FCPS Competency Assurance

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Arts and Humanities Competency Assurance Documents

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: KINDERGARTEN

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: KINDERGARTEN//ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students experience art with attention given to the elements of art. (line, shape, color, form, texture, space, value) or principles of design (e.g., balance, emphasis, pattern)

Performance Standard

Students demonstrate an awareness of the elements of art and principles of design

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings in the human experience through their productions, performance or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.1.31 Describe works of art using appropriate art terminology (subject matter, ideas, elements of art, principles of design)

AH-E-4.1.32 Art Elements – line, shape, form, texture, and color (primary and secondary hue) and color groups (warm, cool neutral) value, space

Demonstrators:

Use art media, tools, techniques and processes

Use drawing, painting, print making, modelings, and constructing to communicate ideas and feelings

Explore the elements and principles of visual art forms

Create original visual art

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.1.41 – Create artwork using the elements of art and principles of design

Suggested Activities:

Experience with primary and secondary colors

Drawing and identifying geometric shapes

Manipulating clay to experience form and texture

Critical Vocabulary:

Line, shape (2-D), texture, form (3-D), color, space, pattern, balance, contrast

(light/dark), value (lightness or darkness of a color or neutral), hue/color primary (red, yellow, blue),

secondary (green, orange, violet), warm colors, (red, orange, yellow), cool colors (blue, green, violet)

neutrals (black, white, gray, brown)

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: KINDERGARTEN// PROCESSES AND MEDIA

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students explore a variety of media (e.g., crayon, pencil, paint) and processes (e.g., drawing, painting, weaving) used for creating works of art

Performance Standard

Students experience a variety of media and processes used for creating works of art

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.1.35 Media – crayon, pencil, paint, fabric, yarn, clay, paper, (used to produce artworks)

AH-E-4.1.37 Art Processes – two-dimensional drawing, painting and collage

Demonstrators:

Use art media, tools, techniques and processes.

Use drawing, painting, print making, modelings, and constructing to communicate ideas and feelings

Explore the elements and principles of art forms.

Explore elements (space, line shape/form, value, texture, color) and principles (balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, repetition, movement, rhythm, pattern, proportion/distortion, transition/graduation, dominance

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.1.41 - Create artwork using the elements of art and principles of design

AH-E-4.1.42 – Use a variety of media and art processes to produce two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) artwork

Suggested Activities:

Experience with primary and secondary colors

Drawing and identifying geometric shapes

Manipulating clay to experience form and texture

Critical Vocabulary:

Line, shape (2-D), texture, form (3-D), color, space, pattern, balance, contrast

(light/dark), value (lightness or darkness of a color or neutral), hue/color primary (red, yellow, blue),

secondary (green, orange, violet), warm colors, (red, orange, yellow), cool colors (blue, green, violet)

neutrals (black, white, gray, brown)

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: KINDERGARTEN// HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students explore art from different cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard

Students experience art from different cultures, periods and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas with the visual arts

2.24 – Students appreciate creativity and the values of the arts and humanities

2.26 – Students recognize differences and commonalities in the human experience through their productions, performances or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.2.31 Identify various purposes for creating works of art

AH-E-4.2.32 Purposes of Art – expressive (express emotions and ideas), narrative (describe and illustrate experiences), functional (decorate objects)

AH –E-4.2.36 Styles – Realistic, abstract

AH-E-4.2.37 Subject Matters – landscape, portrait, and still life

Demonstrators:

Explore a variety of art forms in visual art

Experience a variety of art forms in visual art from diverse cultures

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.2.34 – Cultures: Native American, Early American (folk/Appalachian), West African (Ivory Coast)

Suggested Activities:

Viewing art from different cultures around the world

Introducing examples of landscape, portrait and still life

Critical Vocabulary: Culture, functional, non-functional

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