Spain Segundo de Primaria School Syllabus - Creative Arts

This information is derived from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Educagob) website and pertains to the first cycle of primary education (Primer Ciclo), which includes Segundo de Primaria.

Specific Competencies

1. Discovering Artistic Proposals: Explore various artistic genres, styles, eras, and cultures through active reception to develop curiosity and respect for diversity. 2. Artistic Investigation: Research cultural and artistic expressions and their contexts using diverse channels, media, and techniques to appreciate their value and develop personal artistic sensibilities. 3. Creative Expression: Express and communicate ideas, feelings, and emotions creatively by experimenting with sound, image, body movement, and digital media to produce original artwork. 4. Participation in Artistic Productions: Participate in the design, creation, and dissemination of individual or collective cultural and artistic productions, valuing the process and assuming different roles to develop creativity, a notion of authorship, and a sense of belonging.

Evaluation Criteria

• Competency 1: Discover artistic proposals through active reception, demonstrating curiosity and respect; describe cultural and artistic expressions in their immediate environment, exploring their characteristics with an open attitude and interest.
• Competency 2: Select and apply basic strategies for guided information seeking on cultural and artistic expressions through simple access channels and media, both individually and cooperatively; recognize basic characteristic elements of different cultural and artistic expressions that are part of heritage, indicating the channels, media, and techniques used and identifying differences and similarities.
• Competency 3: Produce original artwork in a guided manner, using some of the expressive possibilities of the body, sound, image, and basic digital media, demonstrating confidence in one's own abilities; express ideas, feelings, and emotions in a guided way through simple artistic manifestations, experimenting with different languages and instruments within their reach.
• Competency 4: Participate in a guided manner in the design of basic cultural and artistic productions, working cooperatively based on equality and respect for diversity; take part in the cooperative process of cultural and artistic productions respectfully, using basic elements of different artistic languages and techniques; share creative projects, explaining the process and the final result obtained, and valuing one's own experiences and those of others.

Basic Knowledge

• Reception and Analysis: Main artistic proposals from different aesthetic trends, origins, and eras produced by local, regional, and national creators; basic strategies for active reception; basic rules of behavior in the reception of artistic proposals in different spaces; silence as an essential element and condition for maintaining attention during reception; basic specific vocabulary of plastic and visual arts, audiovisual arts, music, and performing arts; basic digital resources for plastic and visual arts, audiovisual arts, music, and performing arts.
• Creation and Interpretation: Phases of the creative process: guided planning and experimentation; professions linked to plastic and visual arts, audiovisual arts, music, and performing arts; interest in both the process and the final product in plastic, visual, audiovisual, musical, scenic, and performative productions.
• Plastic, Visual and Audiovisual Arts: Visual culture; the image in today's world: basic reading techniques and strategies; basic configurative elements of visual language: point, line, plane, texture, color; basic materials, instruments, supports, and techniques used in plastic and visual expression; media, supports, and materials for plastic and visual expression; basic two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques in simple drawings and models; appropriate tools for image and sound recording; basic strategies and techniques for composing simple audiovisual stories; basic notions about cinema.
• Music and Performing Arts: Sound and its basic qualities: auditory discrimination, classification, and representation of diverse sounds and melodic lines through different notations; voice and musical instruments; main families and groups; visual and auditory discrimination; sound objects; everyday sounds; character and tempo; instrumental, vocal, and body practice: approach to experimentation, creative exploration, and interpretation based on one's own sound and expressive possibilities; assisted construction of instruments with materials from the environment; basic musical languages: application of their elementary concepts in the interpretation of vocal and instrumental musical proposals; the body and its motor possibilities: interest in experimentation and exploration through individual and group performances linked to movement, dance, dramatization, and theatrical representation as a means of expression and fun; basic dramatic and dance techniques; basic expressive and creative capacities of body and dramatic expression.