Elementary Visual Art

UTAH CORE STATE STANDARDS for the FINE ARTS

Standard K.V.R.3:

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred art work.

Strand: CONNECT (K.V.CO.)

Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context (Standards K.V.CO.1-2).

Standard K.V.CO.1:

Explore the world using descriptive and expressive words, and create art that tells a story about a life experience.

Standard K.V.CO.2:

Recognize that people of many cultures make art, and identify a cultural purpose of an artwork.

VISUAL ART – GRADE 1

Strand: CREATE (1.V.CR.)

Students will generate artistic work by conceptualizing, organizing, and completing their artistic ideas. They will refine original work through persistence, reflection, and evaluation (Standards 1.V.CR.1-3).

Standard 1.V.CR.1:

Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with art materials, and use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art. Explore the use of materials and tools to create works of art or design; use art materials, tools, and equipment in a safe way; and identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.

Standard 1.V.CR.2:

Standard 1.V.CR.3:

Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

Strand: PRESENT (1.V.P.)

Students will analyze, interpret, refine, and select artistic work for presentation. They will convey meaning in the manner in which the art is presented (Standards 1.V.P.1-3).

Standard 1.V.P.1:

Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are valued over others.

Standard 1.V.P.2:

Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why, and how artwork should be prepared for presentation or preservation.