Enduring Understanding 1: Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.

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Number: VA.1.F.1
Title: Creating, interpreting, and responding in the arts stimulate the imagination and encourage innovation and creative risk-taking.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Visual Art
Grade: 1
Big Idea: Innovation, Technology, and the Future

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Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

VA.1.F.1.In.a
Re-create familiar shapes and forms.
VA.1.F.1.In.b
Contribute to collaborative tasks related to visual art.

Supported

VA.1.F.1.Su.a
Match basic shapes.
VA.1.F.1.Su.b
Explore tasks related to visual art.

Participatory

VA.1.F.1.Pa.a
Explore basic shapes.
VA.1.F.1.Pa.b
Attend to tasks related to visual art.

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