4th Grade

Visual Arts

Strand: CREATE (4.V.CR.)
Students will generate artistic work by conceptualizing, organizing, and completing their artistic ideas. They will refine original work through persistence, reflection, and evaluation (Standards 4.V.CR.1-4).

Standard 4.V.CR.1:
Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Standard 4.V.CR.2:
Collaboratively set goals and create an artwork that is meaningful and shows the intent of the makers.

Standard 4.V.CR.3:
Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches by utilizing and caring for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others when making art, and by documenting, describing, and representing regional constructed environments.

Standard 4.V.CR.4:
Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

Strand: PRESENT (4.V.P.)
Students will analyze, interpret, refine, and select artistic work for presentation. They will convey meaning in the manner in which the art is presented (Standards 4.V.P.1-3).

Standard 4.V.P.1:
Analyze how past, present, and emerging technologies have affected the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Standard 4.V.P.2:
Analyze the various considerations for presenting and protecting art in various locations, indoor or outdoor settings, in temporary or permanent forms, and in physical or digital formats.

Standard 4.V.P.3:
Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.

Strand: RESPOND (4.V.R.)
Students will understand, evaluate and articulate how works of art convey meaning for the observer as well as the creator (Standards 4.V.R.1-4).

Standard 4.V.R.1:
Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Standard 4.V.R.2:
Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.

Standard 4.V.R.3:
Refer to contextual information and analyze relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

Standard 4.V.R.4:
Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.

Strand: CONNECT (4.V.CO.)
Students will relate artistic skills, ideas, and work with personal meaning and external context (Standards 4.V.CO.1-2).

Standard 4.V.CO.1:
Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Standard 4.V.CO.2:
Through observation, infer information about the time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

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