Vermont K–6 media arts standards

Use personal experiences and choices in making media artworks.

Share memorable experiences of media artworks.

With guidance, share ideas in relating media artworks and everyday life, such as daily activities.

With guidance, interact safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments.

Discover and share ideas for media artworks using play and experimentation

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

Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.

Make changes to the content, form, or presentation of media artworks and share results.

With guidance, combine arts forms and media content, such as dance and video, to form media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate basic skills, such as handling tools, making choices, and cooperating in creating media artworks.

Identify and demonstrate creative skills, such as performing, within media arts productions.

Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.

With guidance, identify and share roles and the situation in presenting media artworks.

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

Recognize and share components and messages in media artworks.

Recognize and share how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Share appealing qualities and possible changes in media artworks.

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

Share meaningful experiences of media artworks.

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.

Express and share ideas for media artworks through sketching and modeling.

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

Create, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, identifying basic principles, such as pattern and repetition.

Practice and identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation, in order to refine and finish media artworks.

Combine varied academic, arts, and media content in media artworks, such as an illustrated story,

Describe and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles, such as technical steps, planning, and collaborating in media arts productions.

Describe and demonstrate basic creative skills within media arts productions, such as varying techniques.

Experiment with and share different ways to use tools and techniques to construct media artworks.

With guidance, discuss presentation conditions and perform a task in presenting media artworks.

With guidance, discuss the experience of the presentation of media artworks.

Identify components and messages in media artworks.

With guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

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

Identify the effective parts of and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.

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

Discuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.

Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life, such as media messages and media environments.

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.

Construct and 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 varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.

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.

Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice, and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks.

Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the experience and share results of presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.

Identify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.

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 and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.

Identify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or culture, such as 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.

Construct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of principles, such as movement and force.

Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

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

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.

Exhibit basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.

Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques while constructing media artworks.

Identify and describe the presentation conditions, and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Identify and describe the experience, and share results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.

Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

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

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

Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.

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.

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, such as brainstorming and modeling.

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

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.

Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

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.

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.

Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media artworks.

Explain the presentation conditions, and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

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

Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Determine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.

Create media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms, such as a media broadcast.

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.

Practice fundamental creative and innovative abilities, such as expanding conventions, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Examine how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.

Compare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.

Compare results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

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

Identify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

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 internal and external resources to create media artworks, such as knowledge, experiences, interests, and research.

Explain and show how media artworks form new meanings, situations, and cultural experiences, such as historical events.

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.

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.

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

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.

Appraise how elements and components can be altered for intentional effects and audience, and refine media artworks to reflect purpose and audience.

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, technical, and soft skills through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks, such as invention, formal technique, production, selfinitiative, and problem-solving.

Develop a variety of creative and adaptive innovation abilities, such as testing constraints, in developing solutions within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate adaptability using tools and techniques in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks.

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

Analyze results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

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

Identify, describe, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

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.