North Dakota K–6 media arts standards

With guidance and support, use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.

With guidance and support, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life in a safe and responsible manner.

With guidance and support, explore ideas for media artworks using play and experimentation.

With guidance and support, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.

With guidance and support, form, capture, and make changes to the content media for expression and meaning in media arts productions for presentation.

With guidance and support, combine varied art forms and other content, to form media artworks.

With guidance and support, identify and demonstrate basic skills to share how media arts creation tools work to produce media arts presentations.

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

With guidance and support, recognize and share messages in media artworks.

With guidance and support, identify a variety of media artworks.

With guidance and support, identify and share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks.

With guidance and support, use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.

With guidance and support, discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life, such as popular media, and connections with family and friends.

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

With guidance and support, express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.

With guidance and support, use identified ideas to form plans and models for media arts productions.

With guidance and support, create, capture, assemble, and make changes in media arts content for media arts productions.

With guidance and support, combine varied art forms and media content, to form media artworks, such as an illustrated story.

With guidance and support, describe, experiment, demonstrate and share various artistic skills and roles, such as technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media arts productions.

With guidance and support, discuss the presentation of media artworks and identify reactions.

With guidance and support, identify components and messages in media artworks.

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

With guidance and support, identify the effective parts of and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.

Create media artworks using personal experiences and discuss 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.

Discover multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.

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

Assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles, such as positioning and attention.

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

Practice combining a variety of art and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.

Use experimentation skills, tools, and various production roles in creating media arts presentations.

Describe the experience of presenting media artworks.

Describe the components and messages in media artworks.

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 and external resources to create media artworks.

Demonstrate how media artworks influence popular media.

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

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

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

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

Demonstrate how the use of different elements alters media artworks.

Integrate varied art forms, production roles, and media content into media artworks.

Exhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, and organizational roles.

Exhibit a variety of basic technical, creative skills and production roles to create new content in media arts presentations.

Discuss presentation conditions and ways to improve media artworks presentations.

Describe how messages are created by components in media artworks and how they affect audience experiences.

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context.

Identify basic criteria to evaluate media artworks, considering possible improvements and context.

Examine and use personal experience and external resources to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences in both physical and virtual spaces.

Demonstrate how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life and culture.

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

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

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

Structure, arrange and refine various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions.

Demonstrate how a variety of forms and content can be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.

Practice roles in foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, and collaboration to solve problems and create media arts productions.

Explain the presentation conditions and share results of improvements for presenting media artworks.

Explain how various forms, methods, and styles influence the message of a media artwork and how they affect audience experiences.

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.

Access and use personal experiences and external resources to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and cultural experiences in both physical and virtual spaces.

Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, cultural, social, and community life.

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

Envision original ideas and innovations for media artworks using personal experiences and/or the work of others, keeping in mind the legalities of copyright and fair use.

Develop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.

Determine how elements, components, and intentional effects in a media artwork can be altered in order to communicate clearly.

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

Enact various roles to practice fundamental ability in artistic design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, production, and collaboration to solve problems and create media arts productions.

Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and improvements in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks and how they affect audience experiences.

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.

Access, evaluate, and use personal experiences and external resources to create media artworks.

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences in both physical and virtual spaces.

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

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

Formulate variations of goals and solutions for media artworks by practicing chosen creative processes, such as sketching, improvising and brainstorming keeping in mind the legalities of copyright and fair use.

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

Experiment and refine 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.

Validate how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork, such as media, narratives, and performance.

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

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

Analyze results and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks and how they affect audience experiences.

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.