primary Block:
Visual Arts
Imaginative and curious learners use images to tell stories, share ideas, and make images inspired by experiences and the world around them. They begin to share their ideas about imagery and develop collaborative group work skills. These learners commonly use symbols for people and objects, emphasize important features, show multiple perspectives at once, create X-ray drawings, attempt representation of recognizable forms, and develop observation skills by pointing things out. Intentional and open-ended invitations are used to help learners make discoveries about the elements and principles of art.
For Educators:
CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS
EXPLORATION
CREATE
- Explore the process of creating art
- 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
- Discuss artistic intent
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Exploration and Process
Skill Descriptor: Explore the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.
Achievement Indicators:
- Name different kinds of lines in art and the environment
- Identify geometric and organic shapes in art and the environment
- Describe horizontal lines
- Describe the texture of familiar objects
- List the primary colours
- Describe colour choices
- Describe lights and darks in artworks
- Manipulate materials to create sculptures
- Use materials and tools safely
Big Idea: Application and Product
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media including technology.
Achievement Indicators:
- Create representations of subjects by practising careful observation
- Create art related to imagination, fantasy, and/or mood
- Identify elements of art and principles of design in artwork
- Choose and present work from their portfolio
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Explore the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Identify examples of visual communication in daily life
- Discuss the effects of visual communication
- Discuss artworks from a variety of contexts
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Reflect and Respond
Skill Descriptor: Explore and discuss artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss their own and others’ artwork
- List reasons why artists are motivated to create
- Describe the emotion(s) an artist means to convey for specific artwork
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Exploration and Process
Skill Descriptor: Explore the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.
Achievement Indicators:
- Describe different kinds of line in art and the environment
- Name and create geometric and organic shapes in art and the environment
- Experiment with “off-the-page,” where an image extends beyond the page
- Experiment with transfer of texture
- Experiment with mixing colours
- Describe lights and darks in artworks
- Extend sculptural exploration
- Use materials and tools safely
Big Idea: Application and Product
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media including technology.
Achievement Indicators:
- Create representations of subjects by practising careful observation
- Create art on imagination, fantasy, and/or mood
- Identify elements of art and principles of design in artwork
- Choose and present work from their portfolio
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Explore the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Describe examples of visual communication encountered in daily life
- Describe ways visual communications have impact
- List reasons why art exists
- Discuss artworks from a variety of contexts
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Reflect and Respond
Skill Descriptor: Explore and discuss artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss artwork using the language of visual art
- Discuss reasons why artists are motivated to create
- Categorize examples of images based on subject matter
- Identify problem-solving that occurred during art-making
Strand: Create
Big Idea: Exploration and Process
Skill Descriptor: Explore the elements of art and the principles of design to develop skills, language, techniques, and processes.
Achievement Indicators:
- Use different kinds of lines with intentionality
- Combine basic shapes to create images
- Experiment with overlap of objects
- Experiment with creating texture
- Mix primary colours to create secondary colours
- Identify and use warm and cool colours for effect
- Mix tints to lighten and shades to darken
- Create sculptural works
- Use materials and tools safely
Big Idea: Application and Product
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive work for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media including technology.
Achievement Indicators:
- Create representations of subjects by practising careful observation
- Create art on imagination, fantasy, and/or mood
- Identify elements of art and principles of design in artwork
- Choose and present work from their portfolio
Strand: Connect
Big Idea: Art and Culture
Skill Descriptor: Explore the role of visual art in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss the purpose of visual communication in daily life
- Describe reasons why art exists
- Discuss artworks from a variety of contexts
Strand: Communicate
Big Idea: Reflect and Respond
Skill Descriptor: Explore and discuss artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Describe artwork using the language of visual art
- Describe reasons why artists are motivated to create
- Categorize examples of artwork based on subject matter
- Explain problem-solving that occurred during art-making