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 5

Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others

Achievement Standard

Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art
Students analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry
Students describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures

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