Grade 4 Fine Arts Colorado Standards

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Perform dances that have different compositional structures.

Perform dances from different dance styles with accuracy and clarity, replicate body shapes, movement characteristics, and movement patterns in a dance sequence with awareness of body alignment and core support.

Perform simple dances from memory in pairs and groups.

Perform simple dances based on compositional forms.

Perform dances while observing safe movement practices.

Apply self-awareness to safe body movement.

Identify body needs to perform a dance style.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Manipulate or modify a variety of ideas to expand movement possibilities and create a variety of patterns and structures.

Experiment with movement that responds to a variety of stimuli.

Develop spontaneous improvised movements that can have a beginning, middle, and end.

Improvise and solve movement problems when working alone, with partners, or in small groups.

Explain their movement choices.

Create simple movement phrases alone or in groups using a theme, or structure.

Organize movements created into short dances based on a creative process.

Manipulate or modify movement sequences that have a beginning, middle, and end.

Edit and refine a dance to clarify intent.

Use technology to enhance their creative process.

Historical and Cultural Context

Identify and demonstrate movements and terminology consistent with different eras and cultures.

Observe, describe, and perform dances from various cultures.

Identify and examine the influences of an era and culture on a dance form.

Identify and examine dances of the past and dances of the present.

Identify similarities and differences of dances in cultures.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Identify theme, meaning, and structure in a variety of dances.

Use dance vocabulary to identify theme, meaning, and structure in dance.

Identify and describe the movement content of a particular dance work and the effect each component has on the work.

Discover personal connections through dance to other academic content.

Discover how dance relates to a variety of other academic content areas.

Identify the use of dance in a variety of communities.

Discuss how arts are related to one another.

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Generate the visual details of characters, imagined worlds, and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a creative drama or theatre work.

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

Imagine and articulate how a character might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a creative drama or theatre work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Collaborate to devise original ideas for a creative drama or theatre work through various forms of independent work, group collaboration, and whole class investigation.

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

Connect artistic ideas to personal experience and varied perspectives.

Investigate cross-cultural approaches to storytelling in a creative drama or theatre work.

Identify historical sources that explain terminology and conventions in a creative drama or theatre work.

Refine towards completion of artistic work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a creative drama or theatre work.

Develop characters through physical and vocal explorations in an improvised or scripted work.

Practice design and technical choices to fit the given parameters in a creative drama or theatre work.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

With support, describe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a creative drama or theatre work.

With support, use physical or vocal choices to create meaning in a creative drama or theatre work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques, choices, and work for presentation.

As an ensemble, collaborate to integrate movement and vocal choices in a creative drama or theatre work.

Propose design or technical element choices to enhance the meaning of a creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic work with audience, community, and ensemble.

With support, respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in a creative drama or theatre work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

With support, perform a small ensemble creative drama or theatre work for an audience of peers.

Critically Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Analyze personal reactions to artistic choices made in a creative drama or theatre work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

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

Compare and contrast the characters in creative drama and theatre works through identifying prop choices and makeup and costume designs that reflect cultural perspective.

Identify and discuss physiological changes connected to emotion and character development in a creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic experiences to our world; past, present, and future.

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

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Propose a plan to evaluate a creative drama or theatre work.

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

Hypothesize how a character’s choices may impact an audience’s perspective in a creative drama or theatre work.

Expression of Music

Perform/Demonstrate music that exhibits learned rhythmic, melodic, and chordal accompaniment components.

Demonstrate three-part vocal and/or instrumental rounds.

Demonstrate learned melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns using expressive elements.

Demonstrate and differentiate between songs in major and minor keys.

Perform/Demonstrate complex notated songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, tone, harmony and expressive elements.

Demonstrate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with attention to tempo, dynamics, and articulation learned from notation.

Demonstrate tempo, dynamic and articulation indications in musical examples.

Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual and ensemble technique and performance of notated songs.

Engage in refinement and feedback processes to prepare music for performance.

Self-evaluate to refine musical performance.

Critique expressive elements performed by others.

Creation of Music

Compose, improvise, and arrange musical ideas using rhythms and pitches.

Create and document melodic and/or rhythmic composition in known form using known rhythms and pitches.

Generate and improvise musical ideas using known rhythms and pitches.

Arrange a known melody by changing a musical component such as the style (e.g., students in a small group can arrange a song giving it a rap or rock ‘n’ roll feel using cymbals and drums).

Theory of Music

Identify and demonstrate extended notated melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns.

Melody: Identify and perform, or respond to in major/minor tonalities.

Rhythm: Identify and demonstrate dotted quarter/eighth, eighth note triplets.

Harmony: Identify, perform, or respond to basic harmonic patterns. (e.g., I-V, V-I).

Identify and demonstrate subtle differences in tempos, dynamics, and articulations.

Tempo: Identify and demonstrate fermata.

Dynamics: Identify and demonstrate mezzo forte, mezzo piano, pianissimo/fortissimo.

Articulation: Identify and demonstrate accent.

Identify and demonstrate complex form, meter, and timbre elements.

Form/Structure: Aurally identify a variety of forms including recurring themes, interludes, canons and theme/variations.

Meter/Beat Groupings: Identify and demonstrate music in 6/8.

Timbre: Aurally identify 2+ parts.

Response to Music

Discriminate between musical and nonmusical factors in creating criteria for evaluating music.

Evaluate how a variety of musical elements influence musical performance and preference.

Communicate similarities and differences in music from various historical periods with music of today.

Articulate contributions of various cultures to music from American historical periods.

Describe vocal and instrumental timbres and their uses throughout American music history.

Communicate similarities and differences throughout the history of American music.

Analyze the influence of the musics of various cultures and their role in American history (Caribbean, Western European, Native American, African, etc.).

Observe and Learn to Comprehend

Uncover how artistic intent can be enhanced through the use of the language of visual art and design.

Hypothesize the steps an artist may have used to complete a work of visual art or design.

Suggest alternative ways an artist could have communicated an idea.

Intentionally revise artwork to better communicate intended meaning.

Respond to an artist’s point of view being mindful of historical, contemporary, and cultural context.

Recognize how the human experience is expressed in diverse ways.

Respond to works of art using inference and empathy.

Envision and Critique to Reflect

Interpret and evaluate personal work and the work of others with informed criteria.

Discuss and define how to determine appropriate criteria for a given work of art.

Discuss and form an opinion about the social and personal value of art.

Synthesize researched and visual information to imagine, inform and plan possible next steps in personal artmaking.

Research from multiple sources to inspire works of visual art and design.

Investigate the ways alternative ideas are generated.

Invent and Discover to Create

Investigate ideas of personal interest to plan and create works of visual art and design.

Generate multiple ideas in order to select the idea that best communicates intended meaning.

Communicate a plan for completing works of visual art and design.

Analyze through collaborative discussion how personal works of art can be refined to effectively communicate.

Utilize media in traditional and inventive ways to communicate personal intent.

Justify how choice of media communicates personal intent.

Problem-solve and persist to determine the outcome of a final product.

Prepare works of visual art and design for presentation.

Relate and Connect to Transfer

Investigate and discuss how diverse communities address issues relevant to their culture, place and times by sharing and creating art.

Identify and describe how visual art and design communicate meaning between any subject, discipline, event or issue.

Compare works of art between diverse cultures to understand how the role of art is perceived within a given community.

Compare how artists work in different cultures and at different times in history.