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Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: TK
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):
Engage in self-directed, creative artmaking.

Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Cr3

Grade: TK
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Share and talk about personal artwork.

Standard Identifier: K.VA:Cr3

Grade: K
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Explain the process of making art while creating.

Standard Identifier: K.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: K
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):
Engage collaboratively in creative artmaking in response to an artistic problem.

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.TH:Cr3

Grade: K
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal.
Essential Question(s): How do theatre artists transform and edit their initial ideas?
Process Component(s): Rehearse

Performance Standard(s):
a. With prompting and supports, ask and answer questions during dramatic play or a guided drama experience

Standard Identifier: K.TH:Cr1

Grade: K
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. With prompting and supports, invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.b. n/ac. With prompting and supports, use non-representational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Cr3.2

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: 3.2 Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Essential Question(s): When is creative work ready to share?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas to peers.

Standard Identifier: K.MU:Cr3.1

Grade: K
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: 3.1 Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Process Component(s): Evaluate and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining personal musical ideas.

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).

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