Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.2D Grade 4 CPI 3

 

Standard: 1.2 - Creation and Performance

 

Strand: D - Theater

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will generate works of art based on selected themes.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

A Day at the Beach - Ask students to consider what lies beyond the shoreline under the sea.

      ·        Using the Internet, students research creatures that exist in the ocean.
·        Using the examples found, students combine and adapt the results of their research to design creatures that reflect an imaginative use of the elements and principles.
·        Students select media to create a two or three dimensional model of their sea creature.

 

Essential Questions:
·        As an artist, what guides your decisions most (e.g. elements, principles, theme, narration, and mood)?

 

Reflective Practice:
·        Looking at the completed artwork, is there anything you would change? Why?
·        What satisfies you the most about your completed artwork? Why?

The contents of the CPI's and Framework Activites come from the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) - CD-ROM (Version 1.0), which was developed collaboratively by the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) and Seton Hall University (SHU)

For more information on this CCCS search engine contact Mitchel Gerry - mg@ntuaft.com or Mike Maillaro - mm@ntuaft.com.

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