What Fourth Grade Students Should Know and Be Able to Do
Display self-confidence in their creative abilities
Take responsibility for their work
Recognize others’ work as unique
Share and cooperate with others
Exhibit curiosity about works of art
Recognize and use primary, secondary, tertiary, warm, and cool colors
Experiment using neutrals to create tints and shades
Recognize a variety of lines
Use line in a descriptive manner to convey mood (straight = calm,
zigzag = excited)
Compare and contrast shapes (i.e. natural/geometric, organic/inorganic,
objective/nonobjective) shapes in their work
Name basic geometric forms (i.e. cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, pyramid)
Continue to refine their ability to create texture in their work
Use basic perspective in their work (diminishing size from foreground
middle ground, to background)
Compile related and unrelated pieces into a visual whole in drawings,
paintings, sculpture, photography, film, or computer-generated art
Recognize the difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical balance
Experiment with ways to achieve balance by using elements of line, shape,
color, space, value, and form
Explain how unity is achieved in their work and that of others
Recognize multiple focal points with varying degrees of prominence in their
work and that of others
Identify ways movement is achieved in their work and that of others
Create movement (rhythm) in work through repetition of lines, shapes,
forms, colors, values, and textures
Create work that does NOT rely on copying, tracing, or patterns
Relate creative effort to organized thought
Critique their work and that of others in terms of art elements used
Develop ability to discuss their work and that of others in terms of meaning,
feeling, mood, and ideas
Create compositions, which consider the art elements in relation to design
Principles
Consider the concepts of perception, observation, creativity