Colorado Academic Standards Online
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clear Content Area: Visual Arts - 2022 // Grade Level: Third Grade // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
Visual Arts - 2022
Third Grade, Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. See oneself as a participant in visual art and design by experiencing, viewing, or making.
- 3. Practice critical and analytical skills by using academic language to discuss works of art and visual culture.
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of expertise in skills and techniques for personal and/or professional endeavors.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Investigate works of art and design to recognize how to create meaning with purpose and intent.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify historical and cultural ideas evident in works of visual art and design.
- Use the language of visual art and design as a tool to help determine artistic intent.
- Discuss how the use of a material supports or detracts from intended meaning.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Recognize personal characteristics, preferences, thoughts and feelings as one explores one's own art or the work of others. (Critical Thinking and Analysis)
- Students can cite evidence to demonstrate understanding and support an analysis of a text or work of art such as but not limited to connecting an artist's color choices to emotions. (Critical Thinking and Analysis)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students develop ownership over self-expression?
- How can students use choices to plan for intended outcomes?
- How can students investigate works of art and design to recognize how artists and designers create meaning?
- How can students explore, through art, the cultures that make their community/region unique?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- One can read artwork to uncover visual information.
Visual Arts - 2022
Third Grade, Standard 2. Envision and Critique to Reflect
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Visually and/or verbally articulate how visual art and design are a means for communication.
- 4. Critique connections between visual art and historic and contemporary philosophies.
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of expertise in skills and techniques for personal and/or professional endeavors.
- 9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of how intent and purpose are informed by research and experimentation.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Use peer feedback and self-reflection to inform next steps and improve works of art and design.
- Describe how research informed a personal work of art.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Experiment to find ways that articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and/or nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts (including multilingual) which includes visual art and design. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Research to find, demonstrate an understanding of and value different perspectives expressed by others in works of art and design. (Interpersonal Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students explain why there are different opinions about art?
- How do students appreciate and value their opinions?
- How do students self-evaluate their works of art?
- How can students speak with intention about art?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artmaking incorporates reciprocal feedback.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. See oneself as a participant in visual art and design by experiencing, viewing, or making.
- 2. Visually and/or verbally articulate how visual art and design are a means for communication.
- 4. Critique connections between visual art and historic and contemporary philosophies.
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of expertise in skills and techniques for personal and/or professional endeavors.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Synthesize ideas about personal works of art and imagine possible next steps.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Demonstrate understanding of how research inspires development of ideas.
- Envision solutions to artmaking problems.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Establish goals for a finished artwork and plan out steps accordingly such as sketching, receiving feedback, revising, etc. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Students can synthesize information from multiple sources to demonstrate understanding of a topic such as art history, popular culture, or personal research. (Critical Thinking)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students be inspired by the everyday world around them?
- How can students use personal observation to gather ideas?
- How can students provide productive feedback for possible next steps?
- How can students explain artmaking choices and possible next steps for personal artwork?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Ideas are developed over time throughout the artmaking process.
Visual Arts - 2022
Third Grade, Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of expertise in skills and techniques for personal and/or professional endeavors.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Demonstrate how working collaboratively can enhance the artistic process.
- Demonstrate understanding of how experimentation helps develop making with purpose and intent.
- Determine whether a work of art is finished.
- Demonstrate how the art room is a community of makers.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Create works of art and design through the use of various technologies. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Synthesize art and design ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Form and test hypotheses to guide problem-solving in works of art and design. (Perseverance and Resilience)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students select appropriate tools and media to communicate an idea?
- How can students use collaboration to enhance their thinking and making?
- How can students use visual language intentionally?
- What questions can a student ask to determine if the work of art is finished?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Different skills are accessed when working individually and collaboratively.
Visual Arts - 2022
Third Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. See oneself as a participant in visual art and design by experiencing, viewing, or making.
- 2. Visually and/or verbally articulate how visual art and design are a means for communication.
- 4. Critique connections between visual art and historic and contemporary philosophies.
- 5. Interpret works of art and design in the contexts of varied traditions, histories, and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Recognize how works of visual art and design communicate meaning both within a community and between diverse cultures.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Investigate how visual art and design can make connections between subjects, disciplines or events.
- Connect the meaning of personal works of art to historical, cultural or community events.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Consider purpose, formality of context, audience and distinct cultural norms when planning content, mode, delivery and expression in art and design. (Critical Thinking and Analysis)
- Recognize how members of a community rely on each other, considering contributions of artists and designers as applicable such as but not limited to historical mural collaborations by artists of the WPA Federal Art Project and contemporary collaborations like the Conejos Mural Project. (Interpersonal Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students' communities be reflected in their art?
- How can students make connections between various disciplines through art?
- How can the understanding of a student's culture enhance the understanding of other cultures?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artists work within the context of their communities.
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