BSD Visual Arts
Kindergarten Essential Learning
Skills and techniques (EALR 1)
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Use the artistic process to create works in drawing, painting, 2D and 3D media
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Demonstrate safe and proper use of art tools, materials and studio space
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Identify and demonstrate 4 basic lines: straight, curve, zigzag, wavy
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Identify primary colors
Use geometric (E.G. circle, square, rectangle, oval, triangle, rhombus) and organic shapes
Apply slab, pinch or stamp techniques to clay (or other modeling material)
Demonstrate regular (AAAA) and alternating (ABAB) patterns
Creative Process (EALR 2)
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Communicate ideas and/or feelings through visual images
Artistic analysis/critique and communication (EALR 3)
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Explain and discuss art with others (with teacher support and direction)
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Understand that 3D work is viewed from multiple angles
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Verbally describe space (over, under, below)
Connection to art history, artists, and cultures (EALR 4)
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Understand how individual works of art studied and created in class reflect cultural and historical context
First Grade Essential Learning
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Identify and use line direction (horizontal, vertical, diagonal)
Identify and create secondary colors
Understand, identify and create geometric and organic shapes
Identify and create 3D forms (sphere, cube, cone, rectangular prism, cylinder)
Independently create a composition that fills the whole space.
Create a work that can be seen from multiple views (in the round)
Create work with radial balance/symmetry
Demonstrate ABC,ABC pattern
Second Grade Essential Learning
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Use thick, thin, and interrupted line
Identify warm and cool colors.
Use color intentionally to express mood
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Identify, use, and produce shapes (parallelogram, trapezoid)
Apply coil and joining techniques
Make a composition using overlapping
Demonstrate reflective symmetry
Produce a variety of patterns in 2D and 3D artworks
Explore repetition of elements to create movement/rhythm
Third Grade Essential Learning
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Identify the difference between actual and visual texture
Use deliberate line choices to create mood in a piece of art
Identify and mix tints and shades
Uses shapes as symbols for meaning
Create and artwork using size and detail to create depth
Create a composition using foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line
Demonstrate understanding of object proportions
Simplify and exaggerate to abstract
Demonstrate asymmetrical composition
Identify rhythm and movement in an artwork
Fourth Grade Essential Learning
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Identify and use light, medium, and dark values made by line
Identify complementary colors. Each secondary is made of 2 primary colors
Identify and demonstrate positive and negative space in an artwork.
Draw a square and rectangle that is parallel to the bottom edge of the paper.
Draw 3D shapes in a system of one-point linear perspective.
Create the illusion of 3D form (value, perspective)
Create an object to demonstrate human proportions
Generate an artwork demonstrating rhythm or movement (calm/static, variety/chaos)
Fifth Grade Essential Learning
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Identify a contour line
Use line techniques (hatching, cross-hatching, stippling) to create value in a drawing
Identify and use analogous colors. Any three colors next to each other on the color wheel
Mix complementary colors to make a neutral
Use one-point linear perspective to draw a cityscape or interior space.
Make a composition with an emphasis/focal point.
Create an artwork demonstrating “point of view”.