Howard County Curriculum for Second Grade
Primary: My Art - All About Me
(Grades 1 - 2)
Children's artistic behaviors are developed through directed exploration of tools, techniques, the
formal qualities of art, and master exemplars. This fosters a sense of self that is encouraged within the
artist using memory, observation, imagination, or narrative. Through a variety of media experiences,
students are lead on a journey toward finding a place in their perception of the world.
Developmentally Appropriate Entry Level Skills*
These are required for successful participation in Primary Level: My Art, All About Me, and are
the Culminating Artistic Behaviors from Pre-K/K: Art as Discovery. The elementary art
student had the proficient ability to:
- Share personal experiences and ideas visually.
- Use basic art vocabulary to describe their work and the artwork of others.
- Describe and recognize master and cultural exemplars.
- Be aware of one’s self and the world around them.
- Use art as play.
* These skills may not be apparent with those students who have not had a Pre-K/K art experience.
Course Goal: for RESPONDING
Develop an ability to identify, describe, compare, and contrast artworks to develop a personal statement.
Objectives:
- Identify and describe characteristics of artworks and the environment (or the world around them).
- Compare and contrast artworks, objects and their environment.
- Recognize characteristics that are alike and different among objects, environments, and art works.
Course Goal: for EXPRESSING
Demonstrate an ability to communicate visually using a variety of tools, techniques, formal qualities of art, and schema.
Objectives:
- Use a variety of tools and techniques to apply the formal qualities of art.
- Develop and use personal schema in a series of art-making experiences.
- Describe and apply the formal qualities of art.
- Incorporate schema into a compositional format.
- Use strategies in making art that draw upon memory, observation, imagination, and narrative.
Art Discipline Objectives:
Applies art concepts to show ways...
Drawing — Use drawing techniques to express a complex idea from personal
experience.
Painting — Use painting as a vehicle to make pictures, and as a way to identify and
mix color.
Printmaking — Use printmaking processes to transfer personal symbols and
imaginative images from one surface to another.
Sculpture — Invent three-dimensional forms from personal experiences.
Crafts — can be aesthetic, functional, and personal.
Culminating Artistic Behaviors
When transitioning from the Primary Level to the Emerging Intermediate Level, the elementary art student works toward proficiency:
- Identify and utilize the formal qualities of art.
- Select and use tools appropriately.
- Discuss characteristics of artworks, including one's own, works from various cultures and the works of master artists.
- Apply a schema using different processes and a variety of media to tell a story.