Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Visual Arts 6

Creating and Presenting

Overall Expectations

GCO 1: Students will explore, challenge, develop, and express ideas, using the skills, language, techniques, and processes of the arts.

Specific Expectations

6.1.1 create imagery that demonstrates an understanding of the expressive qualities of the elements and principles of design

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Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community

Overall Expectations

GCO 3: Students will examine the relationship among the arts, societies, and environments.

Specific Expectations

6.3.1 investigate the relationship between the visual arts and other subjects

6.3.3 recognize that our response to art is strongly influenced by our experiences

6.3.5 consider the moral and ethical issues involved in reproducing work

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Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community

Overall Expectations

GCO 4: Students will demonstrate critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture

Specific Expectations

6.4.2 investigate how visual communication systems are a part of everyday life

6.4.3 use experiences from their personal, social, and physical environments as a basis for visual expression

6.4.4 understand the past events, the way people live, and the visual arts influence one another

6.4.5 demonstrate an awareness of how visual art is used in their school and community

6.4.6 investigate the roles of artists in their community and potential careers available to those trained in the visual arts

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Perceiving, Reflecting and Responding

Overall Expectations

GCO 6: Students will apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ expressive works.

Specific Expectations

6.6.2 analyse others’ artwork to form conclusions about formal properties, cultural contexts, and intent

6.6.3 use descriptive art language to analyse, interpret, and respond to their own and others’ work

6.6.4 examine artworks to determine how elements and principles of design were used

6.6.5 recognize the relationship between seeing, feeling, and thinking by analysing and interpreting their own and others’ work

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