BENCHMARKS - ART
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KINDERGARTEN BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, and forms.
- Use pattern and variety.
- Use the five senses to gather information from the environment.
- Arrange art elements intuitively to create artworks.
- Identify simple subjects expressed in artworks.
- Create artworks using art elements, principles and basic art materials and tools.
- Cut, tear, and glue.
- Relate art to every day life.
- Express ideas about personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.
- Share ideas about artwork demonstrating respect for differing opinions.
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FIRST GRADE BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, and proportion.
- Use art elements to create designs.
- Identify the use of art in every day life.
- Invent images that combine a variety of art elements.
- Increase manipulative skills when creating drawings, paintings, prints, and constructions using a variety of basic art materials and tools.
- Identify simple ideas expressed in artworks through different media.
- Express ideas about personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.
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SECOND GRADE BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, texture, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, and rhythm.
- Identify art careers.
- Define reasons for preferences in personal artworks.
- Use the senses to identify variations in objects and subjects from the environment.
- Express ideas and feelings in artworks using art elements.
- Use art elements and principles to create personal artworks.
- Identify and practice skills necessary for producing drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, and modeled forms using basic art materials and tools.
- Identify ideas in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers, and famous artists.
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THIRD GRADE BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
- Identify and use rhythm.
- Relate art to different careers.
- Produce drawings, constructions, paintings, and prints using a variety of art materials appropriately.
- Compare artworks from different cultures.
- Compare and contrast different artworks from different cultures and periods in art history.
- Use design skills to develop a variety of compositions.
- Create artworks based on personal observations and experiences.
- Identify general intent and expressive qualities in personal artworks.
- Apply simple criteria to identify main ideas in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artists.
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FOURTH GRADE BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, texture, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
- Incorporate a variety of ideas about self, life events, family and community in original artworks.
- Identify the role of art in American society.
- Invent ways to produce artwork using a variety of art media and materials.
- Compare and contrast artworks from a variety of cultures.
- Design original artworks.
- Identify simple main ideas expressed in art.
- Describe intent and form conclusions about personal artworks.
- Interpret ideas and moods in personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers, and famous artists.
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FIFTH GRADE BENCHMARKS
- Identify and use lines, shapes, colors, space, forms, textures, value, pattern, variety, balance, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity.
- Compare relationships between design and every day life.
- Compare and contrast artworks from different periods in art history and a variety of cultures.
- Create original artworks using a variety of art materials and media.
- Analyze personal artworks, *portfolios, artworks of peers and famous artist to form conclusions about properties.
*Portfolio implementation will be included at the discretion of each individual art teacher due to student population, space/storage, and available materials.
