Visual Arts Education and 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills
(View Complete Item Description)Virginia’s visual arts instructional programs reinforce and support Virginia’s 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills.
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All resources in VDOE Visual Arts
Visual Arts SOL: Standard 9 At-a-Glance
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting music content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in visual arts education.
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Visual Arts SOL: Alignment to the 5 Cs
(View Complete Item Description)The Visual Arts Standards of Learning (SOL) are intentionally and directly aligned with the skills outlined in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate. The goal statements in the attached document are taken directly from the 2020 Visual Arts SOL document and re-organized to demonstrate alignment to the “5 Cs”.
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Examples of Visual Arts-related Careers
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides examples of careers in and related to visual arts.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Global Art Collaboration
(View Complete Item Description)Global Art Collaboration. Facilitated by the teacher, students connect with classrooms in other parts of the world to collaborate on a digital work of art in a cloud-based digital art platform.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Students as Art Gallery Curators
(View Complete Item Description)Students as Art Gallery Curators. Students can collect images of art work on sites approved by the teacher, which adhere to copyright and acceptable use guidelines. Images can be collected based on a theme identified by the student, or by the teacher based on lesson/unit objectives. Students can upload images and identifying information to a digital gallery for viewing by classmates, parents, and other community members or partners.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Virtual Art Discussions
(View Complete Item Description)Virtual Art Discussions. Students can respond to a style or collection of artwork using discussion tools in the school’s Learning Management System (LMS).
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Virtual Field Trips
(View Complete Item Description)Virtual Field Trips. The teacher will facilitate a virtual field trip with a museum or using other reputable interactive online art or culture experience.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Interview With an Artist
(View Complete Item Description)Interview with an Artist. Using a video conferencing platform, facilitated by the teacher, students can meet a local artist. The artist can discuss their creative process and give a tour of their studio, show what they are currently working on, and ask questions to the artist.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Media Exploration Station Rotation
(View Complete Item Description)Local Art Collaboration. Facilitated by the teacher, students connect with a high school art class to collaborate within a cloud-based platform on a digital work of art. Each student has the opportunity to contribute to the work of art.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Algorithms Unplugged
(View Complete Item Description)Algorithms Unplugged. The teacher can facilitate a paper weaving project where students create and follow a pattern while exploring and understanding the connections between coding, computing, and fiber-arts.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Art Critique With Digital White Boards
(View Complete Item Description)Art Critique with Digital White Boards. Student artists can use digital white board technology as a place to post images of their artwork for feedback from peers and teachers.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Digital Portfolio Slide Deck
(View Complete Item Description)Digital Portfolio Slide Deck of Personal Artwork Series. Students can use digital presentation software to share the process and result of a series of original works of art.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Digital Discussions Around Art
(View Complete Item Description)Think Critically about Art using Digital Discussions. Students develop critical thinking skills by engaging with artistic works and in describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating works of self and others.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Video Conference With Professional Artists
(View Complete Item Description)Video Conference With Professional Artists. Use video conferencing tools to engage with and interview professional artists about their creative processes and career pathway.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Creative Exchange
(View Complete Item Description)K-2 Visual Arts Digital Learning Integration. The teacher can facilitate a project where students create drawings of landscapes from observation, then a final project based on landscapes of the area where students live using any media or techniques of the teacher’s choosing.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Ask the Artist
(View Complete Item Description)Ask the Artist. Facilitated by the teacher, students can collaborate on developing an online form to be shared alongside works of art being displayed.
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Digital Media Lesson Starter: Digital Monster Illustrations
(View Complete Item Description)Students will explore elements if art in a digital drawing program.
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Instructional Plan: Found Object Assemblage
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn about artists who create assemblages using found objects. After learning about colors and spatial relationships in composition, students will create an assemblage using found household objects in the color of their choice.
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Instructional Plan: Music and Emotion Through Art
(View Complete Item Description)Students will look at the difference between abstract, non-representational, and representational work before creating their own piece of art. The work of art they create will be a depiction of their own emotions while listening to different types (genres) of music. Students will choose from available media and create a work based on their own emotional response to the musical selections.
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