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Tennessee K–6 media arts standards

Tennessee writes its own media arts standards. They are published as Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts, adopted 2018 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Media Arts (MA), from the single Media Arts K-12 table.

Framework
Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts
Adopted
2018
Source last checked
August 8, 2026
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126 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

  • K.MA.Cn1.AK
    Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.
  • K.MA.Cn1.BK
    Share memorable and meaningful experiences of media artworks.
  • K.MA.Cn2.AK
    With guidance, relate media artworks to everyday life experiences.
  • K.MA.Cn2.BK
    With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments.
  • K.MA.Cr1.AK
    Discover and share ideas for media artworks using exploration and experimentation.
  • K.MA.Cr2.AK
    With guidance, use ideas to form plans or models for media arts productions.
  • K.MA.Cr3.AK
    Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.
  • K.MA.Cr3.BK
    Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.
  • K.MA.P1.AK
    With guidance, combine multiple art forms and content in media artworks.
  • K.MA.P2.AK
    Identify and demonstrate basic skills in creating media artworks.
  • K.MA.P2.BK
    Identify and demonstrate creative skills within media arts productions.
  • K.MA.P2.CK
    Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.
  • K.MA.P3.AK
    With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks.
  • K.MA.P3.BK
    With guidance, identify and share reactions to the presentation of media artworks.
  • K.MA.R1.AK
    Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.
  • K.MA.R1.BK
    Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • K.MA.R2.AK
    With guidance, share observations of media artworks.
  • K.MA.R3.AK
    Share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks.
  • 1.MA.Cn1.A1
    Use personal experiences, interests, and models in creating media artworks.
  • 1.MA.Cn1.B1
    Discuss experiences of media artworks through meaning and purpose.
  • 1.MA.Cn2.A1
    With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life.
  • 1.MA.Cn2.B1
    Explore appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • 1.MA.Cr1.A1
    Express and share ideas for media artworks.
  • 1.MA.Cr2.A1
    With guidance, use selected ideas to form plans and models for media arts productions.
  • 1.MA.Cr3.A1
    Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, while identifying basic principles.
  • 1.MA.Cr3.B1
    Identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation when revising media artworks.
  • 1.MA.P1.A1
    With guidance, combine multiple academic, arts, and media content in media artworks.
  • 1.MA.P2.A1
    Describe and demonstrate artistic skills and roles in media arts productions.
  • 1.MA.P2.B1
    Describe and demonstrate basic creative skills within media arts productions.
  • 1.MA.P2.C1
    Experiment with and share different ways to use tools and techniques.
  • 1.MA.P3.A1
    With guidance, discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks.
  • 1.MA.P3.B1
    With guidance, discuss the experience of the presentation of media artworks.
  • 1.MA.R1.A1
    Identify components and messages in media artworks.
  • 1.MA.R1.B1
    With guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • 1.MA.R2.A1
    With guidance, identify possible meanings of media artworks.
  • 1.MA.R3.A1
    Identify the effective parts of and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.
  • 2.MA.Cn1.A2
    Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
  • 2.MA.Cn1.B2
    Identify how media artworks shape meanings, situations, and/or culture.
  • 2.MA.Cn2.A2
    Discuss and describe media artworks in everyday life found in popular media and connections with family and friends.
  • 2.MA.Cn2.B2
    Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • 2.MA.Cr1.A2
    Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to media arts.
  • 2.MA.Cr2.A2
    Choose ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.
  • 2.MA.Cr3.A2
    Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles.
  • 2.MA.Cr3.B2
    Test and describe expressive effects when altering and revising media artworks.
  • 2.MA.P1.A2
    Practice combining multiple academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks.
  • 2.MA.P2.A2
    Enact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration in media arts productions.
  • 2.MA.P2.B2
    Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.
  • 2.MA.P2.C2
    Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools.
  • 2.MA.P3.A2
    Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.
  • 2.MA.P3.B2
    Identify and describe the experience of the presentation of media artworks, and share feedback of presenting media artworks.
  • 2.MA.R1.A2
    Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.
  • 2.MA.R1.B2
    Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
  • 2.MA.R2.A2
    Describe how purpose and meaning of media artworks are shaped by context.
  • 2.MA.R3.A2
    Discuss the effectiveness of and improvements for media artworks, considering their context.
  • 3.MA.Cn1.A3
    Use personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.
  • 3.MA.Cn1.B3
    Identify and show how popular media shapes meanings, situations, and/or culture.
  • 3.MA.Cn2.A3
    Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.
  • 3.MA.Cn2.B3
    Examine and inter act appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering safety, rules, and fairness.
  • 3.MA.Cr1.A3
    Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods, and materials.
  • 3.MA.Cr2.A3
    Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.
  • 3.MA.Cr3.A3
    Construct and arrange various content into unified media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of principles.
  • 3.MA.Cr3.B3
    Analyze how the emphasis of elements can alter effect and purpose when revising media artworks.
  • 3.MA.P1.A3
    Practice combining multiple academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media artworks.
  • 3.MA.P2.A3
    Exhibit developing ability in a variety of design, artistic, technical, and organizational roles, such as making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and group planning in media arts productions.
  • 3.MA.P2.B3
    Exhibit basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.
  • 3.MA.P2.C3
    Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques.
  • 3.MA.P3.A3
    Identify and describe the presentation conditions, and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
  • 3.MA.P3.B3
