Art+Level+K-1+Essential+Learnings

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== EL 1 Students will recognize and apply the visual arts as a tool for communication. ==
 * 1) Illustrate a personal event
 * 2) Explain how art makes them feelrecognize contrast as light and dark

== **EL 2** Students will know and apply the elements and principles of art and design with sensory and expressive features of the visual arts ==
 * 1) Utilize different types of lines in a 2D composition
 * 2) Generate geometric and free-form shapes
 * 3) Recognize texture as tactile and pattern as visual
 * 4) Produce artwork using the concept of overlapping and recognize size relationships
 * 5) Identify primary and secondary colors
 * 6) Interpret a sensory experience
 * 7) Distinguish between warm and cool colors
 * 8) Recognize value as black, white and shades of gray
 * 9) Classify designs as symmetrical or radial
 * 10) Demonstrate repetition in a 2D or 3D work
 * 11) Recognize contrast as light and dark

== **EL 3** Students will know and apply the visual art material, tools, techniques and processes. ==
 * 1) Manipulate lines and shapes in a variety of 2D media
 * 2) Construct a 3D form
 * 3) Apply texture in clay
 * 4) Create a relief print
 * 5) Demonstrate appropriate use of tools and materials (rulers, scissors, brushes, glue, perm. markers)
 * 6) Follow safety procedures
 * 7) Wear protective clothing

== **EL 4 Students will relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.** == == **EL 5** Students will analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art ==
 * 1) Discuss and compare familiar objects from today and long ago
 * 2) Create an illustration based on a folktale
 * 1) Identify the subject matter in a work of art
 * 2) Compare and contrast artwork - student and/or historical
 * 3) Choose a favorite piece of art and explain why they like it