Scope & Sequence

KINDERGARTEN:

• Learns names of colors
• Expresses ideas in a variety of art experiences
• Uses imagination in talking about artworks
• Participates in manipulation of materials (such as crayons, pencils, markers, clay, scissors, paste, paint, chalk) to create artworks
• Experiments with lines, shapes, texture, and color
• Develops visual/perceptual skills by looking at their environment
• Learns proper care and clean-up of materials and takes responsibility for it

GRADE 1:

• Builds self-esteem through creative and imaginative activities, while acquiring basic media skills
• Recognizes visual elements of design (space, lines, shapes, texture, and color)
• Develops perceptual awareness and enjoyment of art
• Begins to make new colors by mixing
• Develops a store of simple art vocabulary
• Recognizes geometric shapes and uses them abstractly
• Learns correct use of materials and takes responsibility for clean-up

GRADE 2:

• Begins to apply the visual characteristics of design elements and principles in artwork
• Creates from personal experiences, imagination, and recall
• Identifies and discusses different kinds of lines and creates them with different media
• Identifies primary and secondary colors
• Develops cutting skills
• Paints more effectively—soft and hard edges
• Learns basic weaving skills
• Uses paste and glue correctly
• Makes personal choices in selecting printing techniques

GRADE 3:

• Expands creative efforts with the use of personal experiences, imagination, and recall
• Draws depth with simple one-point perspective
• Explores a variety of techniques and media in various combinations
• Learns to use correct proportions and details
• Learns to make color choices and tints, tones, and shades
• Learns to create 3-dimensional and kinetic art
• Understands space (foreground, middleground, and background)
• Develops an appreciation toward art history and aesthetics (such as respect for art monuments)

GRADE 4:

• Applies basic elements and principles of design to artworks based on imagination and observation
• Draws basic shapes and changes them to 3-dimensional drawings and solid forms
• Begins basic two-point linear perspective
• Focuses on sketching techniques
• Uses colors and values to express mood
• Respects originality (no tracing or copying) in own visual artworks and artworks of others
• Attempts creative lettering styles
• Develops a positive attitude toward viewing and appreciating other artworks

GRADE 5:

• Expresses imagination from an expanded store of knowledge
• Begins to show a degree of craftsmanship
• Demonstrates ability in design by variation in lines, shapes, color, sizes, and textures
• Applies basic design principles (balance, repetition, dominance, accent, unity)
• Explores sculpting methods
• Draws two-point perspective with a variety of ground levels
• Works with complementary colors to create moods
• Produces simple, practical layouts
• Studies artistic accomplishments of contemporary, historic, and prehistoric cultures

GRADE 6:

• Uses personal experiences as the catalyst in making art forms
• Looks for new ways to organize space, using elements and principles of design
• Understands the role that the visual arts have played in history
• Learns to make informed aesthetic responses to artworks
• Mixes colors in more complex ways to make tints, tones, and shades
• Uses drawing to increase observation skills and eye-hand coordination
• Recognizes that art communicates feelings and ideas
• Identifies and uses types of brush strokes and techniques used by skilled artists

Rock Art Images courtesy of JQ Jacobs