In this Lesson plan students will cover important Enduring Understandings, Colorado Academic Visual Art Standards, and address the Prepared Graduate Competencies.
Enduring Understandings Artists and designers use information provided to influence their designs and create artwork. Art can impact people’s daily lives. Artists use elements of design to create balanced compositions in their artwork.
Art Standards 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend. 2.Envision and Critique to Reflect. 3. Invent and Discover to Create. 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
Prepared Graduate Competencies Comprehend - Explain, demonstrate, and interpret a range of purposes of art and design, recognizing that the making and study of art and design can be approached from a variety of viewpoints, intelligences, and perspectives Reflect - Critique personal work and the work of others with informed criteria Reflect - Use specific criteria to discuss and evaluate works of art Create - Develop and build appropriate mastery in art-making skills using traditional and new technologies and an understanding of the characteristics and expressive features of art and design Create - Recognize, interpret, and validate that the creative process builds on the development of ideas through a process of inquiry, discovery, and research Transfer - Transfer the value of visual arts to lifelong learning and the human experience Transfer - Explain, compare and justify that the visual arts are connected to other disciplines, the other art forms, social activities, mass media, and careers in art and non-art related arenas
Grade Level Expectations Comprehend - Historical and cultural context are found in visual art Reflect - Reflective strategies are used to understand the creative process Create - Assess and produce art with various materials and methods Create - Demonstrate competency in traditional and new art media, and apply appropriate and available technology for the expression of ideas Transfer - Communication through advanced visual methods is a necessary skill in everyday life