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Curricular Competency Experience, document and share creative works in a variety of ways Arts Education 1 Communicating and documenting
Keyword: document Elaboration: activities that help students reflect on their learning (e.g., through drawing, painting, journaling, taking pictures, making video clips or audio-recordings, constructing new works, compiling a portfolio)
Keyword: share Elaboration: includes any form of presentation as outlined in the Connecting, Creating, Presenting, and Responding in Arts Education resource
Curricular Competency Describe and respond to works of art Arts Education 1 Communicating and documenting
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Curricular Competency Express feelings, ideas, stories, observations, and experiences through the arts Arts Education 1 Communicating and documenting
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Curricular Competency Interpret symbols and how they can be used to express meaning through the arts Arts Education 1 Communicating and documenting
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Curricular Competency Reflect on creative processes and make connections to other experiences Arts Education 1 Reasoning and reflecting
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Develop processes and technical skills in a variety of art forms to nurture motivation, development, and imagination

Arts Education 1 Reasoning and reflecting
Keyword: variety of art forms Elaboration: mediums of creative or artistic expression, such as painting, sculpture, plays, improvisations, dances, songs, and performances in both/either solo and/or ensemble contexts. 
Curricular Competency Observe and share how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques Arts Education 1 Reasoning and reflecting
Keyword: artists Elaboration: people who create works in any of the arts disciplines (e.g., dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists); also includes the students themselves
Curricular Competency Explore artistic expressions of themselves and community through creative processes Arts Education 1 Exploring and creating
Keyword: creative processes Elaboration: the means by which an artistic work (in dance, drama, music, or visual arts) is made; includes but is not limited to exploration, selection, combination, refinement, and reflection
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Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play

Arts Education 1 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. 
Curricular Competency Explore elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques of the arts Arts Education 1 Exploring and creating
Keyword: elements Elaboration: characteristics of dance, drama, music, and visual arts
Big Ideas The visual arts use a unique sensory language for creating and communicating. Visual Arts 9 No CCG
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Big Ideas Art experiences can build community and nurture relationships with others. Visual Arts 9 No CCG
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Big Ideas The visual arts provide opportunities to gain insight into perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, places, and cultures. Visual Arts 9 No CCG
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Big Ideas Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through visual arts experiences. Visual Arts 9 No CCG
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Content the ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism Visual Arts 9 No CCG
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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