Maryland K–6 media arts standards

Discover multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising. Express and share ideas for media artworks through guided exploration.

Collaborate with others in a whole class setting, with teacher guidance, to create a visual representation of formulated ideas.

With guidance, formulate ideas into plans or models for media arts productions.

Collaborate with others in a whole class setting, with teacher guidance, to create a to-do list for production.

In guided practice, make, capture, and form media arts content, freely for expression and meaning, in media arts productions.

Freely and in guided practice, attempt expressive effects and make changes to the content, form, or presentation.

Collaborate with others to capture the same content in multiple ways.

Collaborate with others to make judgments and decisions on media production to act on creative ideas.

With guidance, combine different forms and content to form media artworks.

Work creatively with others, supported by the teacher, to curate multiple types of media (video, sound, still pictures) to create one media product.

Identify, describe, and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles.

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

Demonstrate and explore how media arts creation tools work.

Interact effectively with others to manage the media production plan to include skills and individual roles.

Act on creative ideas during media arts production.

Explore technology tools and techniques to produce creative works.

With guidance, present media artworks.

With guidance, share reactions to the presentation of media artworks.

With teacher support, present media product(s).

With teacher support, students reflect on the presentation experience.

With guidance, explore components and messages in a variety of media artworks.

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

With teacher support, explore how components of media connect to messaging and audience experiences.

With guidance, discuss reactions to media artworks.

Analyze media from the media arts industry (film, TV, graphic design, animation, fine art, etc.) to discuss audience reactions.

Analyze their media product(s) to discuss audience reactions.

With guidance, examine and share qualities of media artworks.

With teacher support and set criteria, examine and communicate qualities of media products.

Use personal experience in making media artworks.

With guidance, share experiences of media artworks.

With teacher support, create media products that utilize personal and shared experiences.

With guidance, relate media artworks to everyday life.

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

Describe the relationships of media to other arts subjects in school

With teacher support, compare media to everyday life (i.e. pop culture).

With teacher support, work with tools in different environments effectively and safely. (i.e. hardware and software)

Compare and contrast cultural purposes for creating by examining media arts from different times and places.

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

Collaborate with others in a small group setting to create a visual representation of formulated ideas.

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

Collaborate with others in a small group setting to create a task list to prepare for production.

Construct, arrange, and combine various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying defined sets of principles.

In refining and completing media artworks, practice, analyze, and demonstrate how emphasizing elements alters effect, purpose and clarity.

Collaborate with others in a small group setting to decide what content is needed and how it will be captured.

Collaborate with others in a small group setting to make judgments and decisions on media production to act on creative ideas with a refined purpose.

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

Work creatively with others, in a small group setting, to curate multiple types of media (video, sound, still pictures) with academic content to create one media product.

Exhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, soft skills (ex. tool use, collaboration, equipment use), and organizational roles.

Exhibit and practice basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.

Exhibit, demonstrate, and examine standard use of tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

Interact effectively with others to manage the media production plan to apply artistic/technical skills and define individual roles.

Act on creative ideas during media arts production to create new content.

Explore and interact with a variety of tools and techniques to construct media content.

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

Identify, describe and compare the experience; share results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Make judgments and decisions on presentation considering setting and potential distribution of media product(s).

Analyze and self-evaluate presentation and suggest improvements.

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

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

Implement critical thinking strategies to summarize how messages and audience experiences are created through media.

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks.

Analyze media from the media arts industry to discuss purpose and meaning.

Analyze their media product(s) to discuss purpose and meaning.

Identify and apply basic criteria to evaluate media artworks.

Collaborate with others to create general criteria to evaluate media products.

Use personal and external resources to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meaning, situations, and/or culture.

Create media products that utilize personal and external resources.

Analyze media for meaning and cultural context.

Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life.

Examine and interact safely with media arts tools and environments.

Describe the relationships of media arts to theatre, dance, music, the visual arts, and other disciplines.

Compare and contrast media and everyday life.

Understand and apply ethics and safety rules when using equipment and content.

Analyze and infer how media is used to inform or change beliefs, values, and/or behaviors of an individual or society.

Formulate variations of ideas, goals, and solutions for media artworks by practicing focused creative processes.

Work independently to create a visual representation of formulated ideas.

Act on creative ideas to generate artistic goals.

Predict potential obstacles and generate possible solutions.

Organize, design, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, models, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions.

Refine brainstormed ideas into a production plan.

Experiment with multiple approaches to produce content and components for determined purpose and meaning in media arts productions.

Evaluate, improve, and refine media artworks by intentionally emphasizing particular expressive elements to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, or place.

Improve production plan to include decisions about content and production processes.

Make judgments and decisions to refine the media production plan to set a purpose and act on creative ideas.

Integrate multiple contents and forms into unified media arts productions that convey consistent themes or ideas.

Curate and analyze multiple types of media (video, sound, still pictures) with academic content to produce one media product that has a consistent theme.

Develop, design and exhibit a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.

Develop, demonstrate, and exhibit a variety of creative and adaptive innovation abilities.

Demonstrate adaptability in using tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

Be self-directed learners to define artistic/technical skill sets and roles for media production plan.

Develop and act on a variety of creative skills to produce new media.

Apply and adapt use of tools and techniques to construct media content.

Analyze and design various presentation formats for the tasks and processes of the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Manage the presentation and potential distribution of the media product(s).

Analyze and critique presentation. Develop a list of potential improvements for future presentations.

Describe, compare, and analyze message and meaning that are created by components in media artworks.

Describe, compare, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Analyze the messages and audience experiences presented through a variety of media components.

Analyze the intent and meaning of a variety of media artworks.

Analyze media from the media arts industry to discuss intent and meaning.

Analyze their media product(s) to discuss intent and meaning.

Develop and apply criteria to evaluate various media artworks.

Collaborate with others to create criteria to evaluate media products.

Evaluate and use personal, cultural, and/or external resources to create media artworks.

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

Make judgments and decisions on which resources (personal, cultural, and/or external) will be used to create media products.

Communicate clearly how decisions change elements of media (meanings, situations, and cultural context).

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life.

Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments.

Describe the relationships of media arts to theatre, dance, music, the visual arts, and other disciplines.

Research and synthesize how media relates to everyday life.

Apply technology safely and effectively considering media literacy.

Analyze how response to media arts is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was created, the available resources, and cultural uses.