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Missouri K–6 media arts standards

Missouri writes its own media arts standards. They are published as Missouri Learning Standards for Fine Arts (2019), adopted 2019 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Framework
Missouri Learning Standards for Fine Arts (2019)
Adopted
2019
Source last checked
July 25, 2026
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126 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • MA.K.1A.aK
    Discover and share ideas for media artworks using play and experimentati on.
  • MA.K.2A.aK
    With guidance, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.
  • MA.K.3A.aK
    Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.
  • MA.K.3A.bK
    Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.
  • MA.K.4A.aK
    With guidance, combine arts forms and media content, such as dance and video, to form media artworks.
  • MA.K.5A.aK
    Identify and demonstrate basic skills, such as handling tools, making choices, and cooperating in creating media artworks.
  • MA.K.5A.bK
    Identify and demonstrate creative skills, such as performing, within media arts productions.
  • MA.K.5A.cK
    Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.
  • MA.K.6A.aK
    With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks
  • MA.K.6A.bK
    With guidance, identify and share reactions to the presentation of media artworks.
  • MA.K.7A.aK
    Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.K.7A.bK
    Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.K.8A.aK
    With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.
  • MA.K.9A.aK
    Share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks
  • MA.K.10A.aK
    Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.
  • MA.K.10A.bK
    Share memorable experiences of media artworks.
  • MA.K.11A.aK
    With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.
  • MA.K.11A.bK
    With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments
  • MA.1.1A.a1
    Express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.
  • MA.1.2A.a1
    With guidance, use identified ideas to form plans and models for media arts productions.
  • MA.1.3A.a1
    Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, identifying basic principles, such as pattern and repetition.
  • MA.1.3A.b1
    Practice and identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation, in order to refine and finish media artworks.
  • MA.1.4A.a1
    Combine varied academic, arts, and media content in media artworks, such as an illustrated story,
  • MA.1.5A.a1
    Describe and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles, such as technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media arts productions.
  • MA.1.5A.b1
    Describe and demonstrate basic creative skills within media arts productions, such as varying techniques.
  • MA.1.5A.c1
    Experiment with and share different ways to use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.
  • MA.1.6A.a1
    With guidance, discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks
  • MA.1.6A.b1
    With guidance, discuss the experience of the presentation of media artworks.
  • MA.1.7A.a1
    Identify components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.1.7A.b1
    With guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • MA.1.8A.a1
    With guidance, identify the meanings of a variety of media artworks.
  • MA.1.9A.a1
    Identify the effective parts of and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.
  • MA.1.10A.a1
    Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.1.10A.b1
    Share meaningful experiences of media artworks.
  • MA.1.11A.a1
    Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life, such as popular media, and connections with family and friends.
  • MA.1.11A.b1
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.2.1A.a2
    Discover multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.
  • MA.2.2A.a2
    Choose ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.
  • MA.2.3A.a2
    Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles, such as positioning and attention.
  • MA.2.3A.b2
    Test and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.
  • MA.2.4A.a2
    Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.
  • MA.2.5A.a2
    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
  • MA.2.5A.b2
    Demonstrate use of experimentatio n skills, such as playful practice, and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.2.5A.c2
    Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks.
  • MA.2.6A.a2
    Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.
  • MA.2.6A.b2
    Identify and describe the experience and share results of presenting media artworks.
  • MA.2.7A.a2
    Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.
  • MA.2.7A.b2
    Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences
  • MA.2.8A.a2
    Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks, considering their context.
  • MA.2.9A.a2
    Discuss the effectiveness of and improvement s for media artworks, considering their context.
  • MA.2.10A.a2
    Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
  • MA.2.10A.b2
    Discuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.
  • MA.2.11A.a2
    Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life, such as media messages and media environments.
  • MA.2.11A.b2
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.3.1A.a3
    Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.
  • MA.3.2A.a3
    Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.
  • MA.3.3A.a3
    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.3.3A.b3
    Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.
