Elementary Visual Art

K-5 Visual Arts at a Glance

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

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●​ Drawings & portraits using crayon, oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using tempera or watercolor ●​ Simple collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using paper or repurposed items

●​ Drawings & portraits using crayon, oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using tempera or watercolor ●​ Simple collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using paper or repurposed items printmaking, or rubbings ●​ Simple masks & puppets ●​ Simple textile arts ●​ Simple clay sculpture ●​ Simple stamping, Needs of living things, weather, space, story, character, setting, government, friendship, kindness, community, decision-making, shape attributes, problem/solution, add & subtract to 20, 2D/3D shapes, modeling. 1: Engage collaboratively in exploration & imaginative play with art materials. 2: Explore materials and tools to create art. Safely use & care for materials, tools, equipment, & spaces.

●​ Drawings & portraits using crayon, oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using tempera or watercolor ●​ Collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using paper or repurposed items ●​ Stamping, printmaking, or rubbings ●​ Creating masks & puppets ●​ Simple clay sculpture ●​ Simple textile arts ●​ Guided digital media Life cycle, habitats, states of matter, character conflict, expressive word meanings, personal or family stories, citizenship, being a good friend, telling time, add/subtract to 100, simple story problems, measuring with tools. 3: Explore materials and tools to create art. Safely use & care for materials, tools, equipment, & spaces. 4: Repurpose objects to make something new. 1: Categorize artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit. 3: Determine how exhibiting art contributes to communities. 1: See & describe both natural & constructed environments. 2: Identify the mood, medium, & subject of a work of art.

●​ Drawings & portraits using crayon, oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using tempera, watercolor, or acrylic ●​ Collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using various materials ●​ Stamping, printmaking, or rubbings ●​ Creating masks & puppets ●​ Simple clay sculpture ●​ Simple textile arts ●​ Guided digital media

●​ Drawings & portraits using oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using watercolor or acrylic ●​ Collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using various materials ●​ Stamping or printmaking ●​ Creating masks & puppets ●​ Clay sculpture ●​ Textile arts ●​ Digital media & printing

●​ Drawings & portraits using oil pastel, pencil, or marker ●​ Paintings using watercolor or acrylic ●​ Collage, mosaic, weaving, or sculpture using various materials ●​ Stamping or printmaking ●​ Creating masks & puppets ●​ Clay sculpture ●​ Textile arts ●​ Digital media & printing Earth systems, matter changes & cycles, U.S. history & geography, figurative language, plot structure, personal values & beliefs, attributes of 2D figures, standard measurement, graphing on a coordinate plane. 2: Develop skills in multiple art-making techniques. 3: Create artistic statements that describe choices.

Age-Aligned Artistic Media & Activities Examples

●​ Simple stamping,

printmaking, or rubbings ●​ Simple masks & puppets

Seasons, force and motion, living things, story, character, setting, emotions, rules, responsibilities, school & local community, numbers to 100, basic add/subtract with objects, shapes.

Animal survival traits, climate patterns, forces affecting motion, story details, figurative

Organisms, energy transfer, wave patterns, Utah history & geography, figurative language, plot structure, goal setting,

Grade-Level Integration Connections

language, constitution, government, arithmetic

positive communication, points/lines/rays/angles, perpendicular/parallel, symmetry.

patterns, multiplication to 12, scaled picture & bar graphs, find perimeter.

1: Engage in exploration & imaginative play with art materials. 2: Safely use & care for materials, tools, equipment, & spaces.

1: Use personal ideas & imagination to make art. 3: Safely use & care for materials, tools, equipment, & spaces.

1: Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative problem. 2: Collaboratively create artwork. 4: Revise artwork based on peer discussion.

Create

1: Select art for display, giving an explanation for choices.

2: Discuss where, when, why, & how artwork is presented or preserved.

3: Discuss how & where different cultures record & illustrate stories & history of life through art.

3: Consider the purposes of art museums, art galleries, & other venues, as well as the experiences they provide.

1: Define the role of a curator. Explain the skills of preserving, maintaining, & presenting art.

Present

3: Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.

1: Select & describe works of art about daily life experiences.

2: Analyze the use of media to create subject, form, & mood. 3: Evaluate an artwork based on criteria.

2: Analyze elements of visual imagery that convey messages. 4: Apply one set of criteria to evaluate multiple works of art.

1: Compare interpretations of artwork. 2: Identify & analyze cultural associations of visual imagery. 1: View surroundings in new ways through art-making. 2: Identify how art informs or changes beliefs, values, or behaviors.

Respond

1: Create art that tells a life experience story. 2: Recognize that many cultures make art.

1: Identify & discuss why we make art in daily life. 2: Discuss reasons why people have made art across times, places, & cultures.

1: Create art about home, school, or community life. 2: Compare & contrast art from different times, places, & cultures.

1: Create art based on observations.

1: Create art that reflects community cultural tradition. 2: Infer information about time, place, & culture by observing art.

2: Discuss how responses to art change based on the time & place in which it was made.

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