Grade 4 Fine Arts Missouri Standards

Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.

Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.

Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacherprovided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context and technical skill .

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm , pitch , and form ) in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, r ead and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).

Apply teacher provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy and appropriate interpretation.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social and cultural).

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

Research

Interrelate

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Empathize

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

CONNECT

Evaluate

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Reflect

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

RESPOND

Share, Present

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Prepare

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

PERFORM

Rehearse

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Envision/Conceptualize

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

CREATE

Articulate the visual details of imagined worlds, and improvised stories that support the given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Visualize and design technical elements that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Imagine how a character might move to support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.

Collaborate to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work by asking questions about characters and plots

Make and discuss group decisions and identify responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work to peers.

Revise and improve an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work through repetition and collaborative review.

Develop physical and vocal exercise techniques for an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Collaborate on solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a drama/theatre work.

Identify the ways drama/theatre work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.

Respond to community and social issues and incorporate other content areas in drama/theatre work.

Investigate crosscultural approaches to storytelling in drama/theatre work.

Compare the drama/theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Understand why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work.

Compare and contrast multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Compare and contrast the qualities of characters in a drama/theatre work through physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural

Identify and discuss physiological changes connected to emotions in drama/ theatre work.

Propose a plan to evaluate drama/theatre work.

Investigate how technical elements may support a theme or idea in a drama/theatre work.

Observe how a character’s choices impact an audience’s perspective in a drama/theatre work.

Modify the dialogue and action to change the story in a drama/theatre work.

Make physical choices to develop a character in a drama/theatre work.

Practice selected exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/theatre work

Propose the use of technical elements in a drama/theatre work.

With prompting and support, demonstrate appropriate audience ettiquette for the venue and purpose.

Share smallgroup drama/theatre work, with peers as audience.

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Synthesize

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem

Play & Ideation

Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Explore and invent artmaking techniques and approaches.

Skill Acquisition

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

Safety & Ethics

Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Analyze how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Analyze the various consideration s for presenting and protecting art in various locations, indoor or outdoor settings, in temporary or permanent forms, and in physical or digital formats.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Perceive

Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristic s of form, and use of media.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.

Evaluate