Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to produce art works in a variety of traditional two- and three-dimensional forms, as well as multimedia art works, that communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings, using elements, principles, and techniques of visual arts as well as current media technologies
- Block Print (book)
- Art Before Breakfast (Cloud Library)
- Animation Lab for Kids (Cloud Library)
- Drawing and Painting on the iPad (Cloud Library)
- Brick Flicks (Cloud Library)
- One Drawing a Day (Cloud Library)
- The Acrylic Painter (Cloud Library)
- iMovie: The Missing Manual (Cloud Library)
- The Art of Drawing People (Hoopla)
- iPad Animation (Hoopla)
- The Art of Pastel’s (Hoopla)
- Martin Firrell (website)
- Jenny Holzer (website)
- Barbara Kruger (website)
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo (website)
- Artist Trading Cards (YouTube)
Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing: apply the critical analysis process to communicate feelings, ideas, and understandings in response to a variety of art works and art experiences
- The Art of DreamWorks Animation (book)
- Understanding Art (dvd)
- The Great Epochs of European Art (dvd)
- Realism (Hoopla)
- Abstract Expressionism (Hoopla)
- History of Art (EBSCO eBook)
- Kathe Kollwitz (website)
- Francisco Goya (website)
- Balinese Masks (website)
- Daphne Odjig (website)
- Norval Morrisseau (website)
- Molly Bang’s Picture This (Youtube)
- Meret Oppenheim (website)
- Horse and Train (website)
- Contemporary Art (Youtube)
- Who Decides What Art Means?(YouTube)
- Allegory – Art Vocab (YouTube)
- An example of Culture Jamming (YouTube)
Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their sociocultural and historical contexts
- The History of Art (book)
- The Art of Storyboard (book)
- Fashion (book)
- Art Documentaries (Kanopy)
- The History of Western Art (Hoopla)
- Pantone on Fashion (Cloud Library)
- Art of the First World War (website)