Year 7 Visual Arts Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 7 The Arts by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

By the end of Year 8, students analyse how visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated in artworks they create and/or experience. They evaluate the ways that visual artists across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning through their visual arts practice. They describe respectful approaches to creating and/or responding to artworks.

Students generate, document and develop ideas for artworks. They reflect on their visual arts practice. They select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning. They curate and present exhibits and/or displays of their own and/or others’ artworks and/or visual arts practice for audiences.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 7 Content Descriptors:

Creating and making

Visual Arts

Developing practices and skills

Visual Arts

Exploring and responding

Visual Arts

Presenting and performing

Visual Arts

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