Warwick School District

Curriculum❯Art - Grade 3

Art - Grade 3

Grade Levels: 03 |

Course Description

The third grade art program is made up of units allowing students to explore people, places and things in their daily lives. Students will investigate and participate in art appreciation, art production, studio and aesthetic lessons.

Core Curriculum Content Standards

Arts and Humanities (2002)

  • Production, Performance and Exhibition of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts

    • GRADE 3

      • Know and use the elements and principles of each art form to create works in the arts and humanities. Elements -Dance: • energy/force • space • time -Music: • duration • intensity • pitch • timbre -Theatre: • scenario • script/text • set design -Visual Arts: • color • form/shape • line • space • texture • value Principles -Dance: • choreography • form • genre • improvisation • style • technique -Music: • composition • form • genre • harmony • rhythm • texture -Theatre: • balance • collaboration • discipline • emphasis • focus • intention • movement • rhythm • style • voice -Visual Arts: • balance • contrast • emphasis/focal point • movement/rhythm • proportion/scale • repetition • unity/harmony(9.1.3.A)
      • Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. -Dance: • move • perform • read and notate dance • create and choreograph • improvise -Music: • sing • play an instrument • read and notate music • compose and arrange •improvise -Theatre: • stage productions • read and write scripts • improvise • interpret a role • design sets • direct -Visual Arts: • paint • draw • craft • sculpt • print • design for environment, communication, multi-media(9.1.3.B)
      • Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts forms.(9.1.3.C)
      • Use knowledge of varied styles within each art form through a performance or exhibition of unique work.(9.1.3.D)
      • Demonstrate the ability to define objects, express emotions, illustrate an action or relate an experience through creation of works in the arts.(9.1.3.E)
      • Identify works of others through a performance or exhibition (e.g., exhibition of student paintings based on the study of Picasso).(9.1.3.F)
      • Handle materials, equipment and tools safely at work and performance spaces. -Identify materials used. -Identify issues of cleanliness related to the arts. -Recognize some mechanical/electrical equipment. -Recognize differences in selected physical space/environments. -Recognize the need to select safe props/stage equipment. -Identify methods for storing materials in the arts.(9.1.3.H)
      • Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for producing, performing and exhibiting works in the arts or the works of others. -Know and use traditional technologies (e.g., charcoal, pigments, clay, needle/thread, quill pens, stencils, tools for wood carving, looms, stage equipment). -Know and use contemporary technologies (e.g., CDs/software, audio/sound equipment, polymers, clays, board-mixers, photographs, recorders).(9.1.3.J)
      • Know and use traditional and contemporary technologies for furthering knowledge and understanding in the humanities.(9.1.3.K)

  • Historical and Cultural Contexts

    • GRADE 3

      • Explain the historical, cultural and social context of an individual work in the arts.(9.2.3.A)
      • Analyze a work of art from its historical and cultural perspective.(9.2.3.D)
      • Know and apply appropriate vocabulary used between social studies and the arts and humanities.(9.2.3.F)

  • Critical Response

    • GRADE 3

      • Know that works in the arts can be described by using the arts elements, principles and concepts (e.g., use of color, shape and pattern in Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie; use of dynamics, tempo, texture in Ravel’s Bolero).(9.3.3.B)
      • Explain meanings in the arts and humanities through individual works and the works of others using a fundamental vocabulary of critical response.(9.3.3.D)

  • Aesthetic Response

    • GRADE 3

      • Know how to communicate an informed individual opinion about the meaning of works in the arts (e.g., works of an artist of the month).(9.4.3.B)
      • Recognize that choices made by artists regarding subject matter and themes communicate ideas through works in the arts and humanities (e.g., artist’s interpretation through the use of classical ballet of the American West in Agnes De Mille’s Rodeo).(9.4.3.D)

Units

Unit #1 - Exploring Color

Unit #2 - Exploring Architecture

Unit #3 - Exploring Nature

Unit #4 - Exploring Portraiture