elementary Block:

Visual Arts

Learners place value on their skill as artists and reflect on the work they create. They develop the ability to collaborate and can respectfully share ideas and impressions of artwork created by others. Learners are realizing that their art is an expression of their experience, ideas, and identity. Learners create more detailed work and apply learned skills, techniques, and vocabulary to their own work. They build understanding and experience with the elements and principles of art. Learners explore the creative process which involves planning, testing, refining, problem-solving, and accepting that results are open to interpretation by others.

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

EXPERIMENTATION

CREATE

  • Develop skill in creating art
  • Experiment with a variety of genres and technologies
  • Develop skills to support making art in a specific medium

CONNECT

  • Connect the ways visual art is important to communication, history and understanding each other

COMMUNICATE

  • Determine artistic intent
  • Justify choices in making art
GRADE 3

Strand: CREATE

Big Idea: EXPLORATION AND PROCESS

Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Use directionality of line for a variety of purposes
  • Create with geometric and organic shapes
  • Create the illusion of depth by adjusting the size of shapes
  • Identify and describe foreground, middle ground, and background
  • Create and describe real versus illusory texture
  • Explore techniques to represent and create texture
  • Explore relationships of colour on a colour wheel
  • Identify complementary colours
  • Explore contrast using value or colour
  • Mix and experiment with tints and shades
  • Describe and construct 3D works using a variety of tools, materials, and techniques
  • Use materials and tools safely

Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PRODUCT

Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work in visual arts for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media, including technology.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create representations of a variety of subjects with a focus on careful observation
  • Create art for a variety of reasons, including responses to music and literature
  • Differentiate elements of art and principles of design in artwork
  • Choose, describe, and display work from their portfolio

Strand: CONNECT

Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss ways visual art is a universal means of expression
  • Describe ways artists use a variety of approaches/media when making art
  • Discuss the reasons people create art
  • Discuss art and artists within the local community

Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between visual art and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss commonalities between the visual arts and other arts using the language of art

Strand: COMMUNICATE

Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND

Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss artwork using elements of art and principles of design
  • List reasons why artwork is created
  • Explain reasons for personal decisions during the art-making process
  • Discuss personal intentions in creating art objects
GRADE 4

Strand: CREATE

Big Idea: EXPLORATION AND PROCESS

Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Use lines to show pattern and rhythm
  • Explore expressive quality of line
  • Explore qualities such as stability and balance
  • Create with symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes
  • Describe positive and negative space
  • Create the illusion of depth
  • Experiment with patterns of line to show texture
  • Describe intentions regarding colour choices
  • Experiment with monochromatic colour schemes
  • Mix and experiment with tints and shades
  • Use variation in value
  • Create 3D works
  • Use materials and tools safely

Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PRODUCT

Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work in visual arts for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media, including technology.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create representations of a variety of subjects with a focus on careful observation
  • Create art for a variety of reasons, including responses to music and literature
  • Differentiate elements of art and principles of design in artwork
  • Choose, describe, and display work from their portfolio

Strand: CONNECT

Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • List examples of how visual art is a universal means of expression
  • Compare how artists create art using a variety of media/technologies
  • Discuss the effects of the media on their lives
  • Discuss the ways of perceiving and interpreting art
  • Describe the role of art and artists in their communities

Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between visual art and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe commonalities between the visual arts and other arts using the language of art

Strand: COMMUNICATE

Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND

Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss artwork using elements of art and principles of design
  • Discuss reasons why artwork is created
  • Explain reasons for personal decisions during the art-making process
  • Discuss the intentions of artists in creating art objects
GRADE 5

Strand: CREATE

Big Idea: EXPLORATION AND PROCESS

Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Use linear perspective
  • Use hatching and cross-hatching for texture, value, and form
  • Explore radial symmetry and asymmetry
  • Experiment with techniques to create the illusion of depth
  • Represent and create texture using a variety of tools, techniques, materials, and patterns
  • Describe relationships of colour on a colour wheel
  • Explore expressive use of colour
  • Experiment with gradations of value
  • Explore symmetry and asymmetry with 3D constructs/works
  • Use materials and tools safely

Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PRODUCT

Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work in visual arts for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media, including technology.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create representations of a variety of subjects with a focus on careful observation
  • Create art for a variety of reasons, including responses to music and literature
  • Differentiate between elements of art and principles of design in artwork
  • Choose, describe, and display work from their portfolio

Strand: CONNECT

Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Give examples of how visual art is a universal means of expression
  • Compare how art has changed over time
  • Discuss the effects of the media on making art
  • Compare the styles of a variety of artists
  • Give examples of the role of art and artists in their community

Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS

Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between visual art and other art forms.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Compare visual arts and other art forms using the language of art

Strand: COMMUNICATE

Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND

Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe artwork using elements of art and principles of design
  • Describe reasons why artwork is created
  • Explain reasons for personal decisions during the art-making process
  • Discuss the intentions of artists in creating art objects