Fourth Grade Visual Art Content Standards
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Creative Expression:
- Students express ideas, feelings and emotions through creating original works of art using a variety of media, techniques and processes. They explore different sources for inspiration: imagination, intuition, memory and observation. They learn to value their creative process and product, and those of others, as they engage in a variety of art-making experiences.
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Artistic Perception:
- Students use their senses to perceive their own art work, and others, as well as objects in nature and their environment. They begin to communicate about their work and process, and that of others, by using visual arts language (e.g. expressive features, sensory qualities, principles of art and elements of design). They learn to understand that people “see” through different lenses and that the way people perceive the world is shaped by their individual experiences.
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Historical/Cultural Context:
- Students explore art and artists from many cultures across time and place. They discover universal themes and concepts.
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Aesthetic valuing:
- Students question the nature of art (e.g. what is art?) as they engage in their creative process. They have opportunities to develop respect for multiple viewpoints by discussing their values of art with others.
Students learn to express personal ideas and feelings using their imagination, intuition, memory, or observation. Students learn to value originality, artistic freedom, and the art process. The art curriculum places artistic expression at the center; aesthetics, art criticism, and history grow out of and serve students’ creative experiences. Students have opportunities to make choices, cope with ambiguity and uncertainty, as they exercise judgment in solving their own artistic problems. Through the making of their own art, students learn to invent, experiment, take risks, make mistakes, and learn from each other. The elementary visual arts curriculum is student centered emphasizing development of their imaginations and sensory perception. Children have opportunities to experience a balance/variety of the following:
Fourth grade students experience the following:
Fourth grade students expand expressive skills and develop respect for the artist’s process of “getting ideas.” They make connections between their own art work and the art of other people, times and places, especially from within their own community.
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Drawing
- using a variety of materials, students explore principles of basic perspective (overlapping and scale); combining drawing from observation and imagination
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Painting
- with a variety of materials (including opaque watercolors) on alternative surfaces (i.e. cardboard)
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Printmaking
- with repeating processes from former grade levels but changing size (i.e. large monoprints); combining drawing, printmaking and/or painting
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Sculpture
- with clay using subtractive and additive methods to create a large form (i.e. imaginary animal); experimentation with glazing techniques (layering and/or dripping)
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Crafts
- with paper crafts, fiber and textiles (i.e. paper mache, batik and/or paper marbling)
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Photography
- with a still camera, create photographs; introduction to video