New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
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The Arts: Visual Art
Curriculum Standard 2
Identify and apply the elements of visual art and principles of design.
General Music Proficiency Standards
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Recognize the visual elements including color, shape, form, space, line, value, and texture.
- Describe the principles of design including balance, unity and rhythm.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Recognize and reflect on the effects of arranging visual characteristics in works of art.
- Select and use the elements of art and principles of design to improve communication and expression of ideas.
- Describe and analyze visual characteristics of works of art using visual arts terminology.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a more complex understanding of the elements of art and principles of design to accomplish commercial, personal, communal or other purposes of art.
- Compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and defend personal evaluations of these perspectives.
Additional Proficiency Standards Grades 9-12
In addition to the above, students will be able to:
- Describe the elements of art and principles of design found in origins of specific images and ideas.
