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Grade one art includes experimenting with a variety of concepts and ideas in art and digital media and processes while using materials correctly and safely to convey personal interests. Students use accurate art vocabulary, terms, and procedures during the creative process to describe and talk about their work.General Notes
All instruction related to Visual Art benchmarks should be framed by the Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings. Non-Visual Art benchmarks listed in this course are also required and should be fully integrated in support of arts instruction.Special Note: This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
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Original Student Tutorials
Learn more about Pascua Florida Day and the explorer Ponce De Leon who gave Florida its name in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and environment in the waters of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 3 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and overall environment in the woodlands of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 1 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and environment along the coastline of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 1 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Identify and retell the main elements of a story in this interactive tutorial. Join Walter Wolf to find the characters, setting, and major events in his favorite story, The Three Little Pigs, and retell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Be a hero and partition circles and rectangles into four equal shares. Describe equal shares using the words "fourths" and "quarters" in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Recount the important details using story elements and determine the central message, lesson, or moral of the fable in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Help the heroes separate circles and rectangles into equal shares and describe the equal shares as "halves" or "half of" as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Problem-Solving Tasks
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to compose and decompose polygons to make rectangles. This is a challenging problem for first graders and it would be inappropriate to use it as an assessment.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to give students an opportunity to compose and decompose squares. This is a challenging problem for first graders and it would be inappropriate to use it as an assessment. However, if presented as a brainteaser it can be useful for giving the students practice in recognizing squares and stimulate interest as students compete to try to find the most squares.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Video/Audio/Animation
This video segment samples the diversity of feeding habits among some of the world's creatures. Different animals eat different things through different mechanisms.
Type: Video/Audio/Animation
Virtual Manipulatives
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows students to draw geometric shapes and then decompose and recompose them into other shapes, using slides, turns, and flips to cut and move pieces around.
Type: Virtual Manipulative