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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:Re8

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

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:Re8

Grade: 1
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
With limited guidance, demonstrate and identify expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.

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:Re8

Grade: 1
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Enduring Understanding: People gain insights into meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Essential Question(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 arts vocabularies help us understand and interpret works of art?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the mood and characteristics of form.

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