The visual arts enrich students with activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and design to architecture and folk arts. Students use a wide variety of tools, techniques, and processes while exploring developmentally appropriate interdisciplinary experiences through art instruction.
Students learn to coordinate their hands and minds in exploration of the visual world.
They learn to make choices that enhance communication of their ideas. Moving from kindergarten through grade 6, students develop skills of observation, and they learn to examine objects and events of their own lives. While developing their ability to describe, interpret evaluate, and respond to work in the visual arts, students begin to understand the meaning and impact of the visual world around them. There are six standards which present the educational goals of the student. Students should be able to use acquired knowledge through art instruction to communicate ideas.