Arts Standards for Grade

Visual Arts for Kindergarten

Process: Create

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr1.1.Ka	EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. EQ(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?	Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.	I can use my imagination to play with materials.
VA:Cr1.2.Ka	EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. EQ(s): How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?	Engage collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.	I can explore my imagination and materials with others.

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Process Component: Investigate

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr2.1.Ka	EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. EQ(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?	Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.	I can improve my art skills over time, by trying new materials and tools.
VA:Cr2.2.Ka	EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks. EQ(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?	Identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.	I can be safe when using materials and and tools. tools to create art. materials, others.
VA:Cr2.3.Ka	EU: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives. EQ(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.	I can make art by looking at the world around me.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Process Component: Reflect, Refine, Continue

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr3.1.Ka	EU: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?	Explain the process of making art while creating.	I can tell about how I make art.

Process: Perform

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Process Component: Select

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr4.1.Ka	EU: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation. EQ(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?	Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.	I can pick some of my own art to share. I can tell why I chose the art.

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Process Component: Analyze

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr5.1.Ka	EU: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it. EQ(s): What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer?	Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.	I can talk about why people collect things like art.

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Process Component: Share

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr6.1.Ka	EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding. EQ(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?	Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.	I can show and tell what an art museum is.

Process: Respond

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work

Process Component: Perceive

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re7.1.Ka	EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments. EQ(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?	Identify uses of art within one's personal environment.	I can tell how and why we use art.
VA:Re7.2.Ka	EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world. EQ(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?	Describe what an image represents.	I can tell what an image means.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Process Component: Analyze

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re8.1.Ka	EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism. EQ(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?	Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.	I can describe what the artwork is about.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Process Component: Interpret

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re9.1.Ka	EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria. EQ(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?	Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.	I can tell you my favorite artwork and why I picked it.

Process: Connect

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Process Component: Synthesize

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cn10.1.Ka	EU: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences. EQ(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?	Identify times, places, and reasons by which students make art outside of school.	I can give examples of times students make art outside of school.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Process Component: Relate

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cn11.1.Ka	EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art. EQ(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?	Identify a purpose of an artwork.	I can tell why art was made.

Process: Create

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Process Component: Investigate, Plan, Make

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr1.1.Ka	EU: Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed. EQ(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?	Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.	I can use my imagination to play with materials.
VA:Cr1.2.Ka	EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals. EQ(s): How does knowing the contexts histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?	Engage collaboratively in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.	I can explore my imagination and materials with others.

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Process Component: Investigate

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr2.1.Ka	EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. EQ(s): How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?	Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.	I can improve my art skills over time, by trying new materials and tools.
VA:Cr2.2.Ka	EU: Artists and designers balance experimentation and safety, freedom and responsibility while developing and creating artworks. EQ(s): How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment? Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct procedures in handling materials, tools, and equipment? What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?	Identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.	I can be safe when using materials and and tools. tools to create art. materials, others.
VA:Cr2.3.Ka	EU: People create and interact with objects, places, and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives. EQ(s): How do objects, places, and design shape lives and communities? How do artists and designers determine goals for designing or redesigning objects, places, or systems? How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments.	I can make art by looking at the world around me.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Process Component: Reflect, Refine, Continue

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cr3.1.Ka	EU: Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?	Explain the process of making art while creating.	I can tell about how I make art.

Process: Perform

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Process Component: Select

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr4.1.Ka	EU: Artists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation. EQ(s): How are artworks cared for and by whom? What criteria, methods, and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation? Why do people value objects, artifacts, and artworks, and select them for presentation?	Select art objects for personal portfolio and display, explaining why they were chosen.	I can pick some of my own art to share. I can tell why I chose the art.

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Process Component: Analyze

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr5.1.Ka	EU: Artists, curators and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it. EQ(s): What methods and processes are considered when preparing artwork for presentation or preservation? How does refining artwork affect its meaning to the viewer?	Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.	I can talk about why people collect things like art.

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Process Component: Share

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Pr6.1.Ka	EU: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding. EQ(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation and understanding?	Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.	I can show and tell what an art museum is.

Process: Respond

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work

Process Component: Perceive

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re7.1.Ka	EU: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments. EQ(s): How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art? How does learning about art impact how we perceive the world? What can we learn from our responses to art?	Identify uses of art within one's personal environment.	I can tell how and why we use art.
VA:Re7.2.Ka	EU: Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world. EQ(s): What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world?	Describe what an image represents.	I can tell what an image means.

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Process Component: Analyze

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re8.1.Ka	EU: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism. EQ(s): What is the value of engaging in the process of art criticism? How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? How does knowing and using visual art vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?	Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.	I can describe what the artwork is about.

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Process Component: Interpret

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Re9.1.Ka	EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria. EQ(s): How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation?	Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.	I can tell you my favorite artwork and why I picked it.

Process: Connect

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Process Component: Synthesize

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cn10.1.Ka	EU: Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences. EQ(s): How does engaging in creating art enrich people's lives? How does making art attune people to their surroundings? How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?	Identify times, places, and reasons by which students make art outside of school.	I can give examples of times students make art outside of school.

Anchor Standard 11: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Process Component: Relate

Code	Enduring Understanding and Essential Questions	Performance Standard	I CAN Statement
VA:Cn11.1.Ka	EU: People develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through their interactions with and analysis of art. EQ(s): How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? How is art used to impact the views of a society? How does art preserve aspects of life?	Identify a purpose of an artwork.	I can tell why art was made.