Oregon State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten

OR.1. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Create, present and perform works of art.

1.1. Use essential elements and organizational principles to create, present and/or perform works of art for a variety of purposes.

1.1.1. Use experiences, imagination, essential elements and organizational principles to achieve a desired effect when creating, presenting and/or performing works of art.

OR.2. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Apply the use of ideas, techniques and problem solving to the creative process and analyze the influence that choices have on the result.

2.1. Explore and describe the use of ideas, techniques, and problem solving in the creative process (e.g., planning, choice of medium, choice of tools, analysis and revision) and identify the impact of choices made.

2.1.1. Explore aspects of the creative process and the effect of different choices on one's work.

OR.3. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Express ideas, moods and feelings through the arts and evaluate how well a work of art expresses one's intent.

3.1. Create, present and/or perform a work of art that demonstrates an idea, mood or feeling by using essential elements and organizational principles, and describe how well the work expresses one's intent.

3.1.1. Create, present and/or perform a work of art that demonstrates an idea, mood or feeling.

OR.4. Arts Education: Create, Present and Perform: Apply ideas, techniques and processes in the arts. Evaluate one's own work, orally and in writing.

4.1. Critique and communicate about one's own work, orally and in writing.

4.1.1. Describe how one's own work reveals knowledge of the arts, orally and in writing.

OR.5. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Apply critical analysis to works of art.

5.1. Apply knowledge of essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria to the analysis of works of art, and identify how the elements and principles contribute to the aesthetic effect.

5.1.1. Recognize essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic effects in works of art.

OR.6. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Respond to works of art and give reasons for preferences.

6.1. Respond to works of art, giving reasons for preferences and using terminology that conveys knowledge of the arts.

6.1.1. Identify and describe personal preferences connected with viewing or listening to a work of art using terminology that conveys knowledge of the arts.

OR.7. Arts Education: Aesthetics and Criticism: Respond to and analyze works of art, based on essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic criteria. Understand the interrelationships among art forms.

7.1. Describe how essential elements and organizational principles from various arts disciplines can be integrated in a work of art and identify how they contribute to the aesthetic effect, overall idea and impact of the work.

7.1.1. Identify the disciplines used in an integrated work of art.

OR.8. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand how events and conditions influence the arts.

8.1. Explain the influence of events and conditions on works of art.

8.1.1. Identify an event or condition that influenced a work of art.

OR.9. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Distinguish works of art from different societies, time periods and cultures.

9.1. Distinguish works of art from different societies, time periods and cultures, emphasizing their common and unique characteristics.

9.1.1. Identify social, historical and cultural characteristics in a work of art.

OR.10. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand how the arts can reflect the environment and personal experiences within a society or culture, and apply to one's own work.

10.1. Explain how a work of art reflects the artist's environment and personal experience within a society or culture, and apply to one's own work.

10.1.1. Describe how art from the student's community reflects the artist's environment and culture.

OR.11. Arts Education: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Understand the relationship of works of art to their social, historical and cultural contexts, and the influence of the arts on individuals, communities and cultures. Understand the place of the arts within, and their influences on, society.

11.1. Explain how the arts serve a variety of personal, professional, practical, economic, community and cultural needs.

11.1.1. Describe how the arts serve a variety of purposes in the student's life, community and culture.

11.2. Describe how the arts can influence individuals, communities and cultures.

11.2.1. Recognize how the arts can influence an individual's life.