Grade 4 Fine Arts OLS Standards

Explore artists and works of art that impact the history and culture of Ohio.

Demonstrate safety while creating and performing.

Discuss the connection between emotion and music in selected musical works using elements of music.

Describe how theatrical performances can elicit thought and feeling from an audience individually and collectively.

Discover and solve problems of personal relevance and interest when developing artmaking ideas.

Improvise and create movements that reflect an understanding of themes from a range of sources, including other content areas.

Improvise rhythms and melodies with attention to cadences and tonal centers within a variety of song forms using a variety of sound sources.

Use vivid, descriptive language to create a script around one or more elements of theatre (character, action, plot, setting).

Engage and persist in artistic risk-taking.

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness and safe practices when performing developmentally appropriate movements and sequences.

Read and perform using known rhythms, whole notes, dotted notes, sixteenth-note combinations, or syncopated rhythms in a variety of meters.

Manipulate voice, movement, space, design, and physical objects to communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas in both improvised and scripted activities.

Identify qualities that contribute to the design and meanings of works of art.

Describe the relationship between music and movement in creating meaning for dances performed or observed.

Discuss the lives and times of composers from various historical periods and cultures.

Explain, through appropriate theatrical vocabulary, how manipulation of technical elements brings about changes in performances.

Explore universal themes expressed across arts disciplines.

Recognize and describe features of dance and how cultural values are represented.

Attend and reflect on music performances demonstrating appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of music performed.

Explore dramatic, theatrical, and storytelling traditions in the cultures or ethnic groups throughout Ohio’s history.

Select materials and processes to solve artistic problems.

Invent multiple solutions to movement prompts, improvisations, and dance compositions.

Compose using known rhythms, whole notes, dotted notes, sixteenth-note combinations, or syncopated rhythms in a variety of meters using phrase and large form, standard and iconic notation, and a variety of sound sources.

Improvise movements and voices for characters to convey each character’s decisions and motivations within a dramatic theme.

Select and vary materials, tools, and processes to achieve innovative outcomes.

Develop an increasing understanding of the elements of dance and movement vocabulary when exploring, creating, and describing dance.

Read and perform extended pentatonic melodies in treble clef using do or la tonal centers.

Use various design components used in different productions of the same work.

Provide and receive constructive feedback for personal skill development.

Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.

Classify instruments by their families.

Analyze how a playwright uses conflict to communicate an idea or theme.

Demonstrate empathetic reactions in response to works of art.

Discuss how the elements and subject matter of music connect with other subject areas.

Use the elements of theatre in combination with art elements from at least two other art forms.

Consider the elements of art and principles of design to create visually effective compositions.

Apply and combine the elements of dance to express ideas, feelings, moods, and personal narratives.

Compose extended pentatonic melodies in treble clef using do or la tonal centers.

Utilize innovative ways to apply the elements of art and principles of design.

Demonstrate leadership when working alone, with partners, and in small groups to improvise and solve movement problems.

Sing (using head voice and appropriate posture) and move to music of various styles, composers, and cultures with accurate pitch, rhythm, and expressive qualities.

Direct peers in performing a dramatic task or action.

Analyze art forms, techniques, and artistic styles from a variety of cultures and historical periods.

Defend personal reactions to an observed dance performance.

Compare and contrast elements of music using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.

Explain how a theatrical experience (live theatre production, film, video and media) impacts its audience through the integration of plot, character, theme, and setting.

Use elements and processes of theatre to integrate information from other academic content areas.

Recognize how current media and the latest technologies increase opportunities for how dance is created and viewed worldwide.

Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others while demonstrating various proper techniques.

Compare interpretations of the same piece of music as it occurs in movement, dance, drama, or visual art.

Implement and assess strategies that develop character by adjusting posture, gesture, breath, and vocal intonation.

Recognize and describe the roles of designers in live theatre and other media arts.

Observe the dances created by peers and identify creative problem-solving strategies using dance concepts and vocabulary.

Demonstrate partner songs and descants.

Explain personal preferences for musical selections using music vocabulary.

Identify methods used by actors, directors and designers to make connections with an audience in a theater with a thrust or arena stage.

Use problem-solving and cooperative skills to dramatize stories, historical events, or concepts from Ohio history.

Maintain independent, simple, four- and eight-beat rhythmic stinato against at least two separate parts.

Follow and respond to grade-appropriate cues of a conductor.

Explore music created by Ohio artists and determine how their works were influenced by their Ohio roots.

Identify and respond to simple music forms (verse/refrain, rondo).

Connecting: Artists/students understand and communicate the value of creative expressions in internal and external contexts.

Connecting: Artists/students understand and communicate the value of creative expressions in internal and external contexts.

Connecting: Artists/students understand and communicate the value of creative expressions in internal and external contexts.

Connecting: Artists/students understand and communicate the value of creative expressions in internal and external contexts.

Creating: Artists/students use creative thinking and reasoning skills to perceive concepts and ideas to develop works.

Creating: Artists/students use creative thinking and reasoning skills to perceive concepts and ideas to develop works.

Creating: Artists/students use creative thinking and reasoning skills to perceive concepts and ideas to develop works.

Creating: Artists/students use creative thinking and reasoning skills to perceive concepts and ideas to develop works.

Performing: Artists/students employ personal processes and skills to solve problems creatively and present work in various contexts.

Performing: Artists/students employ personal processes and skills to solve problems creatively and present work in various contexts.

Performing: Artists/students employ personal processes and skills to solve problems creatively and present work in various contexts.

Performing: Artists/students employ personal processes and skills to solve problems creatively and present work in various contexts.

Responding: Artists/students engage in analysis and interpretation to understand and evaluate artistic works.

Responding: Artists/students engage in analysis and interpretation to understand and evaluate artistic works.

Responding: Artists/students engage in analysis and interpretation to understand and evaluate artistic works.

Responding: Artists/students engage in analysis and interpretation to understand and evaluate artistic works.