National Art Standards

Fourth Grade Content Standard #1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
Achievement Standard:

• Students know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes.
• Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses.
• Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

Content Standard #3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Achievement Standard:

• Students explore and understand prospective content for works of art.
• Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

Content Standard #4: Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Achievement Standard:

• Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures.
• Students identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
• Students demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art.

Content Standard #6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Achievement Standard:

• Students understand and use similarities and differences between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
• Students identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.