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New Jersey K–6 media arts standards

New Jersey writes its own media arts standards. They are published as New Jersey Student Learning Standards - Visual and Performing Arts, adopted 2020 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Framework
New Jersey Student Learning Standards - Visual and Performing Arts
Adopted
2020
Source last checked
July 26, 2026
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74 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • 1.2.2.Cn10aK-2

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

  • 1.2.2.Cn10bK-2

    Share and discuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.

  • 1.2.2.Cn11aK-2

    Discuss and demonstrate how media artworks, messages environments and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life, such as daily activities, popular media, connections with family and friends.

  • 1.2.2.Cn11bK-2

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

  • 1.2.2.Cr1aK-2

    Discover, share and express ideas for media artworks through experimentation, sketching and modeling.

  • 1.2.2.Cr1bK-2

    Brainstorm and improvise multiple ideas using a variety of tools, methods and materials.

  • 1.2.2.Cr1cK-2

    Explore form ideas for media art production with support.

  • 1.2.2.Cr1dK-2

    Connect and apply ideas for media art production.

  • 1.2.2.Cr1eK-2

    Choose ideas to create plans for media art production.

  • 1.2.2.Cr2aK-2

    Explore form ideas for media art production with support.

  • 1.2.2.Cr2bK-2

    Connect and apply ideas for media art production

  • 1.2.2.Cr2cK-2

    Choose ideas to create plans for media art production.

  • 1.2.2.Cr3aK-2

    Create and assemble content for media arts productions, identifying basic principles (e.g., pattern, positioning, attention, and repetition.)

  • 1.2.2.Cr3bK-2

    Identify and describe the effects of altering, refining and completing media artworks.

  • 1.2.2.Pr4aK-2

    With guidance and moving towards independence, combine art forms and media content into media artworks such as an illustrated story or narrated animation.

  • 1.2.2.Pr4bK-2

    Practice combining varied academic, arts and media content to form media artworks.

  • 1.2.2.Pr5aK-2

    Identify and enact basic skills such as handling tools, making choices, and soft skills for planning and creating media artworks.

  • 1.2.2.Pr5bK-2

    Identify, describe and demonstrate basic creative skills such as trial-and-error and playful practice, within media arts production.

  • 1.2.2.Pr5cK-2

    Discover, experiment with and demonstrate creative skills for media artworks.

  • 1.2.2.Pr6aK-2

    With guidance and moving towards independence, identify, share and discuss reactions to and experiences of the presentation of media artworks.

  • 1.2.2.Re7aK-2

    Identify, share and describe the components and messages in media artwork.

  • 1.2.2.Re7bK-2

    Identify, share and describe a variety of media artworks created from different experiences in response to global issues including climate change.

  • 1.2.2.Re8aK-2

    Share observations, identify the meanings, and determine the purposes of media artworks, considering personal and cultural context.

  • 1.2.2.Re9aK-2

    Share appealing qualities, identify the effective parts, and discuss improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

  • 1.2.5.Cn10a3-5

    Use, examine and access internal and external resources to create media artworks, such as interests, knowledge and experiences.

  • 1.2.5.Cn10b3-5

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

  • 1.2.5.Cn11a3-5

    Identify, explain, research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social and community life (e.g., exploring online behavior, fantasy and reality, commercial and information purposes, history, ethics).

  • 1.2.5.Cn11b3-5

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

  • 1.2.5.Cr1a3-5

    Generate ideas for media artwork, using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.

  • 1.2.5.Cr1b3-5

    Develop individual and collaborative artistic goals for media artwork using a variety of methods.

  • 1.2.5.Cr1c3-5

    Connect media artwork to personal experiences and the work of others

  • 1.2.5.Cr1d3-5

    Collaboratively form ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media artwork.

  • 1.2.5.Cr1e3-5

    Model ideas and plans in an effective direction.

  • 1.2.5.Cr1f3-5

    Brainstorm goals and plans for a media art audience.

  • 1.2.5.Cr2a3-5

    Collaboratively form ideas, plans and models to prepare for media artwork.

  • 1.2.5.Cr2b3-5

    Model ideas, plan in an effective direction.

  • 1.2.5.Cr2c3-5

    Brainstorm goals and plans for a media art audience.

  • 1.2.5.Cr3a3-5

    Construct and arrange various content into unified and expressive media arts productions.

  • 1.2.5.Cr3b3-5

    Describe and apply principles such as movement, balance, contrast, and emphasis.

