Kentucky K–6 media arts standards

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

With guidance, explore ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.

With guidance, capture media arts content for expression and meaning.

With guidance, make changes to the media arts content and share results.

With guidance, combine arts disciplines and media content to form a media artwork.

Identify and demonstrate basic skills and creative skills within media arts productions.

Discover how media arts creation tools work.

With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks.

With guidance, identify and share reactions to the presentation of 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 and choices 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 and environments.

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

Use identified ideas to form plans and/or models for media arts productions.

With limited guidance, create, capture and assemble content for media arts productions, identifying Foundational Principles.

With limited guidance, make changes to the content, form or presentation and identify the effects of those changes in order to improve and/or complete media artworks.

With limited guidance, combine academic, arts and media content in media artworks.

Describe and demonstrate various artistic skills and basic creative skills in media arts productions.

Experiment with and share different ways to use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

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

With guidance, discuss the experience of the presentation of media artworks.

Identify components and messages in media artworks.

Identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

With limited guidance, identify the meanings of a variety of media artworks.

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

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

Share meaningful experiences of media artworks.

With guidance, discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life.

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

Explore multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.

Select ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.

Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions by applying basic Foundational Principles.

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

Practice combining academic, arts and media content into unified media artworks.

Demonstrate basic ability in various identified artistic, design, technical and soft skills in media arts productions.

Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks.

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

Identify and describe the experience and share results of 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 and improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

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 relate to everyday and cultural life.

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

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

Develop and share ideas, plans and models to prepare for media arts productions.

Construct and arrange various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of Foundational Principles.

Analyze how the emphasis of components alters the effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

Combine academic, arts and media forms and content into unified media artworks.

Develop ability in a variety of roles and exhibit basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions in media arts productions.

Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques while constructing media artworks.

Identify and describe the presentation conditions and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Identify and describe the experience and share results of and improvements for 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, considering possible improvements and context.

Use personal and external resources to create media artworks.

Identify and show how media artworks create meanings, situations and/or culture.

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

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

Conceive original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of creative methods.

Create, discuss and test ideas, plans and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.

Organize various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated Foundational Principles.

Demonstrate expressive effects in refining media artworks, emphasizing components for a purpose.

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

Enact identified roles and practice foundational skills and innovative thinking in addressing problems in media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media artworks.

Explain the presentation conditions and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Describe and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.

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.

Select and use personal and external resources to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks create meaning, situations and/or cultural experiences.

Explain through media artworks how ideas within the works relate to everyday and cultural life.

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

Generate original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others. Creative methods might include brainstorming and modeling.

Develop, present and test ideas, plans, models and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience. Presentations might include pitching ideas and plans to peer groups, teachers and/or community members to receive feedback.

Create content and combine components to convey expression, purpose, and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated Foundational Principles.

Evaluate how components can be intentionally altered using expressive effects to communicate meaning, and refine media artworks, emphasizing components for clarity and purpose.

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

Enact various roles to practice foundational skills with innovative and creative thinking in addressing problems in media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media artworks.

Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Compare results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

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

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

Determine and compare personal and group interpretations of a variety of media artworks, considering their intention and context.

Determine and apply criteria for evaluating media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback.

Integrate internal and external resources to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks create intended meanings, situations and cultural experiences.

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, considering ethics, rules and media literacy.

Investigate a variety of goals for media artworks using creative processes.

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

Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for a determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions, utilizing a range of Foundational Principles.

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

Interpret and discuss how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork.

Develop a variety of creative and adaptive innovation abilities through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.

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

Analyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

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

Analyze and describe 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.

Integrate and evaluate internal and external resources to create media artworks.

Explain how media artworks create new meanings, situations and cultural experiences.

Research how media artworks and ideas relate to personal life as well as social, community and cultural situations.

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