  • MA.3.4A.a3
    Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unifi.ed media artworks, such as animation, music, and dance
  • MA.3.5A.a3
    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.
  • MA.3.5A.b3
    Exhibit basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.3.5A.c3
    Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques while constructing media artworks
  • MA.3.6A.a3
    Identify and describe the presentation conditions, and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
  • MA.3.6A.b3
    Identify and describe the experience, and share results of and improvements for presenting media artworks
  • MA.3.7A.a3
    Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.3.7A.b3
    Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.3.8A.a3
    Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context
  • MA.3.9A.a3
    Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks, considering possible improvement s and context.
  • MA.3.10A.a3
    Use personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.
  • MA.3.10A.b3
    Identify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or culture, such as popular media.
  • MA.3.11A.a3
    Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and can influence values and online behavior.
  • MA.3.11A.b3
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness
  • MA.4.1A.a4
    Conceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of creative methods, such as brainstorming and modeling.
  • MA.4.2A.a4
    Discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.
  • MA.4.3A.a4
    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.4.3A.b4
    Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.
  • MA.4.4A.a4
    Demonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks, such as narrative, dance, and media.
  • MA.4.5A.a4
    Enact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, and collaboration in media arts productions.
  • MA.4.5A.b4
    Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.4.5A.c4
    Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media artworks
  • MA.4.6A.a4
    Explain the presentation conditions, and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
  • MA.4.6A.b4
    Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.4.7A.a4
    Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.4.7A.b4
    Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.4.8A.a4
    Determine and explain reactions and interpretation s to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context.
  • MA.4.9A.a4
    Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.
  • MA.4.10A.a4
    Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks
  • MA.4.10A.b4
    Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.
  • MA.4.11A.a4
    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.4.11A.b4
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.
  • MA.5.1A.a5
    Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others.
  • MA.5.2A.a5
    Develop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.
  • MA.5.3A.a5
    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.5.3A.b5
    Determine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.
  • MA.5.4A.a5
    Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms, such as a media broadcast.
  • MA.5.5A.a5
    Enact various roles to practice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, production, and collaboration in media arts productions
  • MA.5.5A.b5
    Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.5.5A.c5
    Examine how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.
  • MA.5.6A.a5
    Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • MA.5.6A.b5
    Compare results of and improvements for presenting media artworks
  • MA.5.7A.a5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.5.7A.b5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.5.8A.a5
    Determine and compare personal and group interpretation s of a variety of media artworks, considering their intention and context.
  • MA.5.9A.a5
    Determine and apply criteria for evaluating media artworks and production processes, considering context, and practicing constructive feedback.
  • MA.5.10A.a5
    Access and use internal and external resources to create media artworks, such as interests, knowledge, and experiences.
  • MA.5.10A.b5
    Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events
  • MA.5.11A.a5
    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.5.11A.b5
    Examine, discuss and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and media literacy.
  • MA.6.1A.a6
    Formulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes, such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming
  • MA.6.2A.a6
    Organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
  • MA.6.3A.a6
    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.6.3A.b6
    Appraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.
  • MA.6.4A.a6
    Validate how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork, such as media, narratives, and performance.
  • MA.6.5A.a6
    Develop a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks, such as invention, formal technique, production, selfinitiative, and problemsolving
  • MA.6.5A.b6
    Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • MA.6.5A.c6
    Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.
  • MA.6.6A.a6
    Analyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • MA.6.6A.b6
    Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • MA.6.7A.a6
    Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • MA.6.7A.b6
    Identify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • MA.6.8A.a6
    Analyze the intent of a variety of media artworks, using given criteria.
  • MA.6.9A.a6
    Determine and apply specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback. Develop and apply criteria to evaluate v
  • MA.6.10A.a6
    Access, evaluate, and use internal and external resources to create media artworks, such as knowledge, experiences, interests, and research.
  • MA.6.10A.b6
    Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events
  • MA.6.11A.a6
    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.6.11A.b6
    Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy.

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