  • 1.2.5.Cr3c3-5

    Explore how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, point of view, perspective, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.

  • 1.2.5.Pr4a3-5

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

  • 1.2.5.Pr4b3-5

    Demonstrate understanding of combining a variety of academic, arts and content with an emphasis on coordinating elements into a comprehensive media artwork.

  • 1.2.5.Pr4c3-5

    Create media artworks through integration of multiple contents and forms.

  • 1.2.5.Pr5a3-5

    Develop and enact a variety of roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, organizational, and soft skills in producing media artworks.

  • 1.2.5.Pr5b3-5

    Exhibit and develop critical and creative skills, such as inventing new content and expanding conventions, in addressing challenges within and through media arts productions.

  • 1.2.5.Pr5c3-5

    Examine how tools and design thinking techniques can be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.

  • 1.2.5.Pr6a3-5

    Identify, explain and compare various presentation forms fulfilling the processes in distributing media artwork.

  • 1.2.5.Pr6b3-5

    Identify and compare experiences and benefits of presenting media artworks.

  • 1.2.5.Re7a3-5

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

  • 1.2.5.Re7b3-5

    Identify, describe, explain and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks affect and manage audience experience when addressing global issues including climate change.

  • 1.2.5.Re8a3-5

    Determine, explain and compare personal and group reactions and interpretations of a variety of media artworks, considering their personal and cultural perception, intention and context

  • 1.2.5.Re9a3-5

    Develop and apply specific criteria to evaluate media art works and production processes with developed criteria, considering context and artistic goals.

  • 1.2.8.Cn10a6

    Access, evaluate and use internal and external resources to inform the creation of media artworks, such as cultural and societal knowledge, research and exemplary works.

  • 1.2.8.Cn10b6

    Explain and demonstrate how media artworks expand meaning and knowledge and create cultural experiences, such as local and global events.

  • 1.2.8.Cn11a6

    Access, evaluate and use internal and external resources and context to inform the creation of media artworks (e.g., cultural and societal knowledge, research, exemplary works)

  • 1.2.8.Cn11b6

    Explain and demonstrate how media artworks expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences (e.g., via local and global events considering fair use and copyright, ethics, media literacy).

  • 1.2.8.Cr1a6

    Generate a variety of ideas, goals and solutions for media artworks using creative processes such as sketching, brainstorming, improvising, and prototyping with increased proficiency, divergent thinking, and opportunity for student choice.

  • 1.2.8.Cr1b6

    Organize and design artistic ideas for media arts productions.

  • 1.2.8.Cr1c6

    Critique plans, prototypes and production processes considering purposeful and expressive intent.

  • 1.2.8.Cr2a6

    Organize and design artistic ideas for media arts productions

  • 1.2.8.Cr2b6

    Critique plans, prototypes and production processes considering purposeful and expressive intent.

  • 1.2.8.Cr3a6

    Experiment with and implement multiple approaches that integrate content and stylistic conventions.

  • 1.2.8.Cr3b6

    Communicate an intentional purpose and meaning utilizing varying point of view and perspective.

  • 1.2.8.Cr3c6

    Refine and modify artistic choices to reflect an understanding of purpose, narrative structures, composition, audience, and context.

  • 1.2.8.Pr4a6

    Experiment with and integrate multiple forms, approaches and content to coordinate, produce and implement media artworks that convey purpose and meaning (e.g., narratives, video games, interdisciplinary projects, multimedia theatre).

  • 1.2.8.Pr5a6

    Develop and demonstrate a variety of artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (e.g., self-initiative, problem solving, collaborative communication) through performing various roles in producing media artworks.

  • 1.2.8.Pr5b6

    Develop and demonstrate creativity and adaptability, through processes such as testing constraints and divergent solutions, within and through media arts productions.

  • 1.2.8.Pr5c6

    Develop and demonstrate creativity and adaptability in standard and experimental ways, to construct, achieve assigned purpose, and communicate intent in media artworks.

  • 1.2.8.Pr6a6

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

  • 1.2.8.Pr6b6

    Analyze benefits and impacts from presenting media artworks

  • 1.2.8.Re7a6

    Compare, contrast and analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components and style in media artworks.

  • 1.2.8.Re7b6

    Compare, contrast and analyze how various forms, methods and styles in media artworks affect and manage audience experience and create intention when addressing global issues including climate change.

  • 1.2.8.Re8a6

    Analyze the intent and meanings and context of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and detect bias, opinion, and stereotypes.

  • 1.2.8.Re9a6

    Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.

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