First+Grade

First Grade Curriculum
Standard(s) Aligned System

Clear Standards

**9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition of Visual Arts  ** **A.**Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities. **H.** Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces. **I.** Identify arts events that take place in schools and in communities. **K.** Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities. **9.2. Historical and Cultural Contexts ** **B.** Relate works in the arts chronologically to historical events (e.g., 10,000 B.C. to present). **F.** Know and apply appropriate vocabulary used between social studies and the arts and humanities. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**9.3. Critical Response** **A.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Recognize critical processes used in the examination of works in the arts and humanities. **B.** Know that works in the arts can be described by using the arts elements, principles and concepts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**C.** Know classification skills with materials and processes used to create works in the arts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**9.4. Aesthetic Response** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">**A.** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Know how to respond to a philosophical statement about works in the arts and humanities <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**B.** Know how to communicate an informed individual opinion about the meaning of works in the arts
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 * B.** Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
 * C.** Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms.
 * D.** Use knowledge of varied styles within each art form through a performance or exhibition of unique work.
 * E.** Demonstrate the ability to define objects, express emotions, illustrate an action or relate an experience through creation of works in the arts.
 * F.** Identify works of others through a performance or exhibition
 * G.** Recognize the function of rehearsals and practice sessions.
 * J.** Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others.
 * G.** Relate works in the arts to geographic regions
 * D.** Explain meanings in the arts and humanities through individual works and the works of others using a fundamental vocabulary of critical response.
 * F.** Know how to recognize and identify similar and different characteristics among works in the arts

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* Anchors ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Fair Assessments**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. The skills, techiques, elements, and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined, and practiced. 2. Artists use tools and resources, as well as their own experiences and skills, to create art. 3. People create, experience, and engage with art throughout their lives. 4. The arts provide a medium to understand and exchange ideas. 5. art is created for a variety of purposes; artists create fro a vareity of reasons. 6. Humans have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures. 7. There are formal and informal processes used to assess the quality of works in the arts.8. People use both aesthetic and critical processes to assess quality, interpret meaning, and determine value. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Artists make art to solve problems. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Artists use specific vocabulary when making or describing art. 3. Artists visually record customs and traditions as a way of preserving and understand cultures and time periods. Artists create works of art that celebrate special occasions/holidays or commemorate a special event. Artists create works of art that show how people dressed, lived, worked, and played. Artists create everyday objects as works of art.Artists reflect on art and art making when they make choices, state preferences, and learn from past experience. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Students will make art for a variety of purposes and reasons. 2. Students will recognize that the opinions of others are valid. 3. Students will use appropriate vocabulary when making art and expressing their ideas about art. 4. Students will make abd analyze art that reflects a variety of cultures, traditions, and time periods.5. Students will reflect on the processes they use to produce their art as well as the products they create. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. What is art? 2. Where do we experience art? 3. Who can create art? 4. How is art like a language? 5. Why do people create art? 6. Why do people use art? 7. Why does art change? 8. What makes art good? 9. Why do artists rehearse and practice? 10. Why is it important for people to be able to draw and paint? 11. Why do different people like different works of art?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__Summative__ **
 * __<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Diagnostic ** __ ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Curriculum Framework **
 * __<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Big Ideas** __
 * __<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Concepts ** __
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">There are many solutions to one problem.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Multiple solutions to the same problem may all be correct.
 * __<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Competencies ** __
 * __<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Essential Questions ** __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">__**Vocabulary**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Balance** - when equal elements are placed on opposite sides on axis in a work of art (symmetry) <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * Additional vocabulary is used relating to emergent curriculum.**
 * Cool colors** - blues, greens and violets; colors that remind us of cool things, such as water and grass
 * Elements of art** - the basic building blocks of art: line, color, shape, space, texture, value and form
 * Illustrator** - a person who expresses a story or an idea with a picture
 * Museum** - a place where art is collected, stored and exhibited
 * Observation** - to look or watch. Artists observe closely to create art.
 * Pattern** - when elements of a repeated design are organized and repeated evenly
 * Primary colors** - yellow, blue and red. No two colors can be mixed to make these colors, and these colors can be mixed to make every color of the rainbow.
 * Warm colors** - yellows, oranges and reds; colors that remind us of warm things like the sun and fire
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 * Concept:** Artists make art to solve problems.
 * There are many solutions to one problem.
 * Multiple solutions to the same problem may all be correct.
 * Competency:** Students will make art for a variety of purposes and reasons.
 * Exemplar:** Students will view works of art that were made to solve problems.
 * //Assessment// -** Students will identify a problem and make art to solve the problem. The teacher will look for creative solutions to problems and provide feedback through conferences with students. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> ||