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.912.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: 912
Big Idea: Innovation, Technology, and the Future

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This cluster includes the following access points.

Independent

VA.912.F.1.In.a
Select and use techniques, structural elements of art, and principles of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
VA.912.F.1.In.b
Demonstrate the use of a variety of technology to produce, store, consume, or view art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
VA.912.F.1.In.c
Compare artists from a variety of historic periods, including elements of the lifestyles, and events taking place during that period.

Supported

VA.912.F.1.Su.a
Use teacher-selected techniques, structural elements of art, and organizational principles of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
VA.912.F.1.Su.b
Individually or collaboratively demonstrate the use of selected technology to produce, store, consume, or view art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
VA.912.F.1.Su.c
Identify similarities and differences in works of art produced during different historical periods.

Participatory

VA.912.F.1.Pa.a
Use a teacher-selected structural element of art or principle of design to create a variety of artworks in different or unusual ways.
VA.912.F.1.Pa.b
Use selected technology to access visual art as a citizen, consumer, or worker.
VA.912.F.1.Pa.c
Identify a variety of historically significant works of art.

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