Browse North Carolina State Standards

 Competency Goals:: 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
Objectives:
1.01: Use immediate environment, including family, home and surroundings, as source of ideas. 1.02: Use imagination as a source of ideas. 1.03: Understand and follow step-by-step presentation of art activities. 1.04: Begin to develop appropriate art vocabulary 1.05: Develop symbols for visual expression 1.06: Select color according to emotional appeal 1.07: Explore a variety of media 1.08: Create work that does not conform to adult standards of realism. 1.09: Select artwork they "like the best" and simply explain why. 1.10: Illustrate poems, stories and rhymes 1.11: Use all the senses to gain information and awareness about their environment. 1.12: Perhaps find inspiration from a variety of artwork