| Curricular Competency |
Explore materials, environments, tools, and techniques by combining and arranging elements, processes, and principles |
Arts Education 9 |
Exploring and creating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Create artistic works both collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play |
Arts Education 9 |
Exploring and creating |
| Keyword: purposeful play |
Elaboration: 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 |
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| Big Ideas |
Experiencing art is a means to develop empathy for others’ perspectives and experiences. |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: art |
Elaboration: includes but is not limited to the four disciplines of dance, drama, music, and visual arts |
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| Big Ideas |
Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating. |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: communicating |
Elaboration: art itself is a form of communication |
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| Big Ideas |
Artistic expressions differ across time and place. |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and community. |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or presenting in a safe learning environment |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: personal and collective responsibility |
Elaboration: ensuring the physical and emotional safety of self and others when engaging in the arts; being considerate of sensitive content, facilities, and materials |
| Keyword: presenting |
Elaboration: includes any form of presentation or sharing as outlined in the Connecting, Creating, Presenting, and Responding in Arts Education resource |
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| Content |
a variety of national and international works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: works of art |
Elaboration: the results of creative processes in disciplines such as dance, drama, music, and visual arts |
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| Content |
traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Aboriginal arts |
Elaboration: dances, songs, stories, and objects created by Aboriginal peoples for use in daily life or to serve a purpose inspired by ceremonies as part of cultural tradition |
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| Content |
symbolism and metaphor to explore ideas and perspective |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: symbolism |
Elaboration: use of objects, words, or actions to represent abstract ideas; includes but is not limited to colours, images, movements, and sounds (e.g., identity can be represented by abstraction in a self-portrait, melodies, or animal forms in Aboriginal hoop dancing) |
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| Content |
image development strategies |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: image development strategies |
Elaboration: processes that transform ideas and experiences into visual images (e.g., elaboration, repetition, and simplification |
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| Content |
notation in music and dance to represent sounds, ideas, movement, elements, and actions |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: notation |
Elaboration: any written, visual, or kinetic form of representing music compositions; for example, use of non-traditional (e.g., guitar tablature) and traditional notation can be extended to represent sound; in dance, this can include written formal and informal systems of symbols, shapes, and lines that represent body position and movement; in drama this can include diagrams indicating stage directions |
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| Content |
a variety of dramatic forms |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: dramatic forms |
Elaboration: a medium for the expression of dramatic meaning (e.g., improvisation, tableau, role-play, mime, readers theatre, story theatre); may involve the integration of a variety of media and a combination of the arts |
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| Content |
choreographic devices |
Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: choreographic devices |
Elaboration: ways of developing movement (e.g., change level, dynamics, time, size, repetition) |
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| Content |
processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, strategies, and techniques to support creative works
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Arts Education 6 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: includes both manual and digital technologies (e.g., electronic media, production elements, information technology, sound equipment and recording technologies, etc.); in visual arts, any visual image-making technology (e.g., paintbrush, scissors, pencil, stamp) and includes the improvisational use of miscellaneous items.
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| Keyword: strategies |
Elaboration: for example, in drama, strategies refer to the techniques and approaches teachers or students use to explore and create a drama work (e.g., playbuilding, improvisation, tableau, soundscape, voice collage, discussions and debates, teacher in role, writing in and out of role, reflection activities). In music, strategies could refer to the collaboration of performing in an ensemble. |
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