Grade 2 • Visual Art What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 2 Visual Art

What Your Child Will Learn

Respond and interact with the visual world to develop an understanding of meaning, context, and artistic processes.

  • Develop an understanding of appropriate art vocabulary when responding to the visual world.
  • Recognize and describe formal qualities and identify subject matter in the visual world.
  • Distinguish between different tools, materials, processes, and techniques used in visual art.
  • Recognize how artists use visual art forms to represent what people see, know, feel, and imagine.
  • Identify and describe how outside influences and life experiences affect the meaning of art objects.
  • Identify connections between visual art and society.

Create and develop new or personal ideas

  • Draw and record observations, ideas, and memories as a continual process in art.
  • Use personal knowledge and explore select strategies to generate ideas for a given art problem.
  • Develop a personal work of art inspired by master artists or an interdisciplinary theme.
  • Explore and use select strategies in making art that draw upon observation, memory, imagination, experimentation, or narrative.
  • Practice using formal qualities to approach art problems.
  • Use a variety of tools, materials, processes and techniques appropriately and safely to promote quality craftsmanship.
  • Use feedback and criteria to further develop and improve personal responses to art problems.
  • Use resources, criteria and multi-step directions to solve art problems within established time parameters.

Present personal artistic intent and choices through reflection, thoughtful presentation and/or exhibition of personal work

  • Review artwork as a way of reflecting on personal growth throughout the course of a studio experience.
  • Reflect on criteria achieved, artistic process, formal qualities, artist exemplar, or personal meaning in the completion of a work of art.
  • Use established criteria to evaluate completeness for presentation.
  • Verbally share personal choices made during the art making process.

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