Arts Ed

Arts Education 6 & 7

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Big Ideas

Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and community. Artistic expressions differ across time and place. Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating. Experiencing art is a means to develop empathy for others’ perspectives and experiences.
Through art making, one’s sense of identity and community continually evolves. Experiencing art challenges our point of view and expands our understanding of others. Engaging in the arts develops people’s ability to understand and express complex ideas.
Curricular Competency

Content

We are working on developing the creative process to:

Exploring and creating

  • Intentionally select and apply materials, movements, technologies, environments, tools, and techniques by combining and arranging artistic elements, processes, and principles in art making
  • Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
  • Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through the arts
  • Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts in relation to the arts

Reasoning and reflecting

  • Research, describe, interpret and evaluate how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments in the arts
  • Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills in a variety of art forms to improve the quality of artistic creations
  • Reflect on works of art and creative processes to understand artists’ intentions
  • Interpret works of art using knowledge and skills from various areas of learning
  • Examine relationships between the arts and the wider world

Communicating and documenting

  • Adapt learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences
  • Interpret and communicate ideas using symbols and elements to express meaning through the arts
  • Take creative risks to express feelings, ideas, and experiences
  • Express, feelings, ideas, and experiences through the arts
  • Describe, interpret and respond to works of art
  • Experience, document, choreograph, perform, and share creative works in a variety of ways
  • Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content
We will be investigating the following content this year:

  • manipulation of elements and principles to create meaning in the arts, including but not limited to:
    • dance: body, space, dynamics (dance), time, relationships, form, and movement principles
    • drama: character, time, place, plot, tension, mood, focus, contrast
    • music: beat/pulse, metre, duration, rhythm (music), tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics (music), form (music), texture, notation
    • visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form (visual arts), value; principles of design: pattern, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm (visual arts), movement, variety, proportion, unity, harmony
  • processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, strategies, and techniques to support creative works
  • choreographic devices
  • drama forms and drama conventions
  • notation in music and dance to represent sounds, ideas, movement, elements, and actions
  • image development strategies
  • symbolism and metaphor to explore ideas and perspective
  • traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes
  • a variety of national and international works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places
  • ethical considerations and cultural appropriation related to the arts
  • personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or presenting in a safe learning environment