Courses of Study

Number of Standards matching query: 15
Creating
Investigate, Plan, Make
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 6
Learning Activities: 2
Classroom Resources: 4
1) Brainstorm collaboratively to create a work of art.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 30
Learning Activities: 1
Lesson Plans: 1
Classroom Resources: 28
2) Explore personal interests and curiosities with a range of art materials.

a. Create two-dimensional art.

Examples: Paper-weaving, drawing, and resist painting.

Use book about weaving, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood & Martin Link.

b. Create three-dimensional art.

Examples: Clay animals and pipe cleaner sculptures.

Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 18
Learning Activities: 1
Lesson Plans: 1
Classroom Resources: 16
3) Extend skills by individually following sequential steps to create works of art on subjects that are real or imaginary.

Example: Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle.
Create a real or imagined home.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 1
Classroom Resources: 1
4) Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for cleaning, utilizing, and maintaining materials, tools, and equipment while making art.

Examples: properly using brushes, closing glue bottles and marker tops.

Reflect, Refine, Continue
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 6
Learning Activities: 3
Classroom Resources: 3
5) Create an artwork using found and/or recycled objects.

Examples: Use objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc.
Use book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 8
Learning Activities: 1
Classroom Resources: 7
6) Integrate art vocabulary while planning and creating art.

a. Elements of art: line, shape, neutral colors, value, texture.

b. Picture compositions: overlapping, background, horizontal, vertical orientation.

c. Colors in the color wheel: primary, secondary, warm and cool.

Presenting
Select, Analyze, Share
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 2
Learning Activities: 1
Classroom Resources: 1
7) Collaborate on ways to publicly display artwork based on a theme or concept.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 2
Learning Activities: 1
Lesson Plans: 1
8) Explore a variety of ways to prepare artwork for presentation.

Examples: gluing artwork on construction paper, creating a name card

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 0
9) Discuss how art exhibited inside and outside of schools contributes to communities.

Responding
Perceive, Analyze, Interpret
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 1
Classroom Resources: 1
10) Perceive and describe characteristics of natural and man-made environments.

Example: Compare lines on a seashell to lines made by fence posts.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 1
Classroom Resources: 1
11) Categorize images based on expressive properties.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 7
Learning Activities: 1
Classroom Resources: 6
12) Interpret art by identifying the mood or feeling suggested by a work of art through subject matter and visual qualities.

Examples: Talk about color qualities and composition in Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist.

Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 1
Classroom Resources: 1
13) Use learned art vocabulary to express preferences about artwork.

Example: Use statements as, "I know the texture of the cat is soft from the pencil marks."

Connecting
Interpret
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 7
Classroom Resources: 7
14) Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.

Synthesize
Arts Education (2017)
Grade(s): 2
Visual Arts
All Resources: 3
Learning Activities: 1
Classroom Resources: 2
15) Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.

Example: Australian Aboriginal dot paintings and Plains Indians pictographs.