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 6

Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

Achievement Standard

Students compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context
Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

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