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Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Cr1

Grade: TK
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, transition between imagination and reality 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: PK.TH:Cr3

Grade: TK
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, answer questions during dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

Standard Identifier: PK.TH:Pr6

Grade: TK
Discipline: Theatre
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience in diverse cultures.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists and audiences share a creative experience?
Process Component(s): Share, Present

Performance Standard(s):
With prompting and supports, engage in dramatic play or a guided drama experience and share with others.

Standard Identifier: PK.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: TK
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 self-directed or collaborative exploration with a variety of arts materials.

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: PK.VA:Pr6

Grade: TK
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 where art is displayed both inside and outside of school.

Standard Identifier: K.VA:Pr6

Grade: K
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):
Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

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.

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