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Arizona K–6 media arts standards

Arizona writes its own media arts standards. They are published as Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts (Dance/Theatre 2019, Media/Visual 2015), adopted 2015 and are not a version of a national framework. 99 of 100 are matched to a national standard.

Framework
Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts (Dance/Theatre 2019, Media/Visual 2015)
Adopted
2015
Source last checked
July 22, 2026
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100 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • MA.CN.10.KaK
    Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.
  • MA.CN.10.KbK
    Share memorable experiences of media artworks.
  • MA.CN.11.KaK
    With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.
  • MA.CN.11.KbK
    With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments.
  • MA.CR.1.KaK
    Share ideas for media artworks through guided exploration of methods, and imagining.
  • MA.CR.2.KaK
    With guidance, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.
  • MA.CR.3.KaK
    Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions (such as symbols).
  • MA.CR.3.KbK
    Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.
  • MA.PR.5.KaK
    Identify and demonstrate basic skills, including handling tools, making choices, and cooperating in creating media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.KbK
    Identify and demonstrate creative skills, including performing, within media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.KcK
    Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.
  • MA.PR.6.KaK
    With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.KbK
    With guidance, identify and share reactions to the presentation of media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.KaK
    Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.KbK
    Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.CN.10.1a1
    Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.CN.10.1b1
    Discuss memorable experiences of media artworks.
  • MA.CN.11.1a1
    Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life (such as popular media, and connections with family and friends).
  • MA.CN.11.1b1
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.CR.1.1a1
    Discover and share ideas for media artworks using play, experimentation and imagining.
  • MA.CR.2.1a1
    With guidance, use teacher-identified ideas to form plans and models for media arts productions.
  • MA.CR.3.1a1
    Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, identifying basic principles (such as pattern and repetition).
  • MA.CR.3.1b1
    Practice and identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation, in order to refine and finish media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.1a1
    Describe and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles (such as technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media arts productions).
  • MA.PR.5.1b1
    Describe and demonstrate basic creative skills within media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.1c1
    Experiment with and share different ways to use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.1a1
    With guidance, discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.1b1
    With guidance, discuss the experience of the presentation of media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.1a1
    Identify components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.1b1
    With guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.CN.10.2a2
    Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.CN.10.2b2
    Discuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.
  • MA.CN.11.2a2
    Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life (such as media messages and media environments).
  • MA.CN.11.2b2
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.CR.1.2a2
    Express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.
  • MA.CR.2.2a2
    Choose ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.
  • MA.CR.3.2a2
    Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles (such as positioning and attention).
  • MA.CR.3.2b2
    Test and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.2a2
    Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.2b2
    Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.CN.10.3a3
    Use personal and external resources (such as interests, information, and models) to create media artworks.
  • MA.CN.10.3b3
    Identify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or culture (such as popular media).
  • MA.CN.11.3a3
    Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and can influence values and online behavior.
  • MA.CN.11.3b3
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.CR.1.3a3
    Discover multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.
  • MA.CR.2.3a3
    Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.
  • MA.CR.3.3a3
    Construct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of principles (such as movement and force).
  • MA.CR.3.3b3
    Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.3a3
    Practice roles to demonstrate basic ability in various teacher- identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as tool use and collaboration in media arts productions).
  • MA.PR.5.3b3
    Demonstrate use of experimentation skills (such as playful practice, and trial and error) within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.3c3
    Demonstrate and explore teacher-identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks. 2nd
  • MA.PR.6.3a3
    Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.3b3
    Identify and describe the experience, and share results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.3a3
    Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.3b3
    Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.CN.10.4a4
    Examine and use personal and external resources (such as interests, research, and cultural understanding) to create media artworks.
  • MA.CN.10.4b4
    Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences (such as online spaces).
  • MA.CN.11.4a4
    Explain verbally and/or in media artworks, how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life (such as fantasy and reality, and technology use).
  • MA.CN.11.4b4
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, fairness, media literacy and social media.
  • MA.CR.1.4a4
    Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of methods and/or materials.
  • MA.CR.2.4a4
    Form, discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.
  • MA.CR.3.4a4
    Structure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated principles (such as balance and contrast).
  • MA.CR.3.4b4
    Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.
  • MA.PR.5.4a4
    Practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, and collaboration in media arts productions) through performing teacher-identified roles in producing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.4b4
    Practice foundational innovative abilities (such as design thinking) in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.4c4
    Exhibit standard and novel ways of using tools and techniques while constructing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.4a4
    Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.4b4
    Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.4a4
    Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.4b4
    Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.CN.10.5a5
    Access and use internal and external resources to create media artworks (such as interests, knowledge, and experiences).
  • MA.CN.10.5b5
    Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and cultural experiences (such as news and cultural events)
  • MA.CN.11.5a5
    Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social and community life (such as exploring commercial and information purposes, history, and ethics).
  • MA.CN.11.5b5
    Examine, discuss and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, media literacy, and social media.
  • MA.CR.1.5a5
    Conceive original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of creative methods (such as brainstorming and modeling).
  • MA.CR.2.5a5
    Develop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.
  • MA.CR.3.5a5
    Create content and combine components to convey expression, purpose, and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated principles (such as emphasis and exaggeration).
  • MA.CR.3.5b5
    Determine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.
  • MA.PR.5.5a5
    Practice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as formal technique, production, and collaboration in media arts productions) through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.5b5
    Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities (such as expanding conventions) in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.5c5
    Demonstrate how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks
  • MA.PR.6.5a5
    Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.5b5
    Compare results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.5a5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.5b5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.CN.10.6a6
    Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to create media artworks (such as knowledge, experiences, interests, and research).
  • MA.CN.10.6b6
    Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences (such as historical events).
  • MA.CN.11.6a6
    Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life, and social, community, and cultural situations (such as personal identity, history, and entertainment).
  • MA.CN.11.6b6
    Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy, social media, virtual worlds, and digital identity.
  • MA.CR.1.6a6
    Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others.
  • MA.CR.2.6a6
    Develop, organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
  • MA.CR.3.6a6
    Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated principles (such as point of view and perspective).
  • MA.CR.3.6b6
    Evaluate how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
  • MA.PR.5.6a6
    Develop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as invention, formal technique, production, self-initiative, and problem-solving) through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.5.6b6
    Utilize teacher-identified creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as testing constraints) for developing solutions in media arts productions.
  • MA.PR.5.6c6
    Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.6a6
    Analyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • MA.PR.6.6b6
    Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.6a6
    Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.RE.7.6b6
    Identify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

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