Grade 4 - Arts Education

Big Ideas

Curricular Competency

Content

Exploring and creating

Reasoning and reflecting

Communicating and documenting

Creative expression is a means to explore and share one's identity within a community.

Artists experiment in a variety of ways to discover new possibilities.

Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.

Exploring works of art exposes us to diverse values, knowledge, and perspectives.

Choose artistic elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques and environments using combinations and selections for specific purposes in art making

Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play

Explore identity, place, culture, and belonging through arts experiences

Explore relationships among cultures, societies, and the arts

Observe, listen, describe, inquire and predict how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments to create and communicate

Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills in a variety of art forms to improve the quality of artistic creations

Reflect on creative processes and make connections to other experiences

Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating, interpreting, and analyzing works for art

Adapt learned skills, understandings, and processes for use in new contexts and for different purposes and audiences

Interpret and communicate ideas using symbolism to express meaning through the arts

Express, feelings, ideas, and experiences in creative ways

Describe and respond to works of art and explore artists' intent

Experience, document and present creative works in a variety of ways

Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content

elements and principles that together create meaning in the arts, including but not limited to:

dance: body, space, dynamics, time, relationships, form, and movement principles

drama: character, time, place, plot, tension, mood and focus

music: beat/pulse, duration, rhythm, tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics, form, texture

visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form; principles of design: pattern, repetition, balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm, variety

processes, materials, technologies, tools and techniques to support arts activities

choreographic devices

a variety of dramatic forms

notation to represent sounds, ideas, movements, elements, and actions

image development strategies

symbolism and metaphor create and represent meaning

traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes

a variety of regional and national works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places

personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or presenting in a safe learning environment