Art Curriculum: Fifth Grade
Ridgeview Elementary School
Wilder Waite Grade School
Miss Dana Johnson, Art Education K-5
Adapted from the curriculum written by Mrs. Sue Fluegel

Students will

•  Illustrate organizational principles and expressive qualities of art

•  Manipulate media and tools to create and complete a work of art using: paper, scissors, glue, crayons, markers, colored pencils, oil pastels, chalk pastels, watercolors, tempera paint, clay, glaze, acrylic paint and paper mache.

•  Continue to develop their hand-eye coordination and demonstration of skills.

•  Participate as a member of a group, and practice appropriate social interactions

•  Apply creativity, imagination, and problem solving skills.

•  Examine and analyze the historical and cultural implications of art

•  Appraise and assess their work as well as the work of other students in an appropriate fashion.

•  Take Joy in discovering their unique ability to create art.

•  Understand how works of art reflect history and cultures

•  Explain the importance of a center of interest in a composition

•  Design a picture which achieves rhythm through repetition

•  Create rhythm and motion in a design with lines and shapes

•  Use oil crayon (cray-pas) to dramatize and intensify the blending process

•  Characterize the expressive qualities of story telling through symbols

•  Arrange a piece so that details compliment main idea showing that the composition is spatially balanced

•  Create a sculptural three dimensional form using papier mache

•  Compare and contrast the importance of functional form versus non-functional form

•  Describe three ways in which space can be achieved in a piece of art

•  Discover how overlapping and placements are used to define spatial perspective

•  Demonstrate knowledge of the different elements of the color wheel

•  Name the following color families: primary, secondary, complementary, warm, cool and neutral

•  Demonstrate color mixing and brush techniques in painting

•  Identify and describe how the arts communicate the similarities and differences among various people, places and times

•  Describe how art functions within commercial application (production and advertisements)

•  Describe how history and time periods affect art

•  Determine three key similarities, distinctions, and connections among artists

•  Identify and use the sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive qualities to create an image in two-dimensional space.

•  Interpret and translate natural shapes through the stencil process

•  Describe and utilize symmetry as a principle of art

•  Produce contrast through positive-negative space design

•  Identify how Native American art reflects history, society, and everyday life in North America

•  Apply pattern to a picture for the purpose of embellishment

•  Demonstrate the use of unity and variety as cohesive elements in a composition

•  Explain the origin of ceramic clay, the kiln firing process and different glazing properties

•  Distinguish different methods of ceramic hand building

•  Design and construct a piece of pottery showing balance and proportion

•  Evaluate the effectiveness of a theme in a piece of work

•  Apply Pablo Picasso's methods of cubism to create an abstract piece of art

•  Name Keith Haring as a contemporary artist and recognize his work

•  Use Keith Haring's style to create an original composition

•  Name Edgar Degas as a famous artist and recognize dancers as one of his primary subjects

•  Name Jackson Pollock as an influential Abstract expressionist

•  Name Mark Rothko as an important Abstract expressionist originally from Russia and immigrated to the US