Assignments and PROJECTS FOR fourth grade!
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Unit 1: Artists + Community = Relationships!
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create a symbol that means something to them. Then, create a pattern of positive and negative space.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a drawing of common everyday buttons, emphasizing one, creating a modern Pop Art creation.
Standard 4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 4.5: Describe and differentiate the roles of artists in society across history and cultures.
- 4.4: Speculate on how history and culture give meaning to a work of art.
- 4.7: Describe how the visual arts influence history and cultures.
LESSON TWO: Students will create a symbol that means something to them. Then, create a pattern of positive and negative space.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a drawing of common everyday buttons, emphasizing one, creating a modern Pop Art creation.
Unit 2: Art Construction
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will add visual textures to the other side of the clay slabs using paint.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a vertical mobile using wire and clay slabs.
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 1.1: Select and use different media, techniques, and processes.
- 1.6: Identify different medium, techniques, and processes that are used to create works of art.
LESSON TWO: Students will add visual textures to the other side of the clay slabs using paint.
LESSON THREE: Students will create a vertical mobile using wire and clay slabs.
Unit 3: Art Creating Brain Art!
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create contour line drawings and focus on composition, format, and negative space.
LESSON THREE: Students will create gesture line drawings and a final observational drawing of bones.
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 1.4: Demonstrate how a single medium or technique can be used to create multiple effects in works of art.
LESSON TWO: Students will create contour line drawings and focus on composition, format, and negative space.
LESSON THREE: Students will create gesture line drawings and a final observational drawing of bones.
Unit 4: Artistic Limitations!
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
LESSON TWO: Students will create an observational drawing of a flower using skills learned in our last unit and add values to represent the darks and lights of their flower.
Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Grade Level Expectation:
- 1.7: Describe how media and techniques are used to create two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.
LESSON TWO: Students will create an observational drawing of a flower using skills learned in our last unit and add values to represent the darks and lights of their flower.