Nebraska K–6 media arts standards

Share imaginative ways that media arts can be used to communicate a narrative, experience, or idea (e.g., movie, podcast, digital art).

Determine the steps, vocabulary, and the resources necessary to create media arts.

Explore various editing tools on existing media to create media arts (e.g., capture, copy, paste).

Introduce understanding of, and respect for, the accepted procedures regarding the responsible care of media arts equipment and materials.

Introduce cooperation, negotiation, and communication in creating media arts (e.g., collaborative posters).

Practice manipulating media and context for personal expression in media arts productions.

Understand self and others as an audience with guided reflection. (e.g., who, what, when, where, why).

Share or distribute media arts in a safe and appropriate venue (e.g., school website, student information system).

Identify different elements that make up media arts and how they make us feel (e.g., background music, imaging, timing).

Discuss how media arts experiences can shift individual understanding.

Identify meaning in media arts.

Investigate media arts connections to school, community, and everyday life (e.g., websites, advertising).

Share and discuss the characteristics of digital citizenship (glossary) (e.g., copyright, plagiarism).

Explore use of media arts as a collaborative art form to communicate information, experiences, or ideas to others.

Identify the importance of media arts as a learning tool.

Generate ideas for stories, events, or experiences that can be the basis of content for media arts (e.g., brainstorming, role-playing, discussion).

Develop a process with timelines and roles using steps, vocabulary, and resources in creating media arts (e.g., storyboard).

Experiment with multiple strategies to combine and adapt media arts formats, ideas, and processes (e.g., editing).

Reinforce understanding of, and respect for, the accepted procedures regarding the responsible care of media arts equipment and materials.

Contribute to a collaborative project in an assigned role (e.g., leader, designer, actor, timekeeper, storyboard artist, cinematographer, director, sound editor, video editor).

Explore how media arts elements and context enhance overall effectiveness and expression (e.g., image, sound, light, movement, time, space).

Construct and adapt media arts in consideration of audience and the context of the work (e.g., public service announcements).

Share and/or distribute media arts through a specific and/or variety of contexts (e.g., physical, virtual channels, venues, spaces, mass audiences, participants).

Compare and contrast the elements of media arts that make it unique (e.g., background music, imaging, timing, message).

Justify personal and group interpretations and reactions to a variety of media arts.

Discuss components and criteria that convey meaning in media arts.

Examine media arts to demonstrate student interest and knowledge of self.

Demonstrate knowledge of digital citizenship (e.g., copyright, plagiarism, citations, validating resources).

Discuss and determine benefits and challenges of incorporating various ideas when creating or engaging with media arts.

Share the importance of media arts as a learning tool and explore potential careers.

Identify artistic challenges that exist in the process of creating media arts and discover ways to implement possible solutions.

Expand media arts vocabulary along with elements and principles of design in the creative process.

Utilize available tools, techniques, and conventions in the creation of media arts.

Demonstrate understanding of, and respect for, the accepted procedures regarding the responsible care of media arts equipment and materials.

Contribute, communicate, and edit in collaborative work, independent work, and/or or performance environment.

Combine components of media arts to improve overall quality (e.g., tone, mood, feeling, character).

Utilize audience impact and response in the revision of work and planning for later work.

Expand opportunities for others (e.g., audience, school, community) to actively engage in the media arts (e.g., social media, videos, online gallery).

Describe the qualities and relationships of the components in media arts as related to collective personal experiences.

Analyze multiple perspectives, key components, and relationships in media arts.

Interpret and evaluate possible meanings or points of view of media arts (e.g., intention, form, context).

Demonstrate use of media arts to address social, cultural, or societal issues (e.g., advertising, social media, public service announcements.

Demonstrate and describe the impact of digital citizenship (e.g., copyright, plagiarism, citations, validating resources).

Identify and incorporate personal or collective experiences, perspectives, and ideas of others through media arts.

Examine careers in media arts and lifelong learning opportunities.