Create
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will be expected to create, independently or collaboratively, a variety of artworks.
1.1 create art for a variety of reasons and recognize that there are many kinds of visual arts
1.2 create art works based on memory, mood, feelings, imagination, and fantasy including responses to music and literature
GCO 2: Students will be expected to explore skills, processes and materials.
2.1 explore the elements (colour, shape, line, value, space, form, and texture) and the principles of design with emphasis on pattern and repetition in the visual environment
2.2 explore basic art skills, techniques, and vocabulary through a wide range of materials and available technologies
2.3 using a variety of materials, visually communicate stories, ideas, and experiences
Specific Expectations
K-2.1.1 create art for a variety of reasons and recognize that there are many kinds of visual arts
K-2.1.2 create art works based on memory, mood, feelings, imagination, and fantasy including responses to music and literature
K-2.2.1 explore the elements (colour, shape, line, value, space, form, and texture) and the principles of design with emphasis on pattern and repetition in the visual environment (Refer to “Elements of Art & Design: Mapped”, page 29)
K-2.2.2 explore basic art skills, techniques, and vocabulary through a wide range of materials and available technologies
K-2.2.3 using a variety of materials, visually communicate stories, ideas, and experiences
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Facing TV Violence: Rewriting the Script
- Healthy Food Web
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- TV Stereotypes
Connect
Overall Expectations
GCO 3: Students will be expected to develop critical awareness of and value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture. Students will begin to understand that visual art is a record of human experiences and expressions.
3.1 identify visual communication in daily life and its effects on people
3.2 explore artworks from a variety of historical and cultural contexts
3.3 describe how visual arts are used in school and at home
Specific Expectations
K-2.3.1 identify visual communication in daily life and its effects on people
K-2.3.2 explore artworks from a variety of historical and cultural contexts
K-2.3.3 describe how visual arts are used in school and at home
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Adversmarts: Introduction to Food Advertising Online
- Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
- Can You Spot the Ad?
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Looking at Food Advertising
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Representing Ourselves Online
- TV Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
Interactive Resources
Communicate
Overall Expectations
GCO 4: Students will be expected to reflect on and respond to their own and others’ art works
4.1 look at and respond to art in a variety of ways
4.2 provide reasons for preferences in art works
4.3 choose and present work from their portfolio
4.4 use descriptive language to talk about their own work and that of their peers
Specific Expectations
K-2.4.1 look at and respond to art in a variety of ways
K-2.4.2 provide reasons for preferences in art works
K-2.4.3 choose and present work from their portfolio
K-2.4.4 use descriptive language to talk about their own work and that of their peers
K-2.4.5 explain the problem-solving (how and why) that occurred during the art-making process
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons