Elementary Visual School Arts

series of books developed in conjunction with

Paintbox Press, school and museum

programming that links kids with creative

professionals in their community and

kidsthinkdesign.org, a website that promotes

design thinking and provides a showcase for

kids original projects.” kidsthinkdesign:A Kids

Design Collaborative Project:

Concepts

(students need to

know)

Skills

(students need to be

able to do)

Bloom’s

Taxonomy

Levels

Collaboration

The design process

Art is all around us in our
daily lives

Individual roles and
collaborative skills
to create art

Analyze the relationship between

arts and daily life in product

design, print, and digital media.

Thinking like a designer

Interpret visual images from

media sources and the

immediate environment

Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Evaluating

Creating

Essential Questions Corresponding Big Ideas

How is collaboration used in product
design, fashion design, any design
process?

Explain the design process. How is the
design process in art like that of other
systems you have learned about?

How does art affect our daily lives?

Explain the balance between the
individual roles and collaborative skills
needed to create a new product.

Collaboration in the Design Process

The Design Process

The need for innovation and

entrepreneurship

The need to be able to interpret visual

images from media sources and the

immediate environment