Visual Arts Introduction

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Visual Arts Standards

The BPSS (ART) Visual Arts Standards course in Learnbps is Bismarck Public School District's current progress on prioritizing and deconstructing standards to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. The standards are designed to provide guidance so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students. Plus help students reflect on the knowledge and skills that they need for success.

K-8 Visual Arts

Artistic Processes

Identifier Explanation

VART-07.Pr.04

The Bismarck Public School District Standards-Based Progress Report displays grades at the concept level. Therefore Bismarck Public School District has modified the North Dakota DPI Identifiers to fit into our student information system PowerSchool for Standards-Based grading. Above is a BPS CSC Standards identifier showing the addition with smaller muted text to the the identifier with the placement of grade levels at different locations along with the components that BPS adds to the State code.

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ART-07.Pr.04

visual ART

The North Dakota Visual Arts Standards
The purpose of the standards is to provide a framework from which
educators, community members, and stakeholders of North Dakota
can support and implement the arts into the curriculum for
kindergarten through twelfth-grade students.
Grade Levels
kindergarten through twelfth-grade students.
Because there are 12 grades BPS adds a leading 0
Process
The anchor standards are clustered
around the Artistic Processes of:
  • Cr Visual Arts - Creating
  • Pr Visual Arts - Presenting
  • Re Visual Arts - Responding
  • Co Visual Arts - Connecting
Anchor Standard
Because there are 10 or more Anchor Standards
BPS adds a leading 0

click on the identifier components for more explanations

ART-07.PR.04 Compare and contrast how technologies have changed the way artwork is preserved, presented, and experienced.
Note: how the identifiers auto-link to the standards global glossaries.

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VA:Pr4.7

Visual Arts
The standards are Visual Arts.
Process with Anchor Standard
The Process and Anchor Standards were combined.
Grade Levels
kindergarten through twelfth-grade students.
The state follows the National Fine Arts standards
and have the grade level at the end

click on the identifier components for more explanations

Individual grade-specific standards can be identified by their grade, strand, and number, so that VA:Pr4.7, for example, VA stands for Visual Arts, Process Presenting Anchor Standard standard 4 for Grade 7.