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clear Content Area: // Grade Level: Seventh Grade // Standard Category: 3. Invent and Discover to Create
Visual Arts - 2019
Seventh 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 mastery in skills and techniques.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Plan, anticipate outcomes and use feedback to grow as an artist.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Plan, revise and refine an idea through a series of display-ready works of art.
- Generate works of art based on selected themes or anticipated goals.
- Identify or demonstrate changes in personal style or skill level in works of art over time.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Look for and value different perspectives expressed by others in planning and creating. (Personal Skills: Adaptability/Flexibility)
- Assess personal strengths and limitations in order to grow as an artist. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
- Students can generate questions to guide their research into making, gather information from multiple sources, determine biases and credibility of sources, and use evidence to create. (Entrepreneurial Skills)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can a student explore the progression of an artist's work in order to understand how artists grow?
- How can students persist in the steps of creative process in order to present their artworks?
- How can a student utilize a theme or goal to guide their thinking and making processes?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artists and designers can incorporate cooperative learning.
- Artmaking involves conceptual and project-based learning.
- Artmaking uses imagining to develop artistic vision.
- Artists and designers can use organized critiques.
- Artists and designers synthesize knowledge, skill and imagination to solve problems and express meaning.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
- 7. Allow imagination, curiosity and wonder to guide inquiry and research.
- 9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Demonstrate technical skills and processes to achieve desired results.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Create works of art from observation, photographs and stored mental images adding personal interpretations.
- Demonstrate and apply perceptual skills to create works of art.
- Research and communicate personal ideas and interests in works of art.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Innovate from failure, connect learning across domains and recognize new opportunities while creating works of art using technical skills. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Informed Risk Taking)
- Form and test hypotheses in regard to art media and techniques to guide problem-solving. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Students can synthesize information from multiple sources to demonstrate understanding of a topic. (Entrepreneurial Skills)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students use various imagery to inspire their work but add their own twist or interpretation?
- How can students develop attention and awareness in order to create works of art?
- How can students research and use ideas that are relevant to them to create a meaningful artwork?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artmaking involves project-based learning.
- Artists connect planning to implementation.
- Artists connect learning a skill to persevering to master the skill.
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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.
- 6. Create works of visual art and design that demonstrate increasing levels of mastery in skills and techniques.
- 7. Allow imagination, curiosity and wonder to guide inquiry and research.
- 9. Persist in the creative process and innovate from failure.
Grade Level Expectation:
3. Utilize current and available technology as a primary medium to create original works of art.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Explore ways to manipulate works of art through technology.
- Utilize current and available technologies to create new forms of 2-D and 3-D art.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Meaning Making:
- Create art and design through the use of technologies. (Professional Skills: Use Information and Communication Technologies)
- Synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways in works of art. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can students explore the tools of technology in order to transform images and ideas?
- How can students use technology to create innovative artworks?
Learning Experience and Transfer:
- Artmaking involves project-based learning.
- Artists connect planning to implementation.
- Artmaking involves imagining to develop artistic vision.
- Artists and designers synthesize knowledge, skill and imagination to solve problems and express meaning.
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