California K–6 media arts standards

Use personal experiences and interests in making media artworks.

Share memorable experiences of media artworks.

With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.

With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools, environments, and rules.

Discover and share ideas for media artworks using play and/or experimentation.

Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.

Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.

With guidance, combine arts forms and media content, such as dance and video, to form media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate basic skills, such as handling tools, making choices, and cooperating, in creating media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate creative skills, such as performing, within media arts productions.

With guidance, discuss the audience and share roles in presenting media artworks.

Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.

Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks.

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

Share meaningful experiences of media artworks.

Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life, such as popular media and connections with family and friends.

Interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering rules and fairness.

Express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.

With guidance, identify and use ideas to form plans and/or models for media arts productions.

Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, identifying basic aesthetic principles, such as pattern and repetition.

Practice and identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation, in order to refine and complete media artworks.

Combine varied academic, arts, and media content in media artworks, such as an illustrated story

Describe and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles, such as technical steps, tool use, planning, and collaborating, in media arts productions.

Describe and demonstrate basic creative skills, such as varying techniques, within media arts productions.

With guidance, discuss presentation conditions and audience, and perform a task in presenting media artworks.

Identify components and messages in media artworks.

With guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

With guidance, identify the meanings of a variety of media artworks and their context.

Identify the effective components and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.

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

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

Discuss how media artworks and ideas, such as media messages and media environments, relate to everyday life and culture.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.

Explore multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.

Choose ideas to create plans and/ or models for media arts productions.

Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic aesthetic principles, such as positioning and attention.

Test and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.

Enact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration, in media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.

Identify and describe presentation conditions and audience and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.

Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks, considering their context.

Discuss the effectiveness of components and possible improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

Use personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.

Identify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/ or culture, such as popular media.

Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life and culture and can influence values and online behavior.

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

Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.

Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and/or models to prepare for media arts productions.

Construct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of aesthetic principles, such as movement and force.

Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content, such as animation, music, and dance, into unified media artworks.

Exhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, and organizational roles, such as making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and group planning, in media arts productions.

Exhibit basic creative skills, such as standard use of tools, to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.

Identify and describe the presentation conditions, audience, and results of presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.

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

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context.

Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks and production processes, considering possible improvements and their context.

Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.

Explain, verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas, such as fantasy and reality and technology use, relate to everyday life and culture.

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.

Conceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of generative methods, such as brainstorming and modeling.

Discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and/or models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.

Structure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated aesthetic principles, such as balance and contrast.

Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

Demonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.

Enact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, and collaboration, in media arts productions.

Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking and novel use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Explain the presentation conditions, audience response, and improvements for presenting.

Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.

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

Determine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context

Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.

Access and use internal and external resources, such as interests, knowledge, and experiences, to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as news and events.

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.

Examine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and media literacy.

Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and the work of others.

Develop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and/or proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.

Create content and combine components to convey expression, purpose, and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated aesthetic principles, such as emphasis and exaggeration.

Determine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.

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

Enact various roles to practice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique and collaboration, in media arts productions.

Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions and experimental use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, associated processes, results, and improvements for presentation of media artworks.

Identify, describe, and differentiate how messages and meaning are created by components in media artworks.

Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Determine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context

Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.

Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources, such as knowledge, interests, and research, to create media artworks.

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events.

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.

Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering copyright, ethics, media literacy and social media.

Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others.

Organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and/or production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.

Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of associated aesthetic principles, such as point of view and perspective.

Appraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.

Demonstrate and rationalize how integrating multiple contents and forms, such as media, narratives and performance, can support a central idea in a media artwork.

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.

Develop a variety of creative and innovative abilities, such as testing constraints in tool usage, in developing solutions within and through media arts productions.

Analyze various presentation formats, defined processes, and results to improve the presentation of media artworks.

Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.

Identify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Analyze the intent of a variety of media artworks, using given criteria.

Determine and apply specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.