competencies/Standards: 3rd grade

CREATING

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

• VA:Cr1.1.3a—Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

• VA:Cr1.2.3a—Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

• VA:Cr2.1.3a—Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

• VA:Cr2.2.3a—Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

• VA:Cr2.3.3a—Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

• VA:Cr3.1.3a—Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.

PRESENTING/PRODUCING

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret work for presentation.

• VA:Pr4.1.3a—Investigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

• VA:Pr5.1.3a—Identify exhibit space and prepare works of art including artists’ statements, for presentation.

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

• VA:Pr6.1.3a—Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

RESPONDING

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze work.

• VA:Re.7.1.3a—Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

• VA:Re.7.2.3a—Determine messages communicated by an image.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

• VA:Re8.1.3a—Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form, and mood.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

• VA:Re9.1.3a—Evaluate an artwork based on given criteria.

CONNECTING

• Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

• VA:Cn10.1.3a—Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

• VA:Cn11.1.3a—Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.