MN State Standards Visual Arts
4th Grade Standards
5th Grade Standards
6th Grade Standards
7th Grade Standards
8th Grade Standards
MN State Standards Media Arts
7th Grade Standards
8th Grade Standards
High School Standards
Grade Level Objectives
When Looking at the standards- here is how the content categories/objectives are broken down
Foundations: Focus on the basic Elements of Art
Create: Focus on how or what students create themselves
Present: Focus on showing artwork off, and how it is arranged
Respond: Focus on how students analyze and take in directions and or reflect off their own artworks.
Connect: Focus on how you can connect artwork to daily lives or past history.
Trading Cards
5.4.4.8.1 Analyze form and content in visual representations that convey messages
I CAN: Look closely at a picture or artwork to see how it’s made (form) and what it’s trying to say (content).
5.4.4.8.2 Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art
I CAN: Use the same rules or checklist to compare and judge two or more pieces of art.
5.4.2.2.1 Generate new ideas by combining dissimilar ideas together.
I CAN: Create new ideas by combining random things together.
Element of Shape: Freeform Flip
5.4.2.3.1 Create art that is representational and nonrepresentational using artistic foundations. For example: Naturalism and abstraction
I CAN: Make art that looks like real things (representational) and art that doesn’t look like real things (nonrepresentational) by using the basic rules of art like color, shape, and line.
5.4.2.2.1 Generate new ideas by combining dissimilar ideas together.
I CAN: Create new ideas by combining random things together.
Element of Form: Draw 3D/Create Clay Sculptures
5.4.2.2.2 2. Incorporate personal choice into devising a solution for a creative art problem
I CAN: Make choices to create your own solution for an art project.
Element of Value: Value Worksheet
5.4.2.4.1 Revise in-process artwork, on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.
I CAN: Change or improve your artwork after talking with classmates and getting new ideas.
Element of Space: Museum Activity
5.4.5.9.1 Describe form and content in visual representations that convey personal identity.
I CAN: Talk about how a piece of art looks (form) and what it says about the artist (content) to show who they are.
5.4.5.10.1 1. Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values or behaviors of an individual or society. (Native American - look into)
I CAN: Learn how art can teach people something or influence the way they think or act.
5.4.3.5.1 Identify considerations for presenting art in various locations.
I CAN: Think about where your art will be shown and how to display it so people can see and enjoy it.
5.4.3.6.1 Select artwork for display in a collection with a specific purpose or theme.
I CAN: Pick artwork to show in a group based on a special idea or theme that connects them.
5.4.3.6.2 Identify how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.
I CAN: Understand how a museum or art show uses displays to share ideas and teach people about a specific topic.
Element of Texture: Eric Carle Lesson
5.4.2.3.2 Identify issues involving copying and originality in art making
I CAN: Learn the difference between copying someone else’s art and making your own original art.
5.4.2.3.1 Create art that is representational and nonrepresentational using artistic foundations. For example: Naturalism and abstraction
I CAN: Make art that looks like real things (representational) and art that doesn’t look like real things (nonrepresentational) by using the basic rules of art like color, shape, and line.
5.4.4.7.1 Describe aesthetic characteristics of the natural world and constructed environments. (Multimedia)
I CAN: Talk about the beautiful details you see in nature (like trees, flowers, and animals) and in things people build (like buildings, bridges, and parks)
Art Telephone: GAME
5.4.2.2.1 Generate new ideas by combining dissimilar ideas together.
I CAN: Create new ideas by combining random things together.
Identity Map:
5.5.2.3.1 1. Using artistic foundations, create art that redesigns artworks, objects, places or systems.
Use what you know about art to create something new by redesigning an artwork, object, place, or system.
5.5.2.2.2 . Generate plans for art that investigates a social, cultural, or personal theme.
Create a plan for an artwork that explores an important topic about society, culture, or something personal to you.
5.5.5.9.1 Use knowledge of one’s own culture and heritage to explore personal identity.
Use what you know about your own culture and family background to learn more about who you are.
Art Show Artwork:
5.5.3.6.1 Identify and describe the choices an artist makes when assembling a presentation or a portfolio.
Explain the decisions an artist makes when putting together a presentation or collection of their artwork, called a portfolio.
This is an extra add on for when these students will be in art they will choose works to be shown ahead of time
Principle of Balance
5.5.4.8.1: Compare and contrast criteria used to evaluate works of art.
Explain how different rules or standards for judging art are similar and how they are different.
Principle of Contrast
5.5.4.8.1: Compare and contrast criteria used to evaluate works of art.
Explain how different rules or standards for judging art are similar and how they are different.
Principle of Movement/Rhythm
5.5.2.4.1 Create artist statements to describe choices in artmaking, using art vocabulary.
Write an artist statement that explains the choices you made in your artwork, using art words to describe it.
Principle of Pattern
5.5.2.2.1: 1. Generate and document an innovative idea for art making
Come up with a creative art idea and write it down.
Principle of Unity
5.5.2.3.2 . Explain the ethical responsibility of appropriation in artmaking.
Explain why it’s important to be respectful and responsible when using someone else’s ideas or images in your artwork.
5.5.3.5.1 Compare and contrast methods for preparing and presenting art
Describe how different ways of getting art ready and showing it to others are alike and how they are different.
Who Made it:
5.5.5.10.1 . Make inferences about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created, citing evidence.
Make smart guesses about when, where, and in what culture an artwork was made, and use clues from the artwork to support your answer.
5.5.3.6.2 . Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others.
Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are considered more special or important than others.
5.5.4.7.1 . Identify and interpret works of art that reveal how people live around the world and what they value.
Find and explain artworks that show how people live in different parts of the world and what is important to them.
5.5.4.8.1 Establish the validity of perceived cultural symbols within an artwork.
Show and explain how the cultural symbols in an artwork are meaningful and accurate.