• Identify Hazards and Safe Practices in the Workplace
• Maintains clean and safe work area and classroom
  
• Examine careers in art-related Fields
• Understand the range of possibilities within the career field, determine where their skills and abilities fit within that range
  
• Cultivate attributes essential for working in the art: attention to detail, stamina, and self- discipline
• Respond to the work of a living artist
  
• Observe an exhibition and report on it orally and/or in writing
• Provide examples of ways to alter a work schedule to allow for more job sharing among two or more employees
  
• Work collaboratively in leadership roles and as members of a team
• Identify rubrics with criteria for assessment of individual art works
  
• Participate in a panel discussion on a topic related to the arts
• Plan a two-week activity that requires tasks to be divided among students or coworkers, including determining priorities and following timelines
  
• Critique final work in class setting

COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

• Locate the basic components of a computer system and state their uses
• Navigate the Internet through search engines
• Use the local network to communicate and send files
  
• Organize files and folders
• Take the proper steps to make an inoperative printer work
  
• Evaluate why a school computer, ipod, ipad, or other digital device is not working

ILLUSTRATION

• Create a series of drawings/paintings that demonstrate competency in a wide range of media
  
• Execute descriptive, accurate drawings/painitngs based on observation
• Identify and use drawing tools skillfully
  
• Draw the human head proportionately

DIGITAL ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

• Use appropriate terminology - camera parts, card readers, apeture, etc.
  
• Show proper camera and lighting set-up
• Modify photograph through photo editing software

DESIGN - GRAPHIC,

• Demonstrate the use of the elements and priniciples of art
• Compare how ideas are communicated through the use of the elements and principles of art in diverse artwork
  
• Apply mathematical terminology to design, proportion, scale, perspective
• Recognize a problem and design steps to solve the problem
  
• Evaluate a variety of options suggested, select an option, explain the reason for the selection, and provide the strategies for implementation
• Give and accept constructive criticism in a group project
  
• Evaluate and discuss what makes a website effective
• Brainstorm ideas to create a personal website
  
• Choose portfolio artwork, links, artist statements, etc. to use in personal website
• Design a website using appropriate technology and computer applications
  
• Present website in a class critique
• Create a slide show on the VAM Website

LOGO

• Analyze existing logo designs
  
• Brainstorm, apply and evaluate logo ideas through thumbnail sketches
• Create logo using appropriate technology and computer applications

ADVERTISING and PACKAGING

• View and discuss documentary about advertising
• Employ electronic media to communicate visual ideas and promotional/advertising campaigns
  
• Create packaging mock-ups
• Compare and contrast raster and vector images

COMICS, ANIMATION,  AND VIDEO

• Use Related Terminology
• Create a Video or Animation storyboard for a short video or animation
  
• Produce a Video or an Animation using a logical sequence of shots
• Evaluate the footage/transitions/Audio/Text and problem solve as needed
  
• Employ Scientific Theory and Critical Thinking Skills throughout the editing process
• Demonstrate key framing and use of a timeline
  
• Develop a visual presentation using visual aids to explain how something operates or a “how to”.

ARCHITECTURE

• Design a floor plan/layout for a home with an art studio (graphics, music, architecture or illlustration studio)
• Demonstarte the use of graph paper and its grid
  
• Use the computer to redraw the plan view in a 3D computer program
• Select appropriate colors, flooring, etc.to finish designing the house

ETHICS AND COPYRIGHT LAWS

• Discuss copyright laws and how the apply to art, photography and music
• Explain royalty-free and fair use regulations
  
• Show behaviors that comply with social, legal, and ethical requirements of the arts

INDEPENDENT

• Assemble a body of original work that demonstrates competence in the professional practices of a specific career
• Create original works that demonstrate that they are adventurous, courageous, curious, imaginative, independent, and inventive
  
• Document activities with photographs, sketchbooks, tapes, videos, or written journals
• Display diligence and perseverance in the face of unpleasant tasks
  
• Understand how to manage time and materials efficiently