Art Curriculum: Fourth 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 and acrylic paint.

•  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 own unique ability to create art.

•  Characterize implied texture as opposed to actual texture and implement both within a mixed-media collage

•  Create the illusion of common textures

•  Understand how the elements and principles of design combine with an art form create or express an idea

•  Identify the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional space

•  Manipulate composition as an understanding of balance, symmetry, and the organization of space

•  Understand the importance of artistic planning and the difference between a draft and a finished product.

•  Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to create a landscape using problem solving, observation, and composition

•  Recognize and depict a realistic image through the use of contour lines

•  Demonstrate the use of unity and variety as important elements within a composition

•  Explore architectural perspectives and describe the specific role of an architect

•  Recognize and implement the concept of converging parallel lines within an architectural picture

•  Render three-dimensional buildings in a composition producing visual space and distance through the use of perspective and proportion

•  Illustrate a realistic portrait through the use of line, shape, and value

•  Identify the importance of both positive and negative space within an original composition

•  Analyze and critique the effectiveness of a piece of work

•  Adapt and modify a design to the limitations of a particular material

•  Utilize the slab method to make creative and unique work of art with clay

•  Create a sculpture with clay to understand three-dimensional relationships

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

•  Compare the effectiveness of two identical images one in black and white the other in color

•  Describe how art functions in commercial applications

•  Identify and describe the relationship between art and environment

•  Name Pablo Picasso as a famous Spanish artist and identify abstraction as a key element within his art

•  Name Frank Lloyd Wright as an important artist and recognize his architecture in Peoria

•  Name Vincent Van Gogh as an important artist and recognize his artistic style as well as his role in creating mood/emotion through the use of color

•  Name Andy Warhol as a contemporary artist and recognize his role in factory style production of Pop Art through printmaking