Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through arts experiences.
The arts provide opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures.
Creative arts experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others.
Dance, drama, music, and visual arts each use their own unique sensory language for creating
and communicating.
and communicating.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
for each of the arts disciplines — dance, drama, music, and visual arts — the specific elements, principles, techniques, vocabulary, and symbols
the four discipline-specific curriculum documents include information and elaborations on these items
that can be used to create mood and convey ideas
the roles of performers and audiences in a variety of contexts
traditional and contemporary Aboriginal worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives communicated through artistic works
contributions of innovative artists from a variety of genres, communities, times, and places
personal and social responsibility associated with creating, performing, and responding in the arts
the ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and creating
Create artistic works both collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play
learning that uses real-life and/or imaginary situations to engage and challenge learners’ thinking. Through planned purposeful play, students express their natural curiosity while exploring the world around them. It also provides a means for high-level reasoning and problem solving in a variety of ways
Explore materials, environments, tools, and techniques by combining and arranging elements, processes, and principles
Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental contexts in relation to the arts
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through artistic experiences
Select and combine elements and principles of the arts to intentionally create a particular mood, effect, or meaning
Reasoning and reflecting
Describe, interpret, and evaluate how artists use tools, processes, technologies, materials, and environments to create and communicate ideas
Develop, refine, document, and critically appraise ideas, processes, and technical skills to improve the quality of works of art
Communicating and documenting
Adapt and apply learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences
Compose, interpret, and expand ideas using symbolism
use of an object, word, or action to represent an abstract idea; includes but is not limited to colours, images, movements, and sounds (e.g., love can be symbolized by the colour red or the cradling of one’s arms)
, imagery, and elements
Revise, refine, analyze, and document creative works and experiences to enhance presentation and/or performance in a variety of ways
Connecting and expanding
Reflect on works of art and creative processes to make connections to personal learning and experiences
Take creative risks to experience and express thoughts, emotions, ideas, and meaning
Demonstrate respect for themselves, others, and the audience
Collaborate through reciprocal relationships during creative processes
Create personally meaningful bodies of artistic works that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of social, cultural, environmental, and historical contexts
Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content