Student Assessment Task Prompts: Second Grade
Responding
Performance Standard VA:Re7.2.2a: Categorize images based upon expressive properties
Key Traits: Group self-portraits according to mood or feelings
Perceive/Analyze
- How does the public artwork relate to a specific person?
- How do viewers interact with public art and the space in which it is displayed?
- How do life experiences influence the way you relate to art?
Performance Standard VA:Re8.1.2a: Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.
Key Traits: Identify details in portraits that help reveal qualities about the artist or the person depicted in the portrait.
Interpret
- Where and how do we encounter images in our world?
- What is an image?
- Does the public work of art help us understand different personal experiences and cultures? How?
- How do images influence our views of the world?
Connecting
Performance Standard VA:Cn10.1.2a: Create works of art about events in home, school or community life.
Key Traits: Create art that expresses meaning about personal experiences.
Synthesize
- How does engaging in creating art enrich people’s lives?
- How does making art attune people to their surroundings?
- How do people contribute to awareness and understanding of their lives and the lives of their communities through art-making?
Performance Standard VA:Cn11.1.2a: Compare and contrast cultural uses of artworks from different times and places
Key Traits: Make personal connections to processes and artists from divers times, places and cultures.
Relate
- How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places and cultures?
- How is art used to impact the views of a society?
- How does art preserve experiences of a person?
Creating
Performance Standard VA:Cr1.1.2a: Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem
Key Traits:
- Offer a variety of possible ideas to indicate personal interests.
- Suggest ways to work with tools and materials
- Notice and understand how collaboration expands the creative process.
- What conditions, attitudes and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking?
- What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks?
- How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Performance Standard VA:Cr2.1.2a: Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
Key Traits:
- Explore materials and tools to communicate topics of personal interest in relation to art-making.
- Create a self-portrait that communicates personal experiences and/or interests.
Investigate/Plan/Make
- How do artists work?
- How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective?
- How do artists and designers learn from experimenting with materials?
Performance Standard VA:Cr2.2.2a Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools and equipment and studio spaces.
Key Trait: Demonstrate appropriate use of tools, equipment and studio space
Investigate/Plan/Make
- How do artists and designers care for and maintain materials, tools and equipment?
- Why is it important for safety and health to understand and follow correct ways to handle materials, tools and equipment?
- What responsibilities come with the freedom to create?
Performance Standard VA:Cr3.1.2a: Discuss and reflect with peers about choices made in creating artwork.
Key Traits:
- Discuss why their work is meaningful or special to them.
- Reflect on choices made and how their artwork expresses their personal interests.
- Reflect on how their artwork is similar to or different from the public art they see in their own neighborhood
Reflect/Refine/Continue
- What role does persistence play in revising, refining and developing work?
- How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms?
- How does collaboratively discussing a work of art help us experience it more fully and develop it more completely?
Presenting
Performance Standard VA:Pr4.1.2a Categorize artwork based upon a theme or concept for an exhibit.
Key Traits: Group artwork based on identified similarities and share reasons for the groupings.
Select/Analyze
- What criteria, methods and processes are used to select work for preservation or presentation?
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