Media Arts: Grade 4

Creating

Producing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work

Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work

Refine and Complete Artistic Work 

Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation

Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation

Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work

Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work

Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work

Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work

Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art

Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding

Conceive of original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of generative methods, such as brainstorming and modeling.

Discuss, test, and assemble ideas, plans, and/or models for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and the presentation.

Structure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated aesthetic principles, such as balance and contrast.

Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

Demonstrate how a variety of academic, arts, and media forms and content may be mixed and coordinated into media artworks. 

Enact identified roles to practice foundational artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as formal technique, equipment usage, and collaboration, in media arts productions.

Practice foundational innovative abilities, such as design thinking and novel use of tools, in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Explain the presentation conditions, audience response, and improvements for presenting.

Identify, describe, and explain how messages are created by components in media artworks. 

Identify, describe, and explain how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Determine and explain reactions and interpretations to a variety of media artworks, considering their purpose and context

Identify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.

Examine and use personal and external resources, such as interests, research, and cultural understanding, to create media artworks.

Examine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or cultural experiences, such as online spaces.

Explain, verbally and/or in media artworks how media artworks and ideas, such as fantasy and reality and technology use, relate to everyday life and culture.

Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, and fairness.