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Content Area: // Grade Level: Second Grade // Standard Category: 3. Invent and Discover to Create

Visual Arts - 2019

Second Grade, Standard 3. Invent and Discover to Create

| Read the Colorado Essential Skills | Expand Set of GLEs Below

Prepared Graduates:

6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.

Grade Level Expectation:

1. Plan and create works of art by exploring various media and creating meaning through symbolization.

Evidence Outcomes:

Students Can:

Choose appropriate materials to make art.
Create finished works of art.
Explain choices made in the artmaking process.
Respect and care for classroom materials.

Academic Contexts and Connections:

Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:

Synthesize ways to symbolize ideas in original and surprising ways in works of art and design. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
Form and test hypotheses to guide problem-solving of ways to symbolize intended meaning in the planning, making and display of works of art and design. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)

Inquiry Questions:

How can students make works of art that communicate?
How can students identify and create symbols in works of art?
How can students test the qualities of different materials?
How can students describe their artmaking experience?
How can students use metaphor or analogy to create works of art and enhance communication of ideas?

Learning Experience and Transfer:

Art reflects ideas.

Prepared Graduates:

The P-12 concepts and skills that all students who complete the Colorado education system must master to ensure their success in a postsecondary and workforce setting.

Grade Level Expectation:

What do students need to know?

Grade Level Expectation: High Schools:
The articulation of the concepts and skills of a standard that indicates a student is making progress toward being a prepared graduate.

Grade Level Expectations:
The articulation, at each grade level, the concepts and skills of a standard that indicates a student is making progress toward being ready for high school.

Evidence Outcomes:

How do we know that a student can do it?

The indication that a student is meeting an expectation at the mastery level.

Academic Context and Connections:

Academic context and connections are the subject-specific elements needed to create context for learning. This right side section highlights essential skills, practices and other important connections necessary for students to understand, apply and transfer the knowledge and skills within the Grade Level Expectation.

Inquiry Questions:

Sample questions intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectation.

Relevance and Application:

Examples of how the grade level expectation is applied at home, on the job or in a real-world, relevant context.

Nature of the Discipline:

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May

Embed standards throughout daily routines, within and across the environment and activities to ensure developmentally appropriate learning opportunities.

Colorado Essential Skills

The critical skills needed to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce or educational opportunities beyond high school embedded within statute (C.R.S. 22-7-1005) and identified by the Colorado Workforce Development Committee.

Colorado Essential Skills and Mathematical Practices

This section describes ways students engage with the mathematical content using mathematical practices and essential skills needed to prepare students to successfully enter the workforce or educational opportunities beyond high school pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute 22-7-1005 and identified by the Colorado Workforce Development Committee.

Inquiry Questions

The sample questions that are intended to promote deeper thinking, reflection and refined understandings precisely related to the grade level expectation.

Coherence Connections

This section describes how the content described by the Grade Level Expectation and Evidence Outcomes builds from content learned in prior grades, connects to content in the same grade, and supports student learning in later grades.

Elaboration on the GLE

This section provides greater context for the Grade Level Expectation (GLE) through a description of the understanding about the core ideas that should be developed by students.

Colorado Essential Skills and Science and Engineering Practices

Skills and major practices that scientists employ as they investigate and build models and theories about the world. These terms are used to emphasize that engaging in scientific investigation requires not only skill but also knowledge that is specific to each practice.

Cross Cutting Concepts

The crosscutting concepts have application across all domains of science. As such, they provide one way of linking across the domains through core ideas.

Computer Science Practices

This section highlights computer science practices connected to the GLE which describe the behaviors and ways of thinking that computationally literate students use to fully engage in today’s data-rich and interconnected world. The practices naturally integrate with one another and contain language that intentionally overlaps to illuminate the connections among them.

Essential Questions

These "big picture" questions ask students to more deeply explore the concepts and skills expressed in the GLE.

Essential Reasoning Skills

These skills develop critical thinking, building awareness to multiple perspectives, and engage students in "thinking about their thinking" and to consider their own attitudes, beliefs, and biases on issues.

Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application

Expand and Connect

Ideas that can be used to expand student thinking around the concepts, connect to other musical concepts, or connect to other content areas outside of music.

Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making

Ways in which students demonstrate the ability to form, grapple with, and convey concepts and ideas through visual art and design with real-world application.

Learning Experience and Transfer

Ideas that can be used to expand student thinking, encourage conceptual curiosity, and connect multiple disciplines and literacies.

Nature and Skills of History

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Nature and Skills of Geography

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Nature and Skills of Economics

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Nature and Skills of Civics

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation.

Disciplinary, Information, & Media Literacy

The disciplinary, information, and media literacy skills necessary to demonstrate mastery of the Evidence Outcomes.

Nature of Dance

The characteristics and viewpoint one keeps as a result of mastering the grade level expectation

Health Skills

This section connects and focuses on the key health specific skills connected to this grade level expectation.

Components of a Physically Literate Individual

Connects the GLE to physical literacy and how it supports students ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.

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