| Curricular Competency |
Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play
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Arts Education 6 |
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. Learning can be performed collaboratively in both solo and ensemble contexts.
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| Curricular Competency |
Intentionally select, apply, combine, and arrange artistic elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments in art making |
Arts Education 6 |
Exploring and creating |
| Keyword: elements |
Elaboration: characteristics of dance, drama, music, and visual arts |
| Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: refers to both digital and non-digital implements and the processes that artists employ in the creation of art, in traditional and experimental ways |
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| Big Ideas |
Artists often challenge the status quo and open us to new perspectives and experiences. |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Artists |
Elaboration: people who create works in any of the arts disciplines (e.g., dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists); also applies to the students themselves |
| Keyword: challenge the status quo |
Elaboration: includes questioning established ideas, exploring historical perspectives and social change, and preserving enduring values. |
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| Big Ideas |
Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating. |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: communicating |
Elaboration: art itself is a form of communication |
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| Big Ideas |
Individual and collective expression can be achieved through the arts. |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: arts |
Elaboration: includes but is not limited to the four disciplines of dance, drama, music, and visual arts |
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| Big Ideas |
Creative growth requires patience, readiness to take risks, and willingness to try new approaches. |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or presenting in a safe learning environment |
Arts Education 8 |
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 |
ethical considerations and cultural appropriation related to the arts |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: ethical considerations |
Elaboration: such as inclusion, diversity, copyright, ownership |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of cultural motifs, themes, “voices,” images, knowledge, stories, songs, drama, etc. shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn |
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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 8 |
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 8 |
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 8 |
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., love can be symbolized by the colour red or the cradling of one’s arms) |
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| Content |
image development strategies |
Arts Education 8 |
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, dance and drama to represent sounds, ideas, movement, elements, and actions |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
drama forms and drama conventions |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: drama 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 |
| Keyword: drama conventions |
Elaboration: established ways of working in drama that explore meaning; drama techniques |
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| Content |
choreographic devices |
Arts Education 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: choreographic devices |
Elaboration: ways of developing movement (e.g., change level, dynamics, time, size, repetition) |
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