	Georgia ART QCC’s—5th Grade
5.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Produces artworks and graphic designs that use selected subject matter, including symbols and ideas, to communicate a message.
5.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Plans, organizes, and creates artworks using: form, color expressing emotion, linear perspective, proportion, contrast. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
5.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, fiber arts, mixed media, and digital images. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
5.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates a separate work of art that imitates nature (Realism), is concerned with design and composition (Structuralism/Formalism), expresses a feeling or emotion (Emotionalism/ Expressionism).
5.5	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
5.6	Topic: Connections / Standard: Researches historical events and uses these as sources of ideas for artworks.
5.7	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes color relationships (e.g., complementary, analogous, and monochromatic).
5.8	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Define characteristics of form as open or closed.
5.9	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Examines how artists use linear perspective (one- and two-point) to achieve depth in artworks.
5.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Analyzes proportion in artworks as the relationship of one part to another or in the whole.
5.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Illustrates how elements of art and principles of design are used in combination to create contrast in artwork.
5.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies specific media and techniques used to produce selected artworks.

	Georgia ART QCC’s—5th Grade
5.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes how artists use selected subject matter, including symbols and ideas, to communicate a message.
5.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Critiques artworks in sequence of: description, analysis of design or a composition, interpretation of meaning, and judgment based on evidence/clues observed in artworks.
5.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Develops, judges, and communicates personal decisions about artwork.
5.16	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Supports a personal position on the "big" questions about art (e.g., Why do people create art? Why are certain objects considered art and others are not considered art? How do we justify judgments about what is art? Must art be beautiful? Does art have to be functional? If it is in an art museum, does that make it art?).
5.17	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Interprets artworks from selected periods of art based on historical facts, theories, and other information compiled by historians. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
5.18	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Describes the similarities and differences between two works of art of the same style but produced by two different artists, such as Picasso and Braque.
5.19	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Explains how particular technological advances change the way an artist works, such as the invention of steel and the architect; the computer and digital artist, architect, and graphic designer; the camera and the photographer.

	Georgia QCC’s—4th Grade
4.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks using the following properties of colors (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).
4.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks using the following color theories (e.g., complementary and neutral).
4.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artwork portraying an object, subject, or theme from different points of view (e.g., close-up, below, and above).
4.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks using direct observation, lines (descriptive, directional, and expressive), shapes and space (positive and negative), spatial concepts (overlapping, placement, size, color, and detail), balance (symmetrical and asymmetrical), and contrast.
4.5	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Emphasizes specific elements of art and principles of design and selects materials and techniques appropriate to creating an artwork based on own idea and self-direction.
4.6	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Emphasizes specific elements of art and principles of design and selects materials and techniques appropriate to creating an artwork based on own idea and self-direction.
4.7	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Uses available technology such as computer, camera, and video recorders, to create artwork.
4.8	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.
4.9	Topic: Connections / Standard: Researches and applies regional history sources as ideas for original works of art.
4.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies and discusses the properties of color (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).
4.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies and discusses color schemes (e.g., complementary and neutrals).
4.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Explains how artists use a variety of lines and color values within an artwork to achieve three-dimensional effects (dimensional line and shading techniques).
4.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Explains how space and shapes can be positive and negative in a composition.
4.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Compares spatial concepts that show depth in artworks (e.g., overlapping, placement (scale), color intensity, and detail [atmospheric perspective]).
4.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses an artist's purpose for using line, shape, and color to capture movement in artworks, such as gesture drawings, action painting, and mobiles.
4.16	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Develops criteria for sorting artworks into categories of landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, seascapes, and portraits.

	Georgia QCC’s—4th Grade (page 2)
4.17	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes how an artist creates a point of view in an artwork (e.g., close-up, below, and above).
4.18	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Develops and applies criteria for judging personal decisions about artworks.
4.19	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Examines selected artworks based on questions related to art theories: Does the intent of the artwork seem to be to imitate? (Realism). Is the artwork primarily concerned with design or composition? (Structuralism/Formalism). Is the work trying to express a feeling or emotion? (Expressionism/Emotionalism).
4.20	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Matches a description of a culture with an artwork representative of the same culture.
4.21	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Generates accurate statements about the functions (purposes) of particular artworks and the culture that produced them.
4.22	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Explains how art reflects the relationship between artists and their culture (e.g., geographic, political, religious, and economic).

	Georgia QCC’s—3rd Grade
3.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates sculptures by construction (additive method) and by modeling (subtractive method).
3.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Produces art in each of the following art areas: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and crafts
3.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artwork using implied texture in two-dimensional shapes and actual texture in three-dimensional forms.
3.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks using direct observation, intermediate colors, lines (descriptive, directional, expressive), space (foreground, middleground, background), value (tints and shades), balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical), and emphasis.
3.5	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Produces artworks in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, crafts, fiber arts, and mixed media.
3.6	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
3.7	Topic: Connections / Standard: Applies concepts and ideas from other disciplines and their topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.
3.8	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Describes intermediate colors as red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet.
3.9	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes value as the lightness and darkness of a color.
3.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Compares and explains descriptive, directional, and expressive lines in artworks.
3.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Explains how texture (implied and actual) is used in two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional forms.
3.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Points out division of space in artworks as foreground, middle ground, and background.
3.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes and compares symmetrical and asymmetrical balance in artworks.
3.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Describes how size, colors, lines, shapes, and textures are organized in artwork to create a focus or center of interest (emphasis).
3.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Distinguishes between original artwork and reproductions.

