Create artworks, using a variety of colors, forms, and lines.

Identify simple subjects expressed in artworks.

Invent images that combine a variety of colors, forms, and lines.

Increase manipulative skills, using a variety of materials to produce drawings, painting, prints, and constructions.

Identify art elements such as color, texture, form, line, and space and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, and rhythm.

Identify and practice skills necessary for producing drawings, paintings, prints, constructions, and modeled forms, using a variety of art materials.

Identify art elements such as color, texture, form, line, space, and value and art principles such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity in artworks.

Compare content in artworks from the past and present for various purposes such as telling stories and documenting history and traditions.

Choose appropriate vocabulary to discuss the use of art elements such as color, texture, form, line, space, and value and art principles such as emphasis, patter, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity.

Identify simple main ideas expressed in art.

Describe intent and form conclusions about personal artworks.

Compare cultural themes honoring history and traditions in American and other artworks.

Analyze and form generalizations about the interdependence of the art elements such as color, texture, form, line, space, and value and principles such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity, using art vocabulary appropriately.

Identify in artworks the influence of historical and political events.

Produce drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, fiber art, photographic imagery, and electronic media-generated art, using a variety of art materials and tools in traditional and experimental ways.

Analyze selected artworks to determine cultural contexts.

Identify cultural ideas expressed in artworks relating to social, political, and environmental themes.

Demonstrate effective use of art media and tools in design, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.

Describe general characteristics in artworks from a variety of cultures.

Interpret visual parallels between the structures of natural and human-made environments.

Select from a variety of art media and tools to communicate specific ideas in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber art, jewelry, photography/filmmaking, and electronic media-generated art.

Analyze specific characteristics of artworks in various cultures.

Trace influences of various cultures on contemporary artworks.

Analyze original artworks, portfolios, and exhibitions to form conclusions about formal qualities, historical and cultural contexts, intents, and meanings and to show innovation and provide examples of in-depth exploration of one or more themes.

Evaluate and justify design ideas and concepts for use in personal artworks.

Analyze a wide range of artworks to form conclusions about formal qualities, historical and cultural contexts, intents, and meanings.