Creating

• Students will sketch and brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.
• Individually and collaboratively they will set goals and create artwork that is meaningful to the maker.
• Students will create works based on their own interests,experiences, and community.
• In addition to learning established art techniques students are encouraged to invent their own ways of working with materials.
• Students will learn to care for and maintain their own tools, materials, and space, as well as help each other.
• Through in process critiques students can offer words of encouragement to their peers.

Presenting

• Students will organize works for display for our classroom “gallery walks”
• Students will also discuss and compare how art is displayed in museums, galleries, and public art installations.
• Students will discuss how new media plays a role in how art is displayed and accessed.

Responding/ Connecting

• Students will be able to break down works of art and discuss how artists use the elements and principles of design to achieve certain effects.
• Students will describe how artists can convey messages and ideas through their work.
• Students will create works of art that tell their own story through visual imagery.