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Alabama K–6 media arts standards

Alabama writes its own media arts standards. They are published as 2024 Alabama Course of Study: Arts Education, adopted 2024 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Manual re-acquisition (2026-07-24 deferred-subject retry). Deferred at acquisition because CSP files all five arts disciplines under one Arts Education code space with no discipline segment, so importKey collapsed 161 cross-discipline codes to one row each and destroyed ~142 of art's 539 real rows (verified from the CSP cache: every one of the 161 collisions is cross-discipline, zero within a single discipline). scripts/extract-al-arts.mjs re-fetches the same CSP text (already doc-verified at acquisition) with discipline-qualified codes, recovering every row. Verified full: 539/539 descriptions present in ALSDE's PDF (424 exact whitespace-free substrings, 115 token-complete with zero missing tokens across the grid-fragmented cells) plus a complete structural reconciliation — every discipline+grade numbers its items contiguously 1..N with no gaps or duplicates, and the grade distribution (K 70, 1-5 78-79, 6 77) is clean. art = Dance + Media Arts + Theatre + Visual Arts. Re-run the extractor after any re-fetch; the CSP Arts Education family is excluded via subjectMap.

Framework
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Arts Education
Adopted
2024
Source last checked
July 24, 2026
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126 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • MA.K.CN.10.15K
    Share ideas relating to media artworks and everyday life, with guidance.
  • MA.K.CN.10.16K
    Interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments, with guidance.
  • MA.K.CN.11.17K
    Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.
  • MA.K.CN.11.18K
    Share memorable experiences with media artworks.
  • MA.K.CR.1.1K
    Share ideas for media arts products, utilizing play and experimentation.
  • MA.K.CR.2.2K
    Develop plans and/or models for media artworks.
  • MA.K.CR.3.3K
    Construct and capture media arts content to convey meaning in media artworks.
  • MA.K.CR.3.4K
    Modify the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share the results
  • MA.K.PR.4.5K
    Combine art forms and media content to produce new media arts products, with guidance.
  • MA.K.PR.5.6K
    Identify and use basic technical skills, including handling tools and making choices, in creating media artworks.
  • MA.K.PR.5.7K
    Identify and demonstrate creative skills within media artworks.
  • MA.K.PR.5.8K
    Demonstrate and explain how media arts creation tools work.
  • MA.K.PR.6.9K
    Identify ways that media artworks are presented to others, with guidance.
  • MA.K.PR.6.10K
    Evaluate reactions to the presentation of media artworks, with guidance.
  • MA.K.RE.7.11K
    Recognize and discuss components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.K.RE.7.12K
    Explain how a variety of media artworks create different experiences, with guidance.
  • MA.K.RE.8.13K
    Share observations regarding a variety of media artworks, with guidance.
  • MA.K.RE.9.14K
    Identify and share appealing qualities in media artworks and suggest possible changes.
  • MA.1.CN.10.151
    Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life.
  • MA.1.CN.10.161
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments.
  • MA.1.CN.11.171
    Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.1.CN.11.181
    Share meaningful experiences with media artworks and explain why they are significant.
  • MA.1.CR.1.11
    Generate and express ideas for plans and models for media artworks.
  • MA.1.CR.2.21
    Use sketching and modeling to refine and present ideas for media arts projects.
  • MA.1.CR.3.31
    Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media artworks, identifying basic principles.
  • MA.1.CR.3.41
    Modify content, form, or presentation in order to refine and finish media artworks and evaluate the results.
  • MA.1.PR.4.51
    Combine varied academic and arts content to form media arts products, with guidance.
  • MA.1.PR.5.61
    Describe and demonstrate various artistic processes and roles, including technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media artworks.
  • MA.1.PR.5.71
    Describe and demonstrate creative skills within media artworks.
  • MA.1.PR.5.81
    Use a variety of tools and techniques to construct media artworks.
  • MA.1.PR.6.91
    Discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks, with guidance.
  • MA.1.PR.6.101
    Discuss personal experience of the presentation of media artworks, with guidance.
  • MA.1.RE.7.111
    Identify components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.1.RE.7.121
    Explain how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.1.RE.8.131
    Determine possible meanings of a variety of media artworks, with guidance.
  • MA.1.RE.9.141
    Identify parts of media artworks that viewers or listeners would find effective and propose possible changes.
  • MA.2.CN.10.152
    Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.
