, color, texture) and principles of art (positive and negative space, composition, balance, unity, repetition, rhythm, and variation):
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Represent objects, people, animals, landscapes, cityscapes through drawing (I)
Compose creatively with shapes in two and three dimensions (I)
Understand the role of chance and imagination in the art making process. (I)
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Represent objects, people, animals, landscapes, cityscapes through drawing (R)
Compose creatively with shapes in two and three dimensions (R)
Understand the role of chance and imagination in the art making process. (R)
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Represent objects, people, animals, landscapes, cityscapes through drawing (R)
Compose creatively with shapes in two and three dimensions (R)
Understand the role of chance and imagination in the art-making process. (R)
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Spatial Organization
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Consider arrangement, balance, and unity of forms within the frame of the composition. (I)
Understand scale, overlapping shapes, positive and negative space, background and foreground. (I)
Construct interesting forms with wood, wire, cloth and clay. (I)
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Consider arrangement, balance, and unity of forms within the frame of the composition. (R)
Understand scale, overlapping shapes, positive and negative space, background and foreground. (R)
Construct interesting forms with wood, wire, cloth and clay. (R)
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Consider arrangement and balance of forms within the frame of the composition (R)
Consider relationship of figure and ground, positive and negative space within the composition (I)
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Observational Skills
Visual Perception
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Use line to delineate forms. (I)
Measurement techniques with hands. (I)
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Use line to delineate forms. (R)
Measurement techniques with hands. (R)
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See and record edges (R)
Blind contour drawing, (I)
Modified contour drawing (I)
Monitor spatial proportions and relationships (I)
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Color Mixing and
Color Theory
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Understanding and applying Color as an expressive medium. (I)
Color schemes: Using Warm and cool colors complementary colors. (I)
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Understanding and applying Color as an expressive medium. (I)
Color schemes: Warm and cool colors. (R)
Primary, secondary and tertiary. (I)
Complementary colors, tints and shades. (I)
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Primary, secondary, tertiary colors, complementary colors, tints and shades (R)
Use color to convey distance (I)
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Visual Art Skills
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7th Grade Drawing and Design
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7th Grade Dimensional Design
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8th Grade Painting
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8th Grade
Ceramics
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8th Grade Photography
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Fine motor skills
Eye-hand Coordination Work with a Variety of Materials
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Control pastels, tempera, watercolor, colored pencils, collage and printmaking.
Cut and glue
accurately.
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Spatial acuity and control:
Model a preconceived form in clay.
Measure and compare relative proportions (I)
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Work with pastels, tempera paint, colored pencils, collage, printmaking, acrylics (I)
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Spatial acuity and control of clay in variety of conditions
(R)
Control major and minor body movements on the potters wheel. (R)
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Work carefully with photographic chemistry (I)
Work with collage, sewing, and drawing (R)
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Application of the Elements and Principles of Art
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Draw geometric shapes (I), objects, people and cityscapes. (R)
Compose creatively with shapes.
Create a sequence of visual ideas in a book. (I)
Communicate ideas through images.
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Draw geometric shapes, natural forms, animals and cityscapes. (I)
Compose creatively with shapes. (R)
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Construct variety of three-dimensional shapes (R)
Compose three-dimensional objects (R)
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Judge photographic contrast and tonality (I)
Create artwork and transfer visual ideas with computer software (Adobe Photoshop) (I)
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Spatial Organization
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Understand scale, overlapping shapes, positive and negative space. (R)
Understanding one and two-point perspective. (R)
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Understand and create simple structural systems and how they can interact with gravity. (I)
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Understand
scale, overlapping shapes. (R)
Use of aerial and linear perspective. (R)
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Make three-dimensional forms by adding and taking away material (R)
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Observational skills
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Use line to delineate form.
Use viewfinder to isolate interesting composition. (I)
Measure with a ruler.
Use grid to enlarge drawings. (I)
Understand the proportions of the face and figure. (I)
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Measure, and compare relative proportions. (I)
Measure accurately and use simple geometry. (R)
Find perpendicular angles, measure angles with a protractor, use pi to find
circumference. (I)
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Use line to delineate form.
Use viewfinder to isolate an interesting composition. (I)
Measure with a ruler. (R)
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Follow complex steps to create pots on a potters wheel (R)
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Follow complex technical steps to create photogra-
phic prints in the darkroom
with chemistry.(I)
Follow in depth instructions in Adobe Photoshop to create designs. (I)
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Color Mixing and Theory
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Understand color as an expressive medium. (R)
Create
texture and atmosphere with paint. (I)
Color schemes: complementary colors, warm and cool colors, tints and shades, primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. (R)
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Understand color as an expressive medium. (R)
Color symbolism:
Creation of texture and atmosphere with paint. (I)
Color Schemes:
monochromatic color, warm and cool colors, tints and shades, primary, secondary and tertiary colors. (R)
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Understand, Create, and Manipulate Three Dimensional Space in a Two Dimensional Medium
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Use one and two-point perspective in a drawing (R)
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Use value and
chiaroscuro as a means of creating volume and depth
Use one-point perspective to create depth. (I)
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Transferring two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional forms (R)
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Isolating composing a photograph based on observation (I)
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Use of the Language of Art to Describe and Interpret Works of Art
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Class critiques:
analysis of other students’ artwork. (R)
Self-analysis and self-reflection in terms of the elements of art. (R)
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Analysis and interpretation of other students’ artwork. (R)
Self-analysis of photographic work. (R)
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Art History and Cultural Context
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Attain familiarity with wide range of works of art by major artists who inspire various assignments. (R)
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Learn skills used by ancient cultures for building functional and sculptural ceramics (R)
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Attain familiarity with various master photographers who inspire various assign-
ments (I)
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