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Clay Arts in the Exhibit: National Standards Addressed

5th – 8th grade

Content Standard #1:
Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Achievement Standard:

• Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

• Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas

Introductory Section Contents:
Overview of the Exhibit
Regional/State Maps of Exhibiting Artists
Pre- and Post-Visit activities
Themed Galleries/Lesson Plans
PowerPoints by discussion topic
Create your own gallery activity

Supplementary Materials
Resources

Resources for teaching - Clay

Clay in the Exhibit Overview
Curators’ Statements
National Standards Addressed
     5th - 8th Grade
     9th - 12th Grade

Guiding Question for Unit
Statement for Students
Vocabulary
Media-Based Activities
Using the PowerPoint™ Presentation

Main Teaching Materials Page
All National Arts Standards

Content Standard # 2
Using knowledge of structures and functions 5-8th grade

Achievement Standard

• Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work

• Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas

• Students select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas

Content Standard # 3
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas

Achievement Standard:

• Students integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks.

• Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks

Content Standard # 5
Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others

Achievement Standard:

• Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art

Content Standard # 6b
Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

Achievement Standard:

• Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts.

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9th – 12th grade

Content Standard # 1
Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

Achievement Standard:

Proficient:

• Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks

• Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use

Advanced:
• Students communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium

• Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

Content Standard # 2
Using knowledge of structures and functions

Achievement Standard:

Proficient:
• Students demonstrate the ability to form and defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art

• Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions

• Students create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems

Advanced:
• Students demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives

• Students create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions

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