ICCSD Student Goals/Standards
STANDARDS and BENCHMARKS
Art (visual)
What Students Are Expected to Know and be Able to
Do
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes
Using knowledge of structures
(art elements, principles of design) and functions
Choosing and evaluating a
range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
Understanding the visual arts
in relation to history and cultures
Reflecting upon and assessing
the characteristics and merits of their work and work of
others
Making connections between
visual arts and other disciplines
BENCHMARKS
Description of the Specific Level of Information and Skill by
Grade
Kindergarten through Second
Grades
Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes
- explores, identifies,
and uses basic art materials
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- uses a variety of art
techniques with basic materials (ex. crayon techniques:
coloring, rubbing, resist)
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- knows and explains
some simple art processes (ex. steps involved in making a
pinch pot)
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- begins to use art
materials in a safe responsible way
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Using knowledge of structures
(art elements, principles of design) and functions
- understands and uses
some art elements and principles of design
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- begins to understand
the functions (uses) of art
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Choosing and evaluating a range
of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
- explores
communication through art
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- understands that art
processes involve observation, imagination and
emotion
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- shows awareness of
subject matter, basic symbols and ideas in their work and
art by other artists
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Understanding the visual arts
in relation to history and cultures
- understands that
visual art has a history
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- begins to distinguish
between similarities and differences from artwork of
various cultures
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Reflecting upon and assessing
the characteristics and merits of their work and work of
others
- knows that artwork
communicates ideas
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- understands that
people’s experiences and cultural background can
influence artwork
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Making connections between
visual arts and other disciplines
- begins to discover
how the visual arts share and overlap concepts with other
disciplines
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- understands how
visual arts communicates ideas in other
disciplines
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Third and Fourth Grades
Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes
- expands knowledge and
application of basic art materials
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- uses and identifies a
variety of art techniques with basic art materials (ex.
painting techniques: wet on wet, dry brush, color
mixing)
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- understands and
identifies basic art processes (ex. steps involved in
making clay coil pot)
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- uses art materials in
a safe responsible way
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Using knowledge of structures
(art elements, principles of design) and functions
- understands and uses
most art elements and some principles of design to
communicate ideas
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- identifies some of
the functions (uses) of art
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Choosing and evaluating a range
of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
- understands and
identifies ways that art can communicate
meaning
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- understands and
identifies that the art process involves observation,
imagination, and emotion
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- understands and
identifies subject matter, basic symbols and ideas in
their work and the work of other artists
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Understanding the visual arts
in relation to history and cultures
- understands the
similarities and differences in the characteristics of
artworks from various cultures
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- understands the
cultural purposes and historical context of a variety of
art works
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Reflecting upon and assessing
the characteristics and merits of their work and work of
others
- distinguishes among
multiples purposes for creating art
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- understands how
one’s own artworks, and art works of others produce
a variety of responses
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Making connections between
visual arts and other disciplines
- identifies and uses
connections between the visual arts and other disciplines
in the curriculum
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- begins to use visual
arts to communicate ideas in other
disciplines
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Fifth and Sixth
Grades
Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes
- understands and uses
in depth a wide range of art materials
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- explores, identifies
and uses a wide range of art techniques (ex. clay texture
techniques: carve, stamp-on, cut out, add on)
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- identify and compare
art processes
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Using knowledge of structures
(art elements, principles of design) and functions
- selects and uses the
qualities of art elements to improve communication of
their ideas
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- understands most of
the principles of design and are able to apply them to
their artwork
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- identifies and uses
some of the functions (uses) of art
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Choosing and evaluating a range
of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
- identifies and compares subject matter,
basic symbols, and ideas in their work and art by other artists
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- identifies and
compares the process of observation, imagination, and
emotion
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- identifies and compares ways that
art communicates meaning
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Understanding the visual arts
in relation to history and cultures
- understands the
historical and cultural context of a variety of art
objects
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- understands how the
resources of a culture influence their art
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Reflecting upon and assessing the
characteristics and merits of their work and work of
others
- identifies intentions
of those creating artworks
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- uses knowledge of art
structures to compare and contrast works of
art
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- understands and
compares contemporary and historic meaning in specific
artworks
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Making connections between
visual arts and other disciplines
- identifies and
describes ways in which the subject matter of other
disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with
the visual arts
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- uses visual arts to
enhance communication in other disciplines
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Seventh Grade
Understanding and applying
media, techniques, and processes
- makes choices in
using and evaluating a wide range of art
materials
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- chooses and makes use
of art techniques to solve specific problems
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- reflects, plans, and
chooses appropriate art processes to solve specific
problems
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Using knowledge of structures
(art elements, principles of design) and functions
- uses art elements and
principles of design to solve specific
problems
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- makes educated
choices about the function of their art work
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- creates and evaluates
the effectiveness of art work in terms of its
function
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Choosing and evaluating a range
of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
- reflects on how
subject matter, symbols, and ideas relate to their art
and other artwork
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- makes choices in
using and evaluating observation, imagination and emotion
in art
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- reflects and chooses
ways of communicating through art
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Understanding the visual arts
in relation to history and cultures
- understands and
identifies historical and cultural contexts of a variety
of art objects.
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- understands and
identifies how resources of a culture influence their
arts
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Reflecting upon and assessing
the characteristics and merits of their work and work of
others
- compares multiple
purposes for creating works of art
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- analyzes and
describes meanings of specific artworks through
aesthetic, historical and cultural context
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- describes and
compares a variety of responses to artwork
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Making connections between
visual arts and other disciplines
- compares
characteristics of the visual arts with a particular
historical period or style to ideas, issues, or themes in
humanities and science
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- identifies and
chooses ways to use visual arts to communicate ideas in
other curricular areas
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