Creating

• Students will individually and collaboratively generate original ideas in their sketchbook

• In addition to learning established art techniques students are encouraged to invent their own ways of working with materials.

• Students will work to refine skills and art making techniques through practice and attention to craftsmanship

• Students will continue to care for and maintain their own tools, materials, and space, as well as help each other.

• Students will create works based on their own interests,experiences, and community.

• Students will accompany work with written or verbal descriptions.

Presenting

• Students will collaborate and organize works for display on our art bulletin boards.

• 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 describe how artists can convey messages and ideas through their work.

• Students will discuss how cultures beliefs, values, and customs, inform a visual artists’ work.

• 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 create works of art that tell their own story through visual imagery.