Art Curriculum: Third 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

•  Manipulate media and tools to create and complete a work of art using: paper, scissors, glue, crayons, markers, yarn, 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 unique ability to create art.

• Identify the elements of line, shape, value, and space
• Explore value as a change in pressure applied to the pencil, as well as a unique element used to create volume within a picture
• Illustrate how shadows are produced through contrast and value changes
• Create the illusion of movement in a design by repeating shapes and colors
• Produce a design with radial symmetry
• Identify the principles of repetition and pattern
• Relate and recognize how to use materials in a safe and responsible manner
• Analyze and celebrate cultural diversity
• Create a symbolic image
• Demonstrate knowledge of printmaking as an artistic process
• Compose a drawing influenced by the imagination
• Identify the expressive qualities of mood, emotional and pictorial representation in art through societal influences
• Discuss how art conveys stories about people, places, and time periods
• Use the imprinting technique to transform clay
• Produce a relief sculpture out of clay
• Create and build a piece of pottery using the coil method
• Understand the chemical and physical changes undergone during the kiln firing and glazing processes
• Illustrate an abstract landscape by simplifying and stylizing
• Translate forms in nature through lines, shapes, and colors
• Utilize perspective and spatial qualities
• Generate interest on a picture plane by using color families
• Compose an image using a template
• Apply embellishment to express inventiveness and flexibility
• Identify how art contributes to occupations and environments

• Name Faith Ringgold as a famous contemporary artist and recognize “Tar beach” as a significant piece of her work
• Name Edvard Munch as an important artist and evaluate “The Scream” as an expressionist image.
• Name Claude Monet as an important impressionistic artist