  • MA.2.CN.10.162
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, demonstrating safe and fair practices.
  • MA.2.CN.11.172
    Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.2.CN.11.182
    Discuss experiences with media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.
  • MA.2.CR.1.12
    Utilize productive thinking, improvisation, and collaboration to generate multiple concepts or media arts products.
  • MA.2.CR.2.22
    Choose from several ideas to create plans and models for media artworks.
  • MA.2.CR.3.32
    Construct and assemble content for unified media artworks, identifying and applying basic principles.
  • MA.2.CR.3.42
    Test and describe expressive effects to alter, refine, and complete media artworks.
  • MA.2.PR.4.52
    Combine varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media arts products, with minimal guidance.
  • MA.2.PR.5.62
    Demonstrate basic ability in various artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.
  • MA.2.PR.5.72
    Use experimentation skills within and through media artworks.
  • MA.2.PR.5.82
    Explore and demonstrate methods of using tools to capture and construct media artworks.
  • MA.2.PR.6.92
    Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform tasks in presenting media artworks.
  • MA.2.PR.6.102
    Share results of presenting media artworks.
  • MA.2.RE.7.112
    Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.2.RE.7.122
    Describe how various media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.2.RE.8.132
    Use context to determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks.
  • MA.2.RE.9.142
    Discuss the effectiveness of media artworks and suggest improvements based on their context.
  • MA.3.CN.10.153
    Explain how ideas from media artworks relate to everyday cultural life and influence values and online behavior.
  • MA.3.CN.10.163
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, applying safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.3.CN.11.173
    Use personal and external resources to create media artworks.
  • MA.3.CN.11.183
    Explain and show how media artworks form meanings and influence culture.
  • MA.3.CR.1.13
    Develop multiple ideas for a media arts product, utilizing a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.
  • MA.3.CR.2.23
    Generate and share ideas to develop media artworks and test models for them.
  • MA.3.CR.3.33
    Construct and organize various content into unified, purposeful media artworks, applying a defined set of principles.
  • MA.3.CR.3.43
    Test and analyze how manipulating basic elements of a medium alters effect and purpose when refining and completing media artworks.
  • MA.3.PR.4.53
    Combine varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media arts products.
  • MA.3.PR.5.63
    Perform an artistic, design, technical, or organizational role in producing media artworks, including making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and planning.
  • MA.3.PR.5.73
    Utilize basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media artworks.
  • MA.3.PR.5.83
    Use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.
  • MA.3.PR.6.93
    Identify and describe the presentation conditions when carrying out processes to present or distribute media artworks.
  • MA.3.PR.6.103
    Describe and share the results of a media arts experience to improve the total production.
  • MA.3.RE.7.113
    Explain how components of media artworks create messages, using examples.
  • MA.3.RE.7.123
    Identify various forms, methods, and styles used in media artworks to manage audience experience.
  • MA.3.RE.8.133
    Use the contexts of media artworks to determine their purposes and infer their meanings.
  • MA.3.RE.9.143
    Evaluate media artworks, using basic criteria and describing possible improvements and contexts.
  • MA.4.CN.10.154
    Explain verbally and/or in media artworks how media art productions and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.
  • MA.4.CN.10.164
    Determine safe, ethical,and fair use when interacting with media arts tools and environments.
  • MA.4.CN.11.174
    Select and use personal and external resources, including interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.
  • MA.4.CN.11.184
    Investigate and show how media artworks create meanings and/or cultural experiences.
  • MA.4.CR.1.14
    Create and share concepts for original media arts products, utilizing a variety of creative methods including brainstorming and modeling.
  • MA.4.CR.2.24
    Create and test models for media artworks, including artistic goals and presentation.
  • MA.4.CR.3.34
    Arrange varied content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media artworks, applying associated artistic principles including balance and contrast.
  • MA.4.CR.3.44
    Refine media artworks by emphasizing elements of design to create an intentional effect.
  • MA.4.PR.4.54
    Demonstrate different ways to combine a variety of academic, arts, and media content and forms into media arts products.
  • MA.4.PR.5.64
    Collaborate to produce media artworks, using foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.
  • MA.4.PR.5.74
    Use design thinking to address problems within and through media artworks.
  • MA.4.PR.5.84
    Use tools and techniques in standard and innovative ways to construct media artworks.
  • MA.4.PR.6.94
    Explain how the presentation conditions influence decisions made when fulfilling a role in presenting or distributing media artworks.
