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Standard Identifier: 4.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: 4
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 investigation.
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Standard Identifier: 4.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: 4
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):
Brainstorm individual and collaborative approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Standard Identifier: 4.TH:Cr1

Grade: 4
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.b. Imagine how a character might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.c. Visualize and design technical theatre elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Standard Identifier: 4.MA:Cr1

Grade: 4
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

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.

Standard Identifier: 5.MA:Cr1

Grade: 5
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

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.

Standard Identifier: 5.TH:Cr1

Grade: 5
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify physical qualities that might reveal a character’s inner traits in the imagined world of a drama/theatre work.b. Imagine how a character’s inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama/ theatre work.c. Propose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: 5
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):
Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.

Standard Identifier: 5.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: 5
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):
Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.

Standard Identifier: 6.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: 6
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):
Formulate an artistic investigation of personally relevant content for creating art.

Standard Identifier: 6.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: 6
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):
Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.

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