Course Description
Overview:
In this Year 3 Visual Arts course student projects and digital projects will challenge them to become knowledgeable, communicators, and risk takers. They will utilize and build on acquired technical and creative skills and apply them to contemporary medium in response to more complex questions.
Topics Covered:
Villainous cards (drawing); Fish Out of Water (ceramics); Grid drawing; and Digital photography
Formative Assessment:
Class work, homework, peer review, reflections written and/or oral, skill development
Summative Assessment:
Teacher and peer review, MYP projects
Areas of Interaction:
ATL’s: Knowledge acquisition, creative discovery, artistic skills and integrity,
Community & Service: Digital camera and software manipulation is art
Human Ingenuity: Visual principles are expressive
Environments: Art has common environments
Health & Social Education: Visual art has cultural impact
IB MYP Year 3 Aims and Objectives:
At the end of the Year 3, students should be able to:
• understand knowledge and the art form studied in relation to some aspects of societal, cultural, historical or personal contexts;
• demonstrate an informed opinion of the art form studied in the context of their own artwork;
• articulate an idea, theme or personal interpretation to a point of realization;
• develop skills and apply the techniques and processes involved in creating, performing and/or presenting art;
• give an informed description of the progress they have made so far and identify strategies to develop and improve their artistic processes;
• evaluate their work;
• consider feedback when identifying strategies to develop and improve;
• show commitment in developing their own artistic processes;
• support, encourage and work with their peers in a positive way;
• understand how the arts play a role in developing and expressing personal and cultural identities;
• appreciate how the arts innovate and communicate across time and culture;
• experience the process of making art in a variety of situations;
• become more effective learners, inquirers and thinkers.