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PRIMARY VISUAL ART: THIRD GRADE

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: THIRD GRADE // ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN


PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students experience art with attention given to the elements of art. (line, shape, color, form, texture, space, value) or principles of design (e.g., balance, emphasis, pattern)

Performance Standard

Students demonstrate an awareness of the elements of art and principles of design

Performance Standard

Students recognize elements of art and principles of design in two- and three-dimensional works of art

Performance Standard

Students identify and use the elements of art and principles of design

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students construct meaning and/or communicate ideas and emotions through the visual arts

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings

in the human experience through their productions, performance, or interpretations

2.23 – Students analyze their own and others’ artistic products and performances

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.1.31 Describe works of art using appropriate art terminology (subject matter, ideas, elements of art, principles of design)

AH-E-4.1.32 Art Elements – line, shape, form, texture and color (primary and secondary hue) and color groups (warm, cool neutral) value, space

AH-E-4.1.33 Principles of Design – organization of visual compositions: emphasis (focal point), pattern, balance (symmetry), contrast (light/dark)

Demonstrators:

Use art media, tools, techniques and processes

Use drawing, painting, print-making, modelings, and constructing to communicate ideas and feelings

Explore elements (space, line shape/form, value, texture, color) and principles (balance, emphasis, contrast, variety, repetition, movement, rhythm, pattern, proportion/distortion, transition/graduation, dominance

Create original visual art

Discuss works of art using appropriate concepts and terminology

Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in visual arts

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.1.41 – Create artwork using the elements of art and principles of design

Suggested Activities:

Portrait drawing, self-portrait drawing, figure drawing

Continue drawing shapes

Continue weaving activities

Introduce use of rulers as a drawing aid

Continue use of clay

Use symmetry in a variety of art projects

Introduce simple perspective (overlapping, size, detail, value, position on the picture plane)

Writing about elements of art: line, shape, form, texture, color, value, space

Writing about principles of design: emphasis, pattern, balance, contrast

Critical Vocabulary:

Line, shape (2-D), texture, form (3-D), color, space, pattern, balance, contrast

(light/dark), value (lightness or darkness of a color or neutral), hue/color primary (red, yellow, blue),

secondary (green, orange, violet), warm colors, (red, orange, yellow), cool colors (blue, green, violet)

neutrals (black, white, gray, brown), foreground, middle ground background, complementary colors, intermediate colors, symmetry, overlap, detail, portrait, self-portrait

 

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: THIRD GRADE // PROCESSES AND MEDIA

 
PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students explore a variety of media (e.g., crayon, pencil, paint) and processes (e.g., drawing, painting, weaving) used for creating works of art

Performance Standard

Students experience a variety of media and processes used for creating works of art

Performance Standard

Students develop skills in a variety of media and processes used for creating works of art

Performance Standard

Students recognize and begin to understand a variety of media and processes used for creating works of art

Performance Standard

Students identify and use a variety of media and processes

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students construct meaning and/or communicate ideas and emotions through the visual arts

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings

in the human experience through their productions, performance, or interpretations

2.23 – Students analyze their own and others’ artistic products and performances

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.1.34 Describe a variety of media and art processes used to produce two-and three-dimensional artwork

AH-E-4.1.35 Media – crayon, pencil, paint, fabric, yarn, clay, paper, papeir-mβche (used to produce artworks)

AH-E-4.1.36 Media – stone, wood, and metal (properties of media need to be known in order to respond to artworks)

AH-E-4.1.37 Art Processes – Two-dimensional drawing, painting and collage

AH-E-4.1.38 Art Processes – Three-dimensional pottery, sculpture and weaving

AH-E-4.1.39 Analyze how an artist uses various media and processes to communicate meaning in a work of art

Demonstrators:

Use art media, tools, techniques and processes.

Use drawing, painting, print making, modelings, and constructing to communicate ideas and feelings

Explore the elements and principles of art forms.

