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Fourth Grade Standards

Teacher: CORE Art Grade 4
Course:  Art Grade 4

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 Art Grade 4
Essential Questions
Content
 Know and use the elements and pricipals of art form to create works in the arts and humanities.

Elements: color, form/shape, line, space, texture and value.
Principles: balance, contrast, emphasis/focal point, movement/rhythm, proportion/scale, repetition and unity/harmony.

Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropiate art elements and principals to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.

Paint, draw, craft, sculpt, print, design for environment, communication and multi-media.
Skills
 Produce projects that deal with lines of various types, lengths and thicknesses.

Combine shapes to produce works of art.

Shade shapes to create 3D effects.

Build sculptures of diverse materials by combining them into a unified work.

Use shading of various media to suggest testure in 2D and 3D works.

Use primary and secondary colors as elements of shading and perspective (dark to light).

Know and use primary, secondary and intermediate colors.

Utilize tints and shades.

Recognize perspective through "figure ground" relationships.

Depict near and far objects.

Know and use balance in works of art.

Recognize the use of balance in the works of others.

Awareness of a variety of artists, styles and movements.
Assessments
Lessons
Standards
9.1.5.C ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Know and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms.
9.1.5.D ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Describe and use knowledge of a specific style within each art form through a performance or exhibition of a unique work.
9.1.5.E ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Know and demonstrate how arts can communicate experiences, stories or emotions through the production of works in the arts.
9.1.5.F ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Describe works of others through performance or exhibition in two art forms.
9.1.5.G ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Identify the function and benefits of rehearsal and practice sessions.
9.1.5.H ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Use and maintain materials, equipment and tools safely.
9.1.5.I ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Describe arts events that take place in schools and in communities.
9.1.5.J ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Apply traditional and contemporary technologies for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others.
9.1.5.K ~ Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts ~ Apply traditional and contemporary technology in furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.
9.3.5.A ~ Critical Response ~ Identify critical processes in the examination of works in the arts and humanities.
9.3.5.B ~ Critical Response ~ Describe works in the arts comparing similar and contrasting characteristics (e.g., staccato in Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King and in tap dance).
9.3.5.C ~ Critical Response ~ Classify works in the arts by forms in which they are found (e.g., farce, architecture, graphic design).
9.3.5.D ~ Critical Response ~ Compare similar and contrasting important aspects of works in the arts and humanities based on a set of guidelines using a comprehensive vocabulary of critical response.
9.3.5.E ~ Critical Response ~ Describe and use types of critical analysis in the arts and humanities.
9.3.5.F ~ Critical Response ~ Know how to recognize the process of criticism in identifying and analyzing characteristics among works in the arts.
9.3.5.G ~ Critical Response ~ Describe a critic's position or opinion about selected works in the arts and humanities (e.g., student’s presentation of a critical position on Walt Disney’s Evolution of Mickey and Minnie Mouse).
9.4.5.A ~ Aesthetic Response ~ Identify uses of expressive symbols that show philosophical meanings in works in the arts and humanities (e.g., American TV ads versus Asian TV ads).
9.4.5.B ~ Aesthetic Response ~ Investigate and communicate multiple philosophical views about works in the arts.
9.4.5.C ~ Aesthetic Response ~ Identify the attributes of various audiences’ environments as they influence individual aesthetic response e.g., Beatles’ music played by the Boston Pops versus video taped concerts from the 1970s).
9.4.5.D ~ Aesthetic Response ~ Explain choices made regarding media, technique, form, subject matter and themes that communicate the artist’s philosophy within a work in the arts and humanities (e.g., selection of stage lighting in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story to communicate mood).
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