Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Visual Arts 5-8

Strand: Making (VA-M2)

Overall Expectations:

The learner demonstrates an understanding of and a facility with visual arts media, tools, and processes.

Specific Expectations:

Demonstrate facility with a variety of techniques for using art media
Integrate knowledge of different art media to create multimedia or mixed-media images and/or objects

Overall Expectations:

The learner develops original artworks, integrating ideas and art elements, principles, and media.

Specific Expectations:

Use design strategies to visualize artmaking solutions and plan related processes (e.g., drawing storyboards, planning diagrams, creating preparatory images or objects, manipulating digital images)

Strand: Connecting (VA-C3)

Overall Expectations:

The learner demonstrates an understanding of the roles, purposes, and meanings of the visual arts in the lives of individuals and in communities.

Specific Expectations:

Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple roles and purposes of art and design in society (e.g., personal fulfillment, social commentary, religious expression, commercial persuasion, status)
Demonstrate an understanding of ways in which visual arts reflect, influence, and shape issues and events, as well as traditions, values, beliefs, and identities of individuals and groups

Overall Expectations:

The learner analyzes and interprets art experiences.

Specific Expectations:

Analyze how art elements are related, organized, and used to communicate meaning

Overall Expectations:

The learner constructs meaning and applies new understandings from art experiences.

Specific Expectations:

Recognize and respect that individuals and groups may have different preferences, ideas, interpretations, opinions, and evaluations about art
Identify ways that art contributes to personal, social, cultural, and artistic identity