Curriculum Objectives

Knowledge Objectives

• Students will understand how art reflects, records, and shapes history and plays a role in every culture.

• Students will develop a basic vocabulary for thinking and writing about and discussing visual art elements and principles of design.

• Students will know how library and Internet resources on the visual arts are organized and accessed.

Skills Objectives

• Students will be able to work with art media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and computer-based tools to express ideas, feelings and values.

• Students will be able to make and justify judgments about aesthetic qualities in works of art and other objects within the total environment.

• Students will develop open-ended problem solving skills.

• Students will develop their expository writing abilities.

Attitude Objectives

• Students will enjoy exploring their creative abilities in the visual arts.

• Students will develop confidence in their abilities to express ideas imaginatively in the visual arts.

• Students will value their artistic skills and heritage and those of others.

Process Objectives

• Students will view, discuss, and write about works of art from a variety of historical eras and world cultures.

• Students will create artworks in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and computer-based tools.

• Students will creatively express themselves in a work of visual art that is personally meaningful to them.

Experience Objectives

• Students will encounter exemplary works of art in museums, other public spaces, and on the World Wide Web.