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Elementary Art
Grades K-6
Visual Art – Elementary Curriculum Course Descriptions
Visual Art – Elementary Curriculum Course Descriptions
Art in grades K-5 offers both a body of content knowledge and a spiraling scope and sequence of discipline-specific learning experiences that combine to develop artistic skills, abilities, and habits of mind. These learning experiences reflect the Art Department’s philosophy of art education and its program goals and program objectives, State and National Visual Art Standards, GPS Strategic Goals and 21st Century Skills.
The philosophy speaks to a broad rationale for studying art and addresses art education as unique opportunities to:
Explore, develop, and express alternate ways of knowing, being and doing.
Develop art production skills.
Foster creativity and develop creative problem-solving abilities.
Develop artistic ways of being and habits of mind.
Understand and apply artistic processes such as planning, refining, and creating.
Develop responsible studio behaviors.
Develop visual literacy skills for visual learners in a highly visual world.
Make connections across personal and global life-experiences.
Kindergarten Art Students
Kindergarten Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.
Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.
Introduction to:
Introduction to:
Clay Techniques
Color Mixing
Drawing
Landscape
Mixed Media
Printmaking
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative works of art.
Introduction to decision making through:
Introduction to decision making through:
Media practice and planning
Idea planning
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Grade One Art Students
Grade One Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Clay Techniques
Drawing and Painting
Mixed Media/collage
Sculpture
Digital media
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Introduction to decision making through:
Introduction to decision making through:
Media practice and planning
Idea planning
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Grade Two Art Students
Grade Two Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, value, and texture.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, value, and texture.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Clay Techniques
Drawing and Painting
Landscape
Portraiture
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Introduction to decision making through:
Introduction to decision making through:
Media planning
Planning
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Grade Three Art Students
Grade Three Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Drawing and Painting
Mixed Media
Sculpture
Figure (Body) Proportion
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Decision making through:
Decision making through:
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Grade Four Art Students
Grade Four Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Drawing
Relief sculpture
Mixed Media
Digital Media
Linear Perspective and Spatial strategies
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Decision making through:
Decision making through:
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Digital platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Grade Five Art Students
Grade Five Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Drawing and Painting
Sculpture
Digital media
Mixed Media
Photography
Design
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Decision making through:
Decision making through:
Media planning and reflection
Collaboration
Idea planning and reflection
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Digital platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
Field Trip Experience:
Field Trip Experience:
The Grade Five curriculum includes a visit to a Connecticut art museum for the learning and experience of attending an art gallery.
Grade Six Art Students
Grade Six Art Students
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Through experimentation, build skills and expand previous learning in various media and approaches to art-making to produce works of art that use artistic elements such as line, shape, space, color, and texture and Principles of Design such as, movement, balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, pattern, rhythm and unity.
Introduction to and development of:
Introduction to and development of:
Drawing and Painting
Digital Media and Processes
Sculpture
Mixed Media
Portraiture
Two Point Perspective and Spatial Strategies
Discuss various works and styles of exemplar art to describe and discuss meaning and develop their own narrative and illustrative works of art.
Decision making through:
Decision making through:
Media planning and reflection
Idea planning and reflection
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Share, present and discuss personal works of art though:
Whole group discussions
Digital Platform
Peer discussions
School wide art show
Learning is assessed through:
Learning is assessed through:
Media/technique planning and application
Idea planning and development
Responding to, and reflecting on, exemplar and personal works of art
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