Reflect and discuss the visual structures and functions used in personal artwork.

Recognize that artwork may serve functional purposes, be purely decorative, or serve multiple purposes.

Compare how global and cultural diversity elicits differing responses.

Compare and contrast two pieces of personal work.

Analyze how art can be a reflection of society and a response to real world experiences.

Describe how artwork communicates facts and/or experiences of various cultures.

Compare and contrast the visual elements contained in the artwork of particular cultures.

Evaluate the interrelationship between design, trends, events, and the economics of a culture.

Analyze various uses of art globally, in media, business, technology, and industry.

Investigate and identify careers related to advertising.

Identify connections between technology and the arts.

Demonstrate cross-curricular connections through a culminating event.

Make artistic choices regarding character, environment, and situation that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Perform dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Create simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.

Analyze the characters and setting.

Outline standards that can be used to critique performances.

Compromise with peers in small group decision making about artistic design choices.

Unite random objects and situations to form a cohesive story.

Build skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.

Analyze the character's wants and needs.

Predict emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

Compare and contrast different presentations from the same time period or cultural context.

Discuss the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

Compare and contrast performances in a variety of multimedia forms.

Create artistic projects that show how ideas and emotions are expressed in everyday life.

Use technologies to communicate ideas and experiences.

Demonstrate control and safe use of technologies with environmental awareness.

Analyze and reflect on the elements of art and design to communicate ideas.

Prepare, present, and collaboratively evaluate personal artwork.

Synthesize the use of a variety of materials, techniques, and processes to problem solve in the creation of art.

Synthesize knowledge of elements of art and principles of design to creatively communicate ideas.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers that are rhythmic and melodic.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.

Arrange songs in various ways.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 4th [...]

Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 4th grade.

Identify theme and variation, coda, D.S. (Del Segno), D.C. (Da Capo), and other forms when presented aurally.

Use invented or standard notation to transcribe increasingly difficult rhythms and melodies.

Describe the music performed and presented in 4th grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

In small groups, use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music.

Identify the timbre of non-western instruments.

Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions

Use music vocabulary and aesthetic vocabulary to describe personal response to music.

Describe distinguishing instrumentation of music genres and styles from various cultures.

Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 4th grade.

Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 4th grade.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various 4th grade arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the 4th grade curriculum.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.