ARTSEDGE: 5-8 Visual Arts

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Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).

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Visual Arts

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Content Standard 2

Using knowledge of structures and functions

Achievement Standard

Students generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work
Students employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas
Students select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas

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