6th Grade
Visual Arts


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Drawing

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Claywork

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Responding

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Compositional awareness

  • Contour drawing

  • Line, shape, space awareness

  • Editing/revising

  • Observational drawing techniques

  • Pattern awareness

  • Positive/negative space awareness

  • Thumbnail sketches

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Additive and subtractive processes

  • Glazing process

  • Hand building techniques

  • Planning sketches

  • Scoring and slipping

  • Use of clay tools

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Apply art vocabulary in expressing thoughts/opinions

  • Considering the thoughts/ideas of others

  • Critical thinking

  • Developing, expressing and defending your opinion

  • Interpreting the meaning in artwork

  • Putting one's ideas into words

  • Self-assessment of one’s own work

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Color Theory Painting

Skills and Student Outcomes

  • Applying color schemes

  • Brush techniques

  • Brush cleaning/maintenance

  • Color identification

  • Color mixing

  • Choosing color schemes

  • Recognizing color schemes