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Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice

Performance Standard(s):
a. Enact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration, in media arts productions. b. Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Explore multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice

Performance Standard(s):
a. Exhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, and organizational roles, such as making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and group planning, in media arts productions. b. Exhibit basic creative skills, such as standard use of tools, to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks. b. Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks. b. Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice

Performance Standard(s):
a. Enact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, and collaboration, in media arts productions. b. Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking and novel use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Conceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of generative methods such as brainstorming and modeling.

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and the work of others.

Enduring Understanding: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
Essential Question(s): What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?
Process Component(s): Practice

Performance Standard(s):
a. Enact various roles to practice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique and collaboration, in media arts productions. b. Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions and experimental use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.