2012-2013 Year-at-a-Glance
Contemporary Imagination
4th Grade
Jeffco Visual Arts
Month
August
4th Grade
Visual Arts
Units of Study
September
October
November
November
Imagination, Invention and Abstraction
(15-18 days)
December
January
February
February
March
Landscapes: Do artists always follow the rules?
(15-18 days)
April
May
Aspects of Color
(15-18 days)
Colorado Visual Arts Academic Standards: 4th Grade
Comprehension: Understand the World of Art and Observe (45-54 days)
Standard 1
Observe and
Learn to
Comprehend
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To learn and think about current contemporary artists and art practice.
To think like an artists and to interact with other artists:
o
To make thinking, artistic choices with intent and purpose
o
To describe with art vocabulary
o
To discuss art and art making
o
To observe and interpret leads to personal opinions.
Grade Level Expectations
1. Artists and viewers determine artistic intent by comparing and contrasting the characteristics and
expressive features of art and design
2.Works of art articulate and express different points of view
3. Artists, viewers and patrons respond to works of art using inference and empathy
Adapted from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education Authors: Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, Kimberly Sheridan
Reflection: Envision, Examine and Analyze (45-54 days)
Standard 2
Envision and
Critique to
Reflect
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To imagine and generate image possibilities in the mind through:
o
Looking at and discussing the multiple purposes in art across time and culture
To ask intentional questions about the process of art making.
Responding to works of art through:
o
Critique and interpretation of meaning in contemporary art
o
Forming individual opinions about art and art making processes
Grade Level Expectations
1. The critique process informs judgments about artistic and aesthetic merits in works of art
2. The processes and philosophies of art and design inform interpretations in works of art
Adapted from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education Authors: Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, Kimberly Sheridan
Creating: Developing Craft and Learning to Express (45-54 days)
Standard 3
Invent and
Discover to
Create
Grade Level Expectations
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Learning to care for materials and tools in the studio classroom
o
Extend and explore traditional materials and non-traditional materials
Making art through:
o
Beginning to acquire a discipline of purposeful attention to craftsmanship
o
Learning intention in idea to communicate meaning through art making.
o
Using a Sketchbooks for Experimenting, Planning and Explaining ideas by building a
visual vocabulary
1. Use media to express and communicate ideas about an issue of personal interest
2. Materials and processes can be used in traditional, unique, and inventive ways
Adapted from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education Authors: Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, Kimberly Sheridan
Transfer: Engage and Persist in Art / Stretch and Explore in Art (45-54 days)
Standard 4
Relate and
Connect to
Transfer
o
o
Connecting art:
o
To personal meaning and artistic intent
o
To art making processes
o
To time periods and social and /or cultural settings
To develop endurance in art making and connecting art
o
Learning to explore and connect the explorations
o
Responding to art in a variety of ways: Societal, Historical and Cultural
Grade Level Expectations
1. Viewers and patrons make personal meaning and infer artistic intent
2. Historical time periods and cultural settings are interpreted in works of art
Adapted from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education Authors: Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, Kimberly Sheridan
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Contemporary Imagination
4th Grade
Jeffco Visual Arts
Cross-Content Connections are not limited to the connections listed below.
Relevant as well as frequent cross-connections with all content areas are encouraged. Detailed information on Cross-Content grade level units can be attained through the grade level PLC and/or collegial conversations with grade
level educator team at your site.
Arts Enhanced or Cross-Content Enhanced Curriculum:
Arts Integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art
When the arts or other content are used as a device or strategy to support other curriculum areas. Arts
form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form and another subject area and meets gradually
Enhanced or Cross- Content Enhanced Curriculum acts as a ‘hook’ to engage students in learning content.
developing objectives in both.
The Arts Enhanced and Cross- Content Enhance Curriculum definitions adapted from Kennedy Center
ArtsEdge Connect. Create. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
Month
August
September
October
November
December
January
Arts Integration definition adapted from Kennedy Center ArtsEdge Connect. Create.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org
February
March
April
Cross-Content Connections
May
o
Oral Expression and Listening: Using Language as a Tool for Learning(Aug.-May)
o
ELA
Units of Study
Reading:
Exploring Characters
(Sept.-Oct.)
Writing:
Using Imagery
(Sept.-Oct.)
Writing:
My Opinion Counts:
Persuasive Writing
(Jan.-Feb.)
Reading:
It’s Complicated: Human
Experience Through Literature
(April-May )
o
o
o
ELA: Cross-Content CONNECTIONS
Artists and viewers determine artistic intent by comparing and contrasting the
characteristics and expressive features of art and design
(Standard 1GLE 1)
To imagine and generate image possibilities by comparing and contrasting contemporary
art
To ask intentional questions about the process of art making
Making art through:
o
Using a Sketchbooks for Experimenting, Planning and Explaining ideas by
building a visual vocabulary
Responding to works of art through:
o
Critique and interpretation of meaning in contemporary art
o
Forming individual opinions about art and art making processes
Learning to Write about Writing to Learn (Aug.-Dec.)
Math
Units of Study
o
o
o
o
o
Geometry and Measurement
(Dec.-Jan.)
Understanding Region: Africa
(Oct.-Nov.)
Social Studies
Units of Study
Colorado
(Oct.-March)
Compared to Colorado
(March- May)
o
o
o
SCIENCE
Units of Study
Compare and Contrast:
Forms of Energy
(Aug.-Oct.)
Compare and Contrast:
Components of Solar System
(Oct.-Dec.)
Compare and Contrast:
Past and Present Living Systems
(Jan.-Feb.)
o
o
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Math: Cross-Content CONNECTIONS
2 D Geometric- Shapes
3D Geometry - Form
Measurement, investigating lines, shapes and forms
To look at art with intentionality and purpose
Connecting art to social and/or cultural ideas
SOCIAL STUDIES: Cross-Content CONNECTIONS
Historical time periods and cultural settings are interpreted in works of art (Standard 4
GLE1)
Connecting art to personal meaning and artistic intent and to time periods and social and
/or cultural settings
Responding to art in a variety of ways: Societal, Historical and Cultural
SCIENCE: Cross-Content CONNECTIONS
Responding to works of art through:
o
Comparing and contrasting multiple components in composition
o
Forming individual opinions about art and art making processes
Learning to care for art materials and tools through understanding the actions and
reactions of applications.
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Contemporary Imagination
4th Grade
Jeffco Visual Arts
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