6-8
All students learn to develop artistic strategies of ideation, planning, reflection, refining, self-evaluation, collaboration, and communication through content-specific language. Common assessments at each grade level are designed to teach important skills and knowledge while providing individual responses to the problems presented. Students also learn about the role that professional artists play in their everyday world, including the work of master and contemporary artists and designers.
Grade 6-8: Through experimentation and practice, 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. Suggested units (introduction and development of skills and concepts) include: Drawing & Painting, Digital Media, Sculpture, Mixed Media, and Portraits. Common assessment: Perspective