  • MA.4.PR.6.104
    Explain results of presenting media artworks and suggest improvements.
  • MA.4.RE.7.114
    Identify components in media artworks that create messages and explain how they convey those messages.
  • MA.4.RE.7.124
    Identify various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks and explain how they manage audience experience.
  • MA.4.RE.8.134
    Explain how reactions to and interpretations of a variety of media artworks reflect both purpose and context.
  • MA.4.RE.9.144
    Use basic criteria to evaluate and improve production processes, media artworks, and contexts.
  • MA.5.CN.10.155
    Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social, and community life.
  • MA.5.CN.10.165
    Discuss and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, demonstrating ethical use and media literacy.
  • MA.5.CN.11.175
    Access and use internal and external resources to create media artworks.
  • MA.5.CN.11.185
    Demonstrate how media artworks create new meanings and enhance cultural experiences.
  • MA.5.CR.1.15
    Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, drawing from personal experiences and/or the work of others.
  • MA.5.CR.2.25
    Develop and test ideas, models, and proposals for media artworks that reflect the artistic goals and audience.
  • MA.5.CR.3.35
    Design and combine components to express purpose and meaning in a variety of media artworks, utilizing sets of associated principles.
  • MA.5.CR.3.45
    Determine how elements and components of media artworks can be modified for clear communication and intentional effects, then revise works to increase their impact and clarify their purpose.
  • MA.5.PR.4.55
    Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.
  • MA.5.PR.5.65
    Demonstrate artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, including formal technique, production, and collaboration, in producing media artworks.
  • MA.5.PR.5.75
    Demonstrate fundamental creative and innovative abilities, including expanding conventions, to address problems within and through media artworks.
  • MA.5.PR.5.85
    Explain how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways to construct media artworks.
  • MA.5.PR.6.95
    Compare qualities and purposes of various presentation formats, then fulfill a role in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks using one or more of those formats.
  • MA.5.PR.6.105
    Compare results of presenting media artworks in various situations and suggest modifications.
  • MA.5.RE.7.115
    Evaluate how message and meaning are created by various components in media artworks.
  • MA.5.RE.7.125
    Differentiate among forms, methods, and styles designed to manage audience experience.
  • MA.5.RE.8.135
    Compare personal and group interpretations of a variety of media artworks based on their intention and context.
  • MA.5.RE.9.145
    Evaluate the production of media artworks, including their context, and suggest improvements.
  • MA.MS1.CN.10.156
    Demonstrate how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life and social, community, and cultural situations.
  • MA.MS1.CN.10.166
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, and explain their use of practices regarding fair use, copyright, ethics, and media literacy.
  • MA.MS1.CN.11.176
    Use internal and external resources to evaluate media artworks.
  • MA.MS1.CN.11.186
    Explain how media artworks form new meanings and cultural experiences.
  • MA.MS1.CR.1.16
    Generate goals and solutions for media arts products, utilizing chosen creative processes.
  • MA.MS1.CR.2.26
    Organize and plan artistic ideas and prototypes and the production processes needed to create them, demonstrating purposeful intent.
  • MA.MS1.CR.3.36
    Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for specific purpose and meaning in media artworks, utilizing a range of associated principles.
  • MA.MS1.CR.3.46
    Assess how elements and components can be altered for specific effects and audiences, then refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
  • MA.MS1.PR.4.56
    Explain how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork, including media, narratives, and performance.
  • MA.MS1.PR.5.66
    Perform various roles in producing media artworks, including invention, formal technique, and problem-solving, to develop artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.
  • MA.MS1.PR.5.76
    Demonstrate a variety of creative and adaptive abilities in developing solutions within and through media artworks.
  • MA.MS1.PR.5.86
    Demonstrate adaptability in constructing media artworks, using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways.
  • MA.MS1.PR.6.96
    Analyze various presentation formats and select the best fit based on intentions to present and/or distribute media artworks.
  • MA.MS1.PR.6.106
    Analyze results of presenting media artworks and suggest improvements.
  • MA.MS1.RE.7.116
    Analyze how messages and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.MS1.RE.7.126
    Analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.MS1.RE.8.136
    Analyze the intent of a variety of media artworks, using teacher-provided criteria.
  • MA.MS1.RE.9.146
    Evaluate production processes and contexts in various media artworks, using teacher-supplied criteria, and share constructive feedback.

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