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Standard Identifier: K.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: K
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(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?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Engage in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Re9

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Pr6

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. With guidance, perform music with expression. b. With guidance, demonstrate performance decorum appropriate for the audience.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Cr1

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour). b. With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).

Standard Identifier: 1.MU:Cr1

Grade: 1
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. With limited guidance, create musical ideas (such as answering a musical question) for a specific purpose. b. With limited guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters (such as duple and triple).

Standard Identifier: 1.MU:Pr6

Grade: 1
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. With limited guidance, perform music for a specific purpose with expression. b. With limited guidance, demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the purpose.

Standard Identifier: 1.MU:Re9

Grade: 1
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes.

Standard Identifier: 1.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: 1
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(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?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.

Standard Identifier: 1.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: 1
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(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
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Standard Identifier: 1.VA:Pr6

Grade: 1
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: 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.
Essential Question(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 that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.

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