    Identify and describe the presentation conditions and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks
  • 3.MA.R1.A3
    Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • 3.MA.R1.B3
    Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • 3.MA.R2.A3
    Determine how purpose and meaning of media artworks are shaped by context.
  • 3.MA.R3.A3
    Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks, considering possible improvements and context.
  • 4.MA.Cn1.A4
    Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.
  • 4.MA.Cn1.B4
    Examine and show how emerging presentation formats shape meanings, situations, and/or culture.
  • 4.MA.Cn2.A4
    Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and how they can influence values.
  • 4.MA.Cn2.B4
    Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering ethics, rules, and fairness.
  • 4.MA.Cr1.A4
    Brainstorm goals and original approaches for media artworks using a variety of methods.
  • 4.MA.Cr2.A4
    Discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals of the presentation.
  • 4.MA.Cr3.A4
    Structure and arrange various content, components, and sets of associated principles to convey purpose and meaning.
  • 4.MA.Cr3.B4
    Demonstrate emphasizing elements for a purpose when revising media artworks.
  • 4.MA.P1.A4
    Demonstrate how multiple academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks.
  • 4.MA.P2.A4
    Enact identified roles to practice foundational design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, an d collaboration in media arts productions.
  • 4.MA.P2.B4
    Practice foundational innovative abilities in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • 4.MA.P2.C4
    Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways.
  • 4.MA.P3.A4
    Explain the presentation conditions, and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.
  • 4.MA.P3.B4
    Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • 4.MA.R1.A4
    Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.
  • 4.MA.R1.B4
    Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • 4.MA.R2.A4
    Explain how reactions to and interpretations of media artworks are influenced by purpose and context.
  • 4.MA.R3.A4
    Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.
  • 5.MA.Cn1.A5
    Access and use internal and external resources, such as interests, knowledge, and experiences, to create media artworks.
  • 5.MA.Cn1.B5
    Examine and show how news and cultural events shape meanings, situations, and cultural experiences.
  • 5.MA.Cn2.A5
    Explain verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life.
  • 5.MA.Cn2.B5
    Examine, discuss, and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering ethics, rules, and media literacy.
  • 5.MA.Cr1.A5
    Envision and combine original ideas to generate an innovative plan for media arts.
  • 5.MA.Cr2.A5
    Develop present and test ideas plans models and proposals for media arts productions considering the artistic goals and audience
  • 5.MA.Cr3.A5
    Create content and combine components and sets of associated principles to convey expression, purpose, and meaning.
  • 5.MA.Cr3.B5
    Determine and revise how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and purpose.
  • 5.MA.P1.A5
    Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms.
  • 5.MA.P2.A5
    Enact various roles to practice fundamental ability in design, artistic, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, production, and collaboration in media arts productions.
  • 5.MA.P2.B5
    Practice foundational creative and innovative abilities in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
  • 5.MA.P2.C5
    Examine how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways.
  • 5.MA.P3.A5
    Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
  • 5.MA.P3.B5
    Compare results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • 5.MA.R1.A5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • 5.MA.R1.B5
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • 5.MA.R2.A5
    Determine and compare personal and group interpretations of media artworks, considering intention and context.
  • 5.MA.R3.A5
    Determine and apply criteria for evaluating media artworks and production processes considering context and practicing constructive feedback
  • 6.MA.Cn1.A6
    Access evaluate and use internal and external resources to create media artworks such as knowledge experiences interests and research
  • 6.MA.Cn1.B6
    Explain and show the influence of media artworks in forming new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences about historical events.
  • 6.MA.Cn2.A6
    Research and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social, and community life through the exploration of commercial and informational purposes, history, and ethics.
  • 6.MA.Cn2.B6
    Analyze and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, while considering fair use and copyright, ethics, and media literacy.
  • 6.MA.Cr1.A6
    Formulate a variety of ways to achieve a goal for media arts.
  • 6.MA.Cr2.A6
    Organize, propose, and evaluate artistic ideas, plans, and prototypes for media arts productions, considering purposeful intent.
  • 6.MA.Cr3.A6
    Experiment with multiple approaches to create content using a range of associated principles and components to communicate determined purpose and meaning.
  • 6.MA.Cr3.B6
    Evaluate and revise elements and components to reflect purpose and audience.
  • 6.MA.P1.A6
    Explain how integrating multiple contents and forms can support a central idea in a media artwork.
  • 6.MA.P2.A6
    Develop a variety of design, artistic, technical, and soft skills by performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks, such as invention, formal technique, production, self-initiative, and problem-solving.
  • 6.MA.P2.B6
    Develop a variety of creative and adaptive innovation abilities in developing solutions within and through media arts productions.
  • 6.MA.P2.C6
    Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways.
  • 6.MA.P3.A6
    Analyze various presentation formats and fulfill various tasks and defined processes in the presentation and or distribution of media artworks
  • 6.MA.P3.B6
    Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.
  • 6.MA.R1.A6
    Identify, describe, and analyze how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
  • 6.MA.R1.B6
    Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
  • 6.MA.R2.A6
    Analyze the intent of media artworks using given criteria.
  • 6.MA.R3.A6
    Determine and apply specific criteria to evaluate various media artworks and production processes, considering context and practicing constructive feedback.

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