Alabama K–6 media arts standards

Share ideas relating to media artworks and everyday life, with guidance.

Interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments, with guidance.

Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.

Share memorable experiences with media artworks.

Share ideas for media arts products, utilizing play and experimentation.

Develop plans and/or models for media artworks.

Construct and capture media arts content to convey meaning in media artworks.

Modify the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share the results

Combine art forms and media content to produce new media arts products, with guidance.

Identify and use basic technical skills, including handling tools and making choices, in creating media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate creative skills within media artworks.

Demonstrate and explain how media arts creation tools work.

Identify ways that media artworks are presented to others, with guidance.

Evaluate reactions to the presentation of media artworks, with guidance.

Recognize and discuss components and messages in media artworks.

Explain how a variety of media artworks create different experiences, with guidance.

Share observations regarding a variety of media artworks, with guidance.

Identify and share appealing qualities in media artworks and suggest possible changes.

Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments.

Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.

Share meaningful experiences with media artworks and explain why they are significant.

Generate and express ideas for plans and models for media artworks.

Use sketching and modeling to refine and present ideas for media arts projects.

Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media artworks, identifying basic principles.

Modify content, form, or presentation in order to refine and finish media artworks and evaluate the results.

Combine varied academic and arts content to form media arts products, with guidance.

Describe and demonstrate various artistic processes and roles, including technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media artworks.

Describe and demonstrate creative skills within media artworks.

Use a variety of tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

Discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks, with guidance.

Discuss personal experience of the presentation of media artworks, with guidance.

Identify components and messages in media artworks.

Explain how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

Determine possible meanings of a variety of media artworks, with guidance.

Identify parts of media artworks that viewers or listeners would find effective and propose possible changes.

Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, demonstrating safe and fair practices.

Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.

Discuss experiences with media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.

Utilize productive thinking, improvisation, and collaboration to generate multiple concepts or media arts products.

Choose from several ideas to create plans and models for media artworks.

Construct and assemble content for unified media artworks, identifying and applying basic principles.

Test and describe expressive effects to alter, refine, and complete media artworks.

Combine varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media arts products, with minimal guidance.

Demonstrate basic ability in various artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.

Use experimentation skills within and through media artworks.

Explore and demonstrate methods of using tools to capture and construct media artworks.

Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform tasks in presenting media artworks.

Share results of presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.

Describe how various media artworks create different experiences.

Use context to determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks.

Discuss the effectiveness of media artworks and suggest improvements based on their context.

Explain how ideas from media artworks relate to everyday cultural life and influence values and online behavior.

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, applying safety, rules, and fairness.

Use personal and external resources to create media artworks.

Explain and show how media artworks form meanings and influence culture.

Develop multiple ideas for a media arts product, utilizing a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.

Generate and share ideas to develop media artworks and test models for them.

Construct and organize various content into unified, purposeful media artworks, applying a defined set of principles.

Test and analyze how manipulating basic elements of a medium alters effect and purpose when refining and completing media artworks.

Combine varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media arts products.

Perform an artistic, design, technical, or organizational role in producing media artworks, including making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and planning.

Utilize basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media artworks.

Use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

Identify and describe the presentation conditions when carrying out processes to present or distribute media artworks.

Describe and share the results of a media arts experience to improve the total production.

Explain how components of media artworks create messages, using examples.

Identify various forms, methods, and styles used in media artworks to manage audience experience.

Use the contexts of media artworks to determine their purposes and infer their meanings.

Evaluate media artworks, using basic criteria and describing possible improvements and contexts.

Explain verbally and/or in media artworks how media art productions and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.

Determine safe, ethical,and fair use when interacting with media arts tools and environments.

Select and use personal and external resources, including interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

Investigate and show how media artworks create meanings and/or cultural experiences.

Create and share concepts for original media arts products, utilizing a variety of creative methods including brainstorming and modeling.

Create and test models for media artworks, including artistic goals and presentation.

Arrange varied content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media artworks, applying associated artistic principles including balance and contrast.

Refine media artworks by emphasizing elements of design to create an intentional effect.

Demonstrate different ways to combine a variety of academic, arts, and media content and forms into media arts products.

Collaborate to produce media artworks, using foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.

Use design thinking to address problems within and through media artworks.

Use tools and techniques in standard and innovative ways to construct media artworks.

Explain how the presentation conditions influence decisions made when fulfilling a role in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Explain results of presenting media artworks and suggest improvements.

Identify components in media artworks that create messages and explain how they convey those messages.

Identify various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks and explain how they manage audience experience.

Explain how reactions to and interpretations of a variety of media artworks reflect both purpose and context.

Use basic criteria to evaluate and improve production processes, media artworks, and contexts.

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social, and community life.

Discuss and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, demonstrating ethical use and media literacy.

Access and use internal and external resources to create media artworks.

Demonstrate how media artworks create new meanings and enhance cultural experiences.

Present original ideas and innovations for media arts products, drawing from personal experiences and/or the work of others.

Develop and test ideas, models, and proposals for media artworks that reflect the artistic goals and audience.

Design and combine components to express purpose and meaning in a variety of media artworks, utilizing sets of associated principles.

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.

Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.

Demonstrate artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, including formal technique, production, and collaboration, in producing media artworks.

Demonstrate fundamental creative and innovative abilities, including expanding conventions, to address problems within and through media artworks.

Explain how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways to construct media artworks.

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.

Compare results of presenting media artworks in various situations and suggest modifications.

Evaluate how message and meaning are created by various components in media artworks.

Differentiate among forms, methods, and styles designed to manage audience experience.

Compare personal and group interpretations of a variety of media artworks based on their intention and context.

Evaluate the production of media artworks, including their context, and suggest improvements.

Demonstrate how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life and social, community, and cultural situations.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, and explain their use of practices regarding fair use, copyright, ethics, and media literacy.

Use internal and external resources to evaluate media artworks.

Explain how media artworks form new meanings and cultural experiences.

Generate goals and solutions for media arts products, utilizing chosen creative processes.

Organize and plan artistic ideas and prototypes and the production processes needed to create them, demonstrating purposeful intent.

Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for specific purpose and meaning in media artworks, utilizing a range of associated principles.

Assess how elements and components can be altered for specific effects and audiences, then refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.

Explain how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork, including media, narratives, and performance.

Perform various roles in producing media artworks, including invention, formal technique, and problem-solving, to develop artistic, design, technical, and soft skills.

Demonstrate a variety of creative and adaptive abilities in developing solutions within and through media artworks.

Demonstrate adaptability in constructing media artworks, using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways.

Analyze various presentation formats and select the best fit based on intentions to present and/or distribute media artworks.

Analyze results of presenting media artworks and suggest improvements.

Analyze how messages and meaning are created by components in media artworks.

Analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Analyze the intent of a variety of media artworks, using teacher-provided criteria.

Evaluate production processes and contexts in various media artworks, using teacher-supplied criteria, and share constructive feedback.