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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?
DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.