	Georgia QCC’s—3rd Grade (page 2)
3.16	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses the purposes and functions of art in today's world.
3.17	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Examines other individuals' reasons for preferences in artworks.
3.18	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Associates artworks of a particular style with the culture from which the work was produced. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
3.19	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Explains selected works of art as characteristic of the historical period in which each was produced.
3.20	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Places selected art reproductions in chronological order based on information (clues) within the artworks.
3.21	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Gives examples of how technology has influenced the creation of art.

	Georgia QCC’s—2nd Grade
2.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Mixes white with colors to create tints and black with colors to create shades (values).
2.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
2.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks (drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media arts) emphasizing one or more of the arts elements, e.g., warm and cool colors, line, shape, form, texture, value, and the principles of movement, rhythm, repetition (pattern), and spatial techniques (overlapping, size placement of shapes).
2.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks based on close observation of familiar objects (representational artworks).
2.5	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.
2.6	Topic: Connections / Standard: Discusses how culture and environment provide inspiration for creating artworks.
2.7	Topic: Connections / Standard: Applies concepts and ideas from another discipline and its topics as sources of ideas for own artworks. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
2.8	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Describes red, yellow, and orange as warm colors and green, blue, and violet as cool colors.
2.9	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes tints and shades in artworks.
2.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Differentiates horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
2.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Explains how space surrounds two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional forms.
2.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Demonstrates how artists use spatial techniques such as overlapping, size, and placement of shapes.
2.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies symmetrical (formal) and radial balance in artworks and in nature.
2.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses how artists create movement and rhythm in selected artworks.
2.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Examines two artworks of the same subject identifying similarities and differences.

	Georgia QCC’s—2nd Grade (page 2)
2.16	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses expressive qualities of artworks and gives personal interpretation of each.
2.17	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses and compares own definition of art with that of others.
2.18	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Discusses why people make art.
2.19	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Makes statements about the functions (purposes) of particular artworks and the culture that produced them.
2.20	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Explains the use of symbols and cultural icons in selected artworks, such as flags, jewelry, uniforms, products, and company logos.

	Georgia QCC’s—1st Grade
1.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Mixes primary colors to create secondary colors.
1.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks (e.g., drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media art ) emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture) and the principle of repetition (pattern).
1.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
1.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Uses imagination and immediate environment, including family, home, and surroundings, as sources for ideas.
1.5	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
1.6	Topic: Connections / Standard: Applies and compares the concepts of pattern from other disciplines, such as pattern in music, dance, mathematics, and poetry.
1.7	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes and differentiates between primary and secondary colors.
1.8	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies lines as outlines or edges of shapes and forms.
1.9	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Differentiates between geometric shapes and organic shapes.
1.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies shapes as flat and forms as not flat.
1.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes positive and negative space.
1.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Differentiates textures by sight and by touch.
1.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes how artists overlap shapes to create a sense of depth.
1.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Identifies and describes patterns as repetition of colors, lines, shapes, or textures.
1.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Distinguishes between natural objects and objects made by people.
1.16	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Uses art terms (elements of art) to describe differences in two artworks of similar subjects.

	Georgia QCC’s—1st Grade (page 2)
1.17	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Describes feelings in response to looking at artworks.
1.18	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Talks about how art is different from other things.
1.19	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Examines and judges artworks based on clues within the artworks.
1.20	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Examines common subjects and themes in selected artworks from different cultures, such as the world of play, foods, costumes, celebrations, communities, and nature.
1.21	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Recognizes ways that artists are involved in communities (e.g., architects, painters, photographers, window designers, educators, and docents).
1.22	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Recognizes and associates selected artists with their individual works.

	Georgia QCC’s—Kindergarten
K.1	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates art with different subjects and themes and from personal experiences. (See Introduction: Matrix.)
K.2	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Creates artworks - drawings, painting, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media - emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture, and pattern).
K.3	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.
K.4	Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing / Standard: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
K.5	Topic: Connections / Standard: Applies concepts and ideas from another discipline and its topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.
K.6	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Names and identifies colors, such as red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, black, brown, white, and gray (pigment colors).
K.7	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Points out and describes lines, as thick, thin, straight, and broken.
K.8	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes and names shapes, such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and organic (free-form).
K.9	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes form as not flat.
K.10	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Explores and names texture, such as smooth and rough.
K.11	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Recognizes colors, lines, shapes, textures, and patterns in artworks and in nature.
K.12	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Describes and compares subjects and themes of artworks.
K.13	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Uses art terms with emphasis on the elements of art to talk about own artworks and art reproductions.
K.14	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Expresses preference for one of two or three art reproductions.
K.15	Topic: Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding / Standard: Offers ideas about what art is and who are artists?

	Georgia QCC’s—Kindergarten (page 2)
K.16	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Views and talks about Western and non-Western artworks of significant artists that have recognizable subjects and themes.
K.17	Topic: Historical and Cultural Context / Standard: Points out clues in selected artworks that determine time and place.