OMS 6 & 8

Middle School Students and the Grade 8 Benchmark

By adolescence, students have developed powerful new thoughts and feelings that challenge established world-views. As experiences become increasingly conflicting and diverse, so art making becomes a safe arena for experimenting in the construction of new relationships between inner and outer realities. Painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, sculpture and art appreciation become important vehicles for testing ideas, making judgments, forming values and exercising curiosity. In particular, exploring through different mediums students will develop an understanding of the elements of art and principles of design. Together with the exploration of new and different ideas about the representation of three-dimensional space helps students express new points of view about themselves and their world.

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