Grade 8 CTE Kansas Standards

FCS Career Awareness

Career Readiness

Apparel and Textiles

Nutrition, Wellness and Food Preparation

Healthy Living Environment

Personal Resource Management

Healthy Relationships

Personal Development

Demonstrate foundational life literacy skills.

Identify Maslow’s hierarchy of needs on meeting basic needs.

Evaluate the importance of building foundational life literacy skills

Analyze factors that impact development of self-esteem and self-worth.

Assess personal hygiene and self-care strategies.

Analyze the benefits of making intelligent decisions.

Demonstrate effective communication skills.

Analyze role of communication on preventing conflicts with friends, family and others.

Apply problem-solving strategies to real-life situations.

Demonstrate strategies for respecting self and others.

Understand and practice appropriate skills and ethical behavior when using technology.

Demonstrate positive relationship skills and understanding of others at school, in the community and at home.

Analyze the importance of family and the role families play in personal development.

Analyze how to be a responsible and supportive family member.

Evaluate the needs of children regarding safety, activities, food and positive discipline techniques.

Demonstrate appreciation and support for family members and others.

Demonstrate the qualities necessary for successful friendships and how to handle peer pressure in a positive manner.

Analyze the negatives and positives of technology on the health of relationships.

Understand what it means to be a good community citizen.

Analyze the impact of one person through volunteering, serving as a community leader and working for the common good.

Practice foundational personal management, consumer and personal finance skills to meet personal goals.

Apply leadership and cooperative learning skills to achieve personal goals.

Practice personal management skills in a variety of settings.

Distinguish the difference between needs and wants.

Analyze impact of personal financial decisions on the family, community and the environment.

Identify the basics of financial planning.

Investigate basic roles and responsibilities of the consumer.

Identify and apply wise consumer practices.

Analyze management and organization of personal possessions to promote safety and healthy living environment.

Evaluate personal and shared living spaces for function and meeting needs of self and family.

Apply concepts of personal safety in physical environments.

Analyze storage needs of personal possession that fits lifestyle and space.

Demonstrate foundational nutrition, wellness and food preparation knowledge and skills to enhance individual and family well-being.

Apply nutrition basics in making healthy food choices.

Assess personal exercise and sleep habits to enhance health.

Apply wellness concepts to live a healthy lifestyle.

Apply nutrition concepts to prepare healthy food.

Analyze food sources and practices that impact the nutritional value of the food we consume.

Demonstrate food preparation and food safety concepts when preparing healthy food.

Demonstrate kitchen safety and personal sanitation habits in food labs.

Utilize basic kitchen math while preparing food.

Create a safe and effective work environment.

Analyze personal decisions regarding apparel and its role in meeting physical, social and emotional needs.

Analyze needs met through apparel decisions.

Compare and contrast different price points of clothing to determine best value.

Analyze factors in making wise apparel decisions.

Practice appropriate repair and care of apparel as a means of extending life of item.

Demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills for success in career and work.

Investigate interest aptitudes and abilities to align to careers that meet personal needs and interests.

Research and create a plan of study based upon personal interests through high school and beyond.

Evaluate of basic life literacy skills provides a foundational readiness for all career clusters.

Analyze the technical knowledge and skill development needed for specific career clusters.

Demonstrate foundational skills in Family and Consumer Sciences careers.

Identify careers that are part of the Family and Consumer Sciences family.

Develop foundational understanding of role of credit counselling and family financial planning skills.

Develop foundational hospitality and lodging skills.

Develop foundational family and consumer sciences teaching skills.

Analyze the relationship between life literacy skills and human services careers.

Analyze the technical knowledge and skills needed to be successful in Family and Consumer Sciences related careers.

Demonstrate safety practices and techniques related to practicing foundational occupational skills in community and laboratory settings.

Develop foundational culinary skills.

Develop foundational apparel design and production skills.

Develop foundational early childhood education skills.

Develop foundational interior design skills.

Develop foundational skills needed to work in the field of geriatrics.

makes informed artistic choices.

plans and participates in community-based art experiences as an artist or observer.

acknowledges the value of artistic choices in everyday life.

analyzes how creating art uses a variety of life skills and provides lifelong learning.

Recognizes the education and training required for visual art careers.

applies concepts from non-art disciplines to creating art.

describes ways that the arts and non-art disciplines affect each other.

discusses associations between techniques, media, and processes used in art with similar ones used in non-art disciplines.

