The Bosque Education Guide: Education Standards

Visual Arts : 1998 Content Standard and Benchmarks

Standard 1: Learn and develop the essential skills and technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts.	Activity Number*
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
• identify the elements of design (line, color, shape, texture, pattern, space, value) as found in the environment and in art.	2, 3, 12
• demonstrate and explain steps used to crate art (idea gathering, sketches, diagrams, and additions to diagrams).	2, 3, 12
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
engage in problem-solving activities that apply the principles of art to the elements of art.	2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 32
research and discuss the relationship between art and artifact and their historical, geographical, cultural, and political contexts.	4, 12, 39
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
• demonstrate an increasing level of competence in using the elements and principles of art to create art works for public exhibition.	4, 12, 13, 24, 27
• use objects, symbols, and ideas in their artwork and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life.	4, 12, 13, 32
Standard 2: Use dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts to express ideas.
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
• participate in a variety of reflective processes (individual tasks, group discussions, journaling, portfolio and display).	2, 3, 12, 16, 19
• complete, discuss and display one’s own original works of art.	2, 3, 12, 19
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will identify and describe the emotional connotations of the use and placement of design principles and elements in one’s own work and the work of others.	2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 27, 32
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will review and assess the use of design principles and elements in art.	12, 24, 27
Standard 3: Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas.
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will identify and apply connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the local curriculum.	2, 3, 12, 16, 19
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will identify and explain the similarities and differences of concepts common to the visual arts and to other content areas.	3, 4, 12, 19, 32
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will include in portfolio form examples that demonstrate an understanding of art based on cross-discipline learning.	4, 12, 19, 24, 27, 32
Standard 4: Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
• understand that works of art come from diverse personal and cultural experiences and inspirations.	2, 3
• develop appropriate methods of reflection and evaluation of art work.	2 ,3
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will create art in which design elements and principles in conjunction with subject, themes, and content are based on personal experiences to create meanings.	2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 27
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will use oral and written methods to express the introspective process used in creating personal artwork	4
Standard 5: Observe, discuss, analyze, and make critical judgments about artistic works.	Activity Number*
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will:
• describe their own art and the work of others.	2, 3, 12
• respond to constructive comments from others about one’s own art.	2, 3, 12, 19
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will demonstrate the use of the elements of art to express moods and feelings in one’s own art and the art of others.	2, 3, 4, 12
Standard 6: Show increased awareness of diverse people and cultures through visual and performing arts.
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will create art that reflects NM cultural and historical influences.	2, 3, 12
Standard 7: Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced arts and offered new possibilities for expression.
5-8 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will incorporate the use of at least one means of technology in creating an original work of art.	24, 27
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will develop commencement portfolios and skills of analysis that show proficiency in one or more mediums including skill in using computers and other electronic media.	24, 27
Standard 8: Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.
K-4 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will participate in school or community sponsored opportunities for art display.	2, 3, 12, 19
9-12 Benchmarks: Visual arts: students will develop commencement portfolios and skills of analysis that show proficiency in one or more mediums including skill in using computers and other electronic media.	24, 27