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Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
1.) Analyze art work originating in major cultures of the world.


Examples: Asian, European, African, Australia, North and South American

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Contrast unique features of particular art styles.


Examples: Op Art, Folk Art, Impressionism, Surrealism

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
3.) Analyze themes and symbols in art of different cultures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
4.) Analyze ways that culture influences works of art.


Examples: values, beliefs, use of technology, governmental issues

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
5.) Research various uses of the visual arts in business and industry.


Examples: architectural design, commercial design, advertising, television, film, industrial design, multimedia, art careers, environmental design, artists-in-residence

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
6.) Define selected visual art vocabulary.


• Elements of Art

• Analogous Colors

• Monochromatic Colors

• Complementary Colors

• Tone

• Shading

• Cast shadow

• Assemblage

• Found objects

• Sculpture

• Principles of Design

• Vanishing Point

• Horizon Line

• Perspective

• Contour drawing

• Modified contour drawing

• Blind contour drawing

• Realism

• Value

• Caricature

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
7.) Analyze a variety of art works.


Examples: Roy Lichtenstein's Girl at the Piano, William Johnson's Harlem Renaissance, Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
8.) Evaluate the work and style of a selected artist.


Examples: research paper, oral presentation, multimedia presentation

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
9.) Use a variety of media to research the life of a selected artist.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Analyze the impact of the life of a selected artist on culture, history, politics, and economy.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
11.) Interpret ways artists achieve different effects with the elements of art and principles of design.


Example: creating movement by using a variety of directional lines

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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Lesson Plans: 0
12.) Investigate different art careers.


Examples: research, class presentations, field trips to places of business, guest speakers

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
13.) Evaluate the roles art works play in the environment.


Example: monuments: Vietnam War Memorial, Tipoli Fountain

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
14.) Apply criteria in judging works of art.


• Craftsmanship

• Originality

• Composition

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
15.) Make finer discriminations about the elements of art and principles of art when responding to various art forms.


Examples: patterns of light and shadow, surface texture, symmetry, asymmetry, color schemes

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
16.) Analyze aesthetic qualities (meaning, purpose, role) that exist in both natural and man-made objects.


Example: natural-The Alps; man-made-Arc de Triomphe, de l' Etoile

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
17.) Evaluate ways value, harmony, balance, and unity make a work of art pleasing.


Example: examining the use of different values of color to create unity in Leonardo daVinci's Mona Lisa

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
18.) Connect the visual arts with other content areas.


Examples: identifying different types of animals in science, creating geometric shapes and graphing pictures in mathematics, designing covers for classical works of music, designing sets for theaters, creating lines of movement in dance

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
19.) Describe imaginative ways of perceiving the environment.


Examples: illustrating abstraction from reality through Mondrian's Tree series; Paul Klee's fantasy creatures

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
20.) Examine mood and feeling generated by art forms.


Example: Giacoma Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash using lines and movement to create feelings of happiness and excitement

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
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Lesson Plans: 0
21.) Compare various artistic solutions to environmental and social problems.


Examples: comparing conventional car to a solar car, a rectangular building to a geodesic dome building

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
22.) Apply steps artists use in the production of art.


• Inception of an idea

• Elaboration and refinement of an idea

• Execution in a medium

• Evaluation of the product

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Use a variety of ideas and personal experiences as sources of subject matter for art production.


Examples: personal experiences and observations of changing condition in nature; the way people appear as they move or change position; people engaging in a variety of activities; animals moving and resting; buildings and vehicles from many points of view; sensory reactions to people, objects, and nature

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
24.) Create art using the elements of art and principles of design.


Example: using various lines, shapes, and/or colors to create optical illusions and perspective drawings

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
25.) Use various visual relationships in creating original art productions.


Examples: using the changing atmospheric effects on objects, proportion, and perspective (one and two point)

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
26.) Produce art using a variety of two-dimensional production methods and materials.


Examples: drawing with pencil, crayon, markers, pens, oil pastels, charcoal; using contour, gesture, and value techniques; using various types of paints to create art work; using mixed media including printmaking on a variety of surfaces, using watercolor for wet onto dry painting and shading on wet and dry surfaces

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
27.) Produce art using a variety of three-dimensional production methods and materials.


Examples: materials: clay, wire, wood, papier-mâché; methods: carving, sculpting, forming

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
28.) Demonstrate proficiency in the use of art techniques to create artwork.


Examples: wet brushing, dry brushing, washing; using mixed media, wire sculpture, carving, casting, constructing, crosshatching, pointillism, gradation, tempera

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
29.) Use multimedia and other technology to create visual imagery and design.


Example: using a stop-action video camera to create an animated video

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6 - 8
Visual Arts
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
30.) Produce graphic art symbols, signs, posters, and wall designs for specific purposes.


Examples: school events, environmental issues

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