Visual Arts Education and 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills
(View Complete Item Description)Virginia’s visual arts instructional programs reinforce and support Virginia’s 21st Century Workplace Readiness Skills.
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All resources in VDOE Visual Arts
Visual Arts SOL: Standard 9 At-a-Glance
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this document is to highlight standard nine of the 2020 Visual Arts Standards of Learning. This standard in all grade levels relates connecting music content, skills, and processes to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace. Teachers and curriculum specialists can use this document to plan a sequence of instruction that prepares students for career, college, and workplace connections in visual arts education.
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Visual Arts SOL: Alignment to the 5 Cs
(View Complete Item Description)The Visual Arts Standards of Learning (SOL) are intentionally and directly aligned with the skills outlined in the Profile of a Virginia Graduate. The goal statements in the attached document are taken directly from the 2020 Visual Arts SOL document and re-organized to demonstrate alignment to the “5 Cs”.
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Examples of Careers in Music
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides a list of music-related career examples.
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Examples of Visual Arts-related Careers
(View Complete Item Description)This document provides examples of careers in and related to visual arts.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Students as Art Gallery Curators
(View Complete Item Description)Students as Art Gallery Curators. Students can collect images of art work on sites approved by the teacher, which adhere to copyright and acceptable use guidelines. Images can be collected based on a theme identified by the student, or by the teacher based on lesson/unit objectives. Students can upload images and identifying information to a digital gallery for viewing by classmates, parents, and other community members or partners.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Virtual Art Discussions
(View Complete Item Description)Virtual Art Discussions. Students can respond to a style or collection of artwork using discussion tools in the school’s Learning Management System (LMS).
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Creative Exchange
(View Complete Item Description)K-2 Visual Arts Digital Learning Integration. The teacher can facilitate a project where students create drawings of landscapes from observation, then a final project based on landscapes of the area where students live using any media or techniques of the teacher’s choosing.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: K-2 Media Exploration Station Rotation
(View Complete Item Description)Local Art Collaboration. Facilitated by the teacher, students connect with a high school art class to collaborate within a cloud-based platform on a digital work of art. Each student has the opportunity to contribute to the work of art.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Algorithms Unplugged
(View Complete Item Description)Algorithms Unplugged. The teacher can facilitate a paper weaving project where students create and follow a pattern while exploring and understanding the connections between coding, computing, and fiber-arts.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Ask the Artist
(View Complete Item Description)Ask the Artist. Facilitated by the teacher, students can collaborate on developing an online form to be shared alongside works of art being displayed.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Collaborative Art Process Documentation
(View Complete Item Description)Collaborative Art Process Documentation. The teacher can facilitate a collaborative class project, or group project, where students work together over time to make a product like a mural, sculpture, public art, or installation.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Digital Mood Board
(View Complete Item Description)Digital Mood Board. Students can create a digital “mood board” of ideas and inspirations for personal works of art based on a common theme or idea.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 6-8 Share Art Knowledge With Short Video Commercials
(View Complete Item Description)Share Art Knowledge with Short Video Commercials. Student artists can use short video “commercials” to create and share messages about topics of interest related to course content, art advocacy, to highlight student artwork, or advertise student art exhibitions.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 10-12 Student Design Themed Virtual Art Exhibition
(View Complete Item Description)Student-Designed Themed Virtual Art Exhibition. Students will design a virtual exhibition based on a theme of concept and develop criteria for curating works to include in the exhibition.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 9-12 Video Conference With Professional Artists
(View Complete Item Description)Video Conference With Professional Artists. Use video conferencing tools to engage with and interview professional artists about their creative processes and career pathway.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Creative Thinking with Games
(View Complete Item Description)Exercise Creative Thinking with Digital Art Games. Interactive visual arts games like Tate Paint can allow students to explore digital tools for artmaking with a series of creative prompts to start with such as weather, food, natural world, and experiments.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Global Art Collaboration
(View Complete Item Description)Global Art Collaboration. Facilitated by the teacher, students connect with classrooms in other parts of the world to collaborate on a digital work of art in a cloud-based digital art platform.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Sculptures Come to Life
(View Complete Item Description)Sculptures Come to Life. The teacher can facilitate a sculpture project where students make an object using paper mache, modeling clay or cardboard.
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Digital Learning Integration Strategy: 3-5 Virtual Field Trips
(View Complete Item Description)Virtual Field Trips. The teacher will facilitate a virtual field trip with a museum or using other reputable interactive online art or culture experience.
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