Create original visual art

Discuss works of art using appropriate concepts and terminology

Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in visual arts

Identify and express arts concepts in visual arts

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.1.34 – Describe a variety of media and art processes used to produce two-dimensional and three dimensional artwork

AH-E-4.1.35 – Media: crayon, pencil, paint, fabric, yarn, clay, paper, paper-mache (used to produce artworks)

AH-E-4.1.36 – Media: stone, wood, and metal (properties of media need to be known in order to respond to artworks)

AH-E-4.1.37 – Art processes: two-dimensional – drawing, painting and collage

AH-E-4.1.38 – Art processes: three-dimensional – pottery, sculpture and weaving

AH-E-4.1.39 – Analyze how an artist uses various media and processes to communicate meaning in a work of art

Suggested Activities:

Understanding use and care of paints

Learning proper gluing and cutting techniques

Experiencing simple clay construction

Describing a variety of media and art processes

Using crayon, pencil, paint, fabric, yarn, clay and paper to make art work

Recognizing stone, wood and metal as artistic media

Producing two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art

Use pottery, weaving and sculpture to produce three-dimensional art

Discuss personal and others’ works of art

Describe in writing a variety of media used to produce two- and three-dimensional artworks

Critical Vocabulary:

Line, shape (2-D), texture, form (3-D), color, space, pattern, balance, contrast

(light/dark), value (lightness or darkness of a color or neutral), hue/color primary (red, yellow, blue),

secondary (green, orange, violet), warm colors, (red, orange, yellow), cool colors (blue, green, violet)

neutrals (black, white, gray, brown), foreground, middle ground background, complementary colors, intermediate colors, symmetry, overlap, detail, portrait, self-portrait, pottery, sculpture, weaving

 

PRIMARY VISUAL ART: THIRD GRADE // HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students explore art from different cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard

Students experience art from different cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard

Students develop an awareness of different cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard

Students recognize and begin to understand works of art as belonging to particular cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard

Students identify works of art from particular cultures, periods and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.13 – Students construct meaning and/or communicate ideas and emotions through the visual arts

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feeling in the human experience through their productions, performance or interpretations

2.23 - Students analyze their own and others’ artistic products and performances

2.24 - Students appreciate creativity and the values of the arts and humanities

2.25 – Through their productions and performances or interpretation, students show an understanding of the influence of time, personality and society on the arts and humanities

2.26 - Students recognize differences and commonalities in the human experience through their productions, performances and interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-4.2.31 Identify various purposes for creating works of art

AH-E-4.2.32 Purposes of Art – expressive (express emotions and ideas), narrative (describe and illustrate experiences), functional (decorate objects)

AH-E-4.2.34 Cultures -Native American, Early American (folk/Appalachian), west African (Ivory Coast)

AH –E-4.2.36 Styles – Realistic, abstract

AH-E-4.2.37 Subject Matters – landscape, portrait, and still life

Demonstrators:

Explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in visual arts

Experience a variety of art forms from diverse cultures

Create original visual art

Describe reaction to artworks and performances using basic vocabulary

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures

Communicate recognition of the diversity of art forms and structures in visual arts

Respond to the expressive qualities of visual arts

Recognize and demonstrate arts concepts used to describe feelings

Recognize the role of the artist in visual art

Specific Activities:

AH-E-4.2.34 - Cultures: Native American, Early American (folk/Appalachian), West African, (Ivory Coast)

AH-E-4.2.36 - Styles: realistic, abstract, non-objective

AH-E-4.2.37 – Subject Matters: landscape, portrait and still life

Suggested Activities:

Looking at and writing about art from different cultures around the world

Identifying and writing about purpose in art

Recognize and writing about styles: realistic and abstract

Recognize and writing about subject matters: landscape, portrait and still life

Identifying and writing about commonalities and differences between Native American, Early American and West African Art

Critical Vocabulary:

Culture, functional, non-functional, decorative, expressive (expresses emotions and ideas) narrative (describes and illustrates experiences), realistic, abstract, landscape, portrait, still life

 

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