Grade 4 Fine Arts Next Gen Standards

Relate and explain how the main idea of a dance is similar to or different from one's own experiences, relationships, ideas, or perspectives.

Develop a question that relates to a topic of study. Research and select key aspects of the topic, using multiple sources. Choreograph and perform a short sequence that communicates the information. Describe what was learned from creating the dance and discuss how the topic might be portrayed using another form of expression.

Select and describe movements in a specific genre or style and explain how the movements relate to the culture, society, historical period, or community from which the dance originated.

Identify ideas for choreography, generated from a variety of stimuli (e.g. music/sound, text, objects/props, images, notation, dance exemplars, own ideas and experiences).

Create multiple solutions to given movement problems to develop choreographic material by manipulating the elements of dance. Describe the solutions, using accurate language.

Apply a variety of choreographic devices (e.g. unison, canon, repetition) to expand choreographic movement possibilities, patterns, and structures.

Develop a dance study that expresses and communicates a main idea. Discuss the reasons and effectiveness of the movement choices.

Identify, explore, and select production elements (e.g., music/sound, props, costumes, video) that support the artistic intent of a dance for formal or informal performances. Compare and contrast the various production jobs of composers and costume, lighting, and set designers.

Revise movement material, using peer or teacher feedback and self-reflection, to improve communication of artistic intent in a short dance study. Explain movement choices and revisions made in the process.

Document the relationships (e.g. next to, above, below, behind, in front of)between two or more dancers in a movement sequence by drawing a picture, pathway map, using symbols, or working with media technology.

Make static and dynamic shapes with positive and negative space. Perform jump shapes with safety awareness. Establish relationships with other dancers through focus.

Accompany other dancers, using a variety of percussive instruments and sounds. Respond in movement to even and uneven rhythms. Recognize and respond to tempo changes as they occur in dance and music.

Analyze movements and phrases for use of energy and dynamic changes and their relationship to music (if present). Based on the analysis, refine the phrases by incorporating a range of movement qualities.

Demonstrate fundamental dance skills (e.g. alignment, coordination, balance, core support, kinesthetic awareness) and movement qualities when replicating and recalling patterns and sequences of locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Execute techniques that extend movement range, build strength, and develop endurance. Explain the relationship between execution of technique, safe body use, and healthful nutrition.

Coordinate phrases and timing with other dancers by cuing off of each other and responding to stimuli cues (e.g. music, text, or lighting). Reflect on constructive feedback from others to inform personal dance performance goals in rehearsal to improve performance quality.

Analyze the characteristics of alternative performance venues (e.g. gymnasium, grassy area, school yard) and modify spacing and movements accordingly. Demonstrate appropriate performer and audience etiquette in informal and formal performances.

Identify and explore ways to dance with a variety of production elements (e.g. music/sound, props, costumes, sets) to enhance performance of a dance. Observe video recording as a tool to improve performance.

Differentiate simple choreographic devices in a dance (e.g. unison, canon, variation).

Compare and contrast observed or performed movements originating from diverse dance styles, genres, and/or cultural movement practices, using basic dance terminology.

Use movements, ideas, and context to decipher meaning in a dance and describe that meaning by using basic dance terminology.

Demonstrate and discuss how the use of the elements of movement contribute to the overall impression of dances. Analyze the characteristics of movement elements observed or performed in a specific genre, style, or cultural movement practice and describe, using basic dance terminology.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts both influence and are influenced by dance.

Dance performance is an interaction between performers, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Performing

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

Choreographers are inspired by a variety of sources to convey concepts and ideas through movement for artistic expression.

Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Creating

Dancers use the body-mind principles and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.

Connecting

Responding

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic structures serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.

Personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret and create dance.

Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Meaningful interpretations of dance consider artistic intent, style, genre, the elements of dance, technique, structure, and context.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Create musical ostinati and/or sounds to accompany or portray events, a story, or to illustrate an abstract idea.

Describe places, times, and reasons for making and listening to music.

Perform folk dances from a variety of time periods and/or cultures.

Manipulate music concepts in order to express ideas.

Perform folk music from a variety of cultures and identify the music's role(s) or meaning in its culture of origin.

Document and preserve musical ideas or insights from varied musical styles and repertoire, using standard notation as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Generate rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.

Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an arrangement and composition to express intent, and describe connection to purpose and context.

Use standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively selected criteria and feedback.

Present the final version of created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the music that they selected to perform (from teacher- or student-provided options) is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, context, and technical skills.

Demonstrate knowledge of the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform, using standard notation, as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Demonstrate and identify the context and how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions (such as dynamics and tempo).

Apply established or collaboratively selected criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of performances.

Identify and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies and show readiness to present.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, context, and genre, demonstrating performance decorum.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Demonstrate and describe how selected music (from teacher or student-provided options) connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Demonstrate and describe how responses to music are informed by the use of the elements of music and by context (such as social and cultural).

Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers' interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Apply established criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, describing appropriateness to the context.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Musicians judge expression and technique in prepared performances by using criteria that vary across time, place, and culture. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Responding

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Connecting

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Creating

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Performing

Examine and choose personal experiences, interests, and relevant information to create media artwork that communicates a clear message.

Discuss and demonstrate how media artwork and ideas are influenced and inspired by life, cultures, values, and behavior.

Identify creative problem solving strategies used by media artists to innovate within the field.

Generate ideas for media artwork, using a variety of tools, methods, and/or materials.

Discuss ideas, plans, and models for media art production.

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts devices and media environments, considering ethics, rules, copyright, and fairness.

Through peer collaboration, explain and demonstrate how refinements affect the creation of media artwork.

Demonstrate how different art forms and interdisciplinary content may be integrated in media artwork presentations.

Use tools and techniques in traditional and innovative ways while constructing and presenting media artwork.

Assume roles, explain contexts, discuss improvements, and share the results of the presentation or distribution of media artwork.

Identify, describe, and explain how components of media artwork communicate specific messages.

Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artwork affect audience experience.

Share reactions and interpretations of a variety of media artwork, considering the purpose and context.

Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one media artwork.

Media artwork synthesize personal experiences to create meaning.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Creating

Media arts ideas and works are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, artistic traditions, and experiences.

Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into structures that can effectively realize artistic ideas.

Media artists integrate various forms and contents to present or share complex, unified media artworks.

Media artists balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing, creating, and sharing media artworks.

Media artists intentionally integrate, analyze, and revise elements, principles and processes to improve the clarity, communication, and purpose of the media artwork.

Skillful evaluation and critique are essential components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artwork.

Media artworks communicate and influence audience experiences.

Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves artistic appreciation and production.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Connecting

Media artwork is made to be shared. Media artists purposefully present and distribute media artworks for various contexts.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Responding

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

The reciprocal nature of creation and presentation of media artworks demands a wide range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems and refine media artworks. Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to effectively present media artworks.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, cultures, and various contexts.

Producing

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to navigate unforeseen challenges and to contribute to solutions within a society or culture.

Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of media artwork.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Theater artists allow awareness of relationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.

Theater artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Connecting

Theater artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal and active participation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Creativity is a foundation of theatrical practice.

Theater artists deliberately interrelate their creative process with the world around them.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

The essence of theater is storytelling.

Performing

Theater artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theater work.

Creating

Understanding of theatrical experiences is deepened through reflection.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Theater artists' interpretations of drama or theater work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Theater artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.

Theater artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created theatrical processes and productions to inform their own work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Responding

Theater artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience.

Identify the ways drama or theater work reflects a community or culture.

Respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in a drama or theater work.

Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling.

Identify historical sources that explain theater terminology and theatrical conventions.

Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds and improvised stories that support given circumstances.

Visualize and design technical elements that support a story and given circumstances.

Imagine how a character might move to support a story and given circumstances.

Collaborate to devise original ideas by asking questions about characters and plots.

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama or theater work to peers.

Revise an improvised or scripted drama or theater work through repetition and collaborative review.

Develop physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted drama or theater work.

Collaborate on solutions for design and technical problems.

Modify the dialogue and action to change a story in a drama or theater work.

Make physical and vocal choices to create a character.

Practice acting exercises that can be used in a group setting

Articulate how technical elements are used in theater.

Perform a small-group drama or theater work for peers.

Use participation and observation to identify artistic choices.

Compare and contrast multiple personal experiences, when participating in or observing a drama or theater work.

Identify and discuss physical changes connected to the emotions of a character.

Propose a plan to evaluate a drama or theater work.

Investigate how technical elements may support a theme or idea in a drama or theater work.

Observe how character choices affect audience perspective.

People create, respond to, and interact with objects and places in ways that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

Artists and designers balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing and creating artwork.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to contribute to innovative solutions within a society or culture.

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique; and reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Artists, collectors, curators, and other arts professionals consider a variety of criteria when analyzing and selecting objects, artifacts, and artwork for presentation and preservation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Responding

Works of art and design embody and influence the needs, desires, beliefs, traditions, and values of people within a culture.

Presenting

Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

People gain insight into meanings of artwork by engaging in a process of art criticism.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Connecting

Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Creating

Artists, curators, and other arts professionals engage appropriate methods and resources when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, and the world.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

People evaluate art, based on various criteria.

Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented communicate meaning and function as a record of social, cultural, and political experiences; resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Develop a work of art, based on observations of surroundings.

Connect visual characteristics of works of art and design to beliefs and traditions in a culture.

Brainstorm ideas for and experiment with improvements to simple items; evaluate, and present results.

Brainstorm multiple artmaking approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Work individually and collaboratively to set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Explore and invent artmaking techniques and approaches.

Utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a safe manner.

Identify, describe, and visually document places or objects of personal significance.

Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

Analyze how technologies have affected the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Analyze various environments for presentation and protection of art both in physical or digital formats.

Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.

Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Analyze components of visual imagery that convey messages.

Interpret art by analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.