Investigates associations between visual art and non-art disciplines.

creates works of art that incorporate knowledge of the performing arts.

analyzes the same concept across the visual and performing arts.

compares and contrasts characteristics among visual and performing arts.

Makes connections among works in the visual and performing arts.

compares interrelationships between human behavior, the environment, and materials used to create art.

creates art that incorporates two different visual art forms.

analyzes and describes the qualities among different visual art works.

Combines various visual art forms to describe and create art.

Proficient

Making Connections Between the Visual Arts and Other Disciplines

critiques aesthetic issues surrounding the creation of art.

debates the aesthetic merits of art work.

generates responses toward how and why art is created.

Develops, expresses, and defends opinions surrounding aesthetic issues in art.

defends responses to art works based on informed knowledge base.

generates and analyzes responses to art works based on informed knowledge base.

Forms and defends judgments based on characteristics and merits of art works.

debates the merits of works of art.

explains how various responses to characteristics of an art work can influence the interpretation of merit.

responds to various interpretations of visual works of art.

compares, contrasts, and interprets the characteristics of works of art.

Interprets characteristics and evaluates merits of art works.

Proficient

Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of Art

produces art that incorporates visual characteristics from another culture.

produces work that reflects art as a living history.

plans and creates a work of art that reflects characteristics of present day culture.

Creates art work that utilizes characteristics from works of a selfselected movement or culture.

compares and contrasts how art functions in various cultures, times, and places.

describes how art is similar and different from one geographical location to another.

explains how art evolves within selected cultures over time.

Explains functions of art in various cultures, times, and places.

analyzes and describes how the meanings of specific art works are influenced by factors of time and place.

categorizes art works into the appropriate movement, era, or culture based on physical and visual characteristics.

Explains how factors of time and place influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to works of art.

Proficient

Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History and Cultures

compares and contrasts possible solutions to visual problems.

proposes a solution to a visual problem.

proposes a visual problem to be solved.

Analyzes and applies the effectiveness of the problem-solving process in creating art.

creates art work that assigns new meaning to images, symbols, and ideas from other sources.

applies images, symbols, and ideas to produce works of art that communicate specific messages.

Interprets and represents images, symbols, and ideas in art works.

identifies the ways personal experiences influence development of specific art works.

interprets art works based on common themes and/or functions.

compares and contrasts art works based on common themes and/or functions.

Identifies and discusses the ways in which symbols and styles communicate meaning in art.

Proficient

Creating Art Works Through Choice of Subjects, Symbols, and Ideas

analyzes effectiveness of the use of elements and principles in communicating a message through art.

uses the elements and principles to produce art work with a message.

Employs and defends the use of elements and principles in art works.

explains and discusses how the qualities of elements and principles are used for communication.

analyzes how elements and principles affect the expressive qualities in works of art.

Critiques art works based on the use of the elements and principles.

compares and contrasts visual qualities of elements and principles in works of art.

discusses implicit and explicit evidence of elements and principles found in art works.

Identifies and interprets art works based on the use of elements and principles.

Proficient

Using Knowledge of the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design

maintains a positive attitude toward the art room environment.

shows respect for others' work and space.

follows established routines.

Consistently cleans up and organizes materials and equipment with minimal prompting.

demonstrates and applies the safe use, control, and maintenance of art tools, protective equipment, and media.

explains the safe use, control, and maintenance of art tools, media, and equipment.

Uses art materials, tools, and protective equipment safely in the appropriate time, place, and manner.

employs the most effective media and technology for communicating ideas.

intentionally takes advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques and processes for enhancing communication of experiences and ideas.

documents personal responses to works of art and explains how the media, techniques, and processes contribute to responses.

Analyzes media, techniques, and processes to create specific effects that intentionally communicate through works of art.

creates two- and three-dimensional works of art that show competency and craftsmanship.

practices to fine-tune manipulative skills.

Demonstrates advanced control with media, techniques, and processes when creating two- and three-dimensional works of art.

explains the differences in the visual effects of different materials used to create a three-dimensional work.

explains the differences in the visual effects of different materials used to create a two-dimensional work.

Compares and contrasts visual effects of various materials, techniques, and processes.

selects and uses effective media, techniques, and processes to enhance personal communication.

intentionally takes advantage of a given media, technique, and/or process.

given assigned media, determines techniques and processes.

Compares and contrasts different types of materials, techniques, and processes.

Proficient

Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes