Grade 4 Fine Arts Oregon Standards

Identify ideas for choreography generated from a variety of stimuli (e.g., notation, emotions, observed dance, personal experiences).

Relate the main idea or content in a dance to one's own experiences.

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

Read an article of interest. Choose words from the article and generate movements that symbolize those words.

In a group, use movement concepts (e.g., change level, direction, timing, relationships) to vary a movement combination.

Discuss the effect of the movement choices.

Revise movement choices based on peer feedback and self-reflection to improve a short dance combination.

Explain choices made in the process.

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

Analyze movements and phrases for use of energy and dynamic changes.

Demonstrate combinations of fundamental dance steps incorporating changes in levels and direction.

Execute techniques that extend flexibility, build strength, and develop endurance.

Explain the relationship between execution of technique, safe body-use (alignment, balance, coordination), and healthful nutrition.

Identify and experiment with a variety of production elements to heighten the audience's experience.

Use elements of dance to decipher meaning in an observed dance from one or more genres or cultures.

Identify and discuss, using basic dance terminology, the characteristics that make a dance interesting or meaningful.

Apply those characteristics to a variety of dances observed.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Conceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of creative methods, such as brainstorming and modeling.

Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

Explain verbally and/or in media artworks, how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life, such as fantasy and reality, and technology use.

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

Discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.

Structure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated principles, such as balance and contrast.

Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

Demonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks, such as narrative, dance, and media.

Enact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, production, and collaboration in media arts productions.

Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of tools and techniques in standard and novel ways while constructing media artworks.

Explain the presentation conditions, and fulfill a role and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

Explain results of and improvements for presenting media artworks.

Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks.

Determine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context.

Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

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

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

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

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

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).

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

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

Refine and complete artistic work.

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

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

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

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds, and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Visualize and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Imagine how a character might move to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Identify the ways drama/theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

Analyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in preparation for a drama/theatre work.

Compare the drama/theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Collaborate to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work by asking questions about characters and plots.

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work to peers.

Revise and improve an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work through repetition and collaborative review.

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

Collaborate on solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.

Modify the dialogue and action to change the story in a drama/theatre work.

Make physical choices to develop a character in a drama/theatre work.

Practice selected exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/theatre work.

Propose the use of technical elements in a drama/theatre work.

Share small-group drama/theatre work, with peers as audience.

Identify artistic choices made in a drama/theatre work through participation and observation.

Compare and contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Compare and contrast the qualities of characters in a drama/theatre work through physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural

Identify and discuss physiological changes connected to emotions in drama/theatre work.

Propose a plan to evaluate drama/theatre work.

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

Observe how a character's choices impact an audience's perspective in a drama/theatre work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Generate and research ideas for artwork that draw upon specific moods, feelings, or themes.

Imagine and articulate numerous approaches for composition.

Constructively use, explore and manipulate materials and organizational principles to create a work of art that communicates an idea.

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Examine and apply personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create artwork.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made, cultural influences & global perspectives.

Explain verbally and/or in writing how artwork and ideas reflect everyday and cultural life (e.g. fantasy and reality, history, technology, popular culture).

Explore art-making techniques and approaches that reflect consideration to form and structure (i.e. organizational principles and expressive features)

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

Document, describe, and represent regional/state environments and histories.

Collect a body of evidence that documents the artistic process.

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

Choose from among experimental approaches and techniques to determine the most effective solution.

Utilize personal reflection and critical feedback to refine technical proficiency, intentionality, aesthetic judgment and expressive capability.

Select artworks to put into their portfolio and explain why they chose those specific works.

Collect and organize a body of evidence that reflects the artistic process and prepare it for presentation (e.g. sketchbook, digital format).

Write an artist's statement that reflects their learning.

Compare and contrast how art exhibited in and outside of school in museums, galleries, and other venues, including virtual spaces, contributes to the community and personal experience.

Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

Select art objects for personal portfolio and display and explain why they were chosen.

Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are preferred.

Investigate possibilities and limitations of a variety of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Understand and examine how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Distinguish between different types of art (i.e. 2D & 3D) and determine messages communicated.

Describe visual imagery based on expressive properties (i.e. content, formal elements of art and principles of design).

Using art vocabulary, analyze the components in visual imagery used that convey a message.

Interpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, formal art elements, and use of media.

Use art vocabulary to express preferences about an artwork.

Using visual evidence, apply given criteria to evaluate more than one work of art. (e.g. artistic styles, genres & media, historical & cultural contexts)