Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

GA.1. Fine Arts: Band

1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct playing position and posture for chosen instrument.

1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct breathing, embouchure, articulation, vibrato and technical skills appropriate to the chosen instrument and developmental level.

1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates effectively as a member of performing ensembles.

1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs class repertoire at the expected competency level.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs music reading skills, including sight-reading, at the expected competency level.

1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups, and as a member of the total ensemble.

1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Tunes instrument accurately with assistance and demonstrates an increasing awareness of good intonation.

1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates understanding of phrase and melody through performance.

1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes harmonic structure and demonstrates an awareness of its role in performance.

1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of selected repertoire and performs appropriate scales and arpeggios.

1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the timbre of band instruments.

1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal and performance of music.

1.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to access music information.

1.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs interpretations and/or improvisations of music repertoire.

1.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates, notates and performs a simple melody for his or her instrument.

1.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of vibrato on chosen instrument.

1.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds appropriately to conducting techniques used by the director.

1.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with characteristic tone quality at the expected competency level.

1.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates knowledge of form in music repertoire.

1.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques music performed by the ensemble and suggests ways to improve.

1.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Identifies and compares performance styles from various historical eras of music.

1.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected music repertoire and the historical/cultural context of works being performed.

1.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the evolution and history of band instruments.

GA.2. Fine Arts: Choral Music

2.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct posture for singing.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct breathing techniques for vocal production.

2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings accurate pitches and rhythms.

2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings scales, arpeggios and vocalizes from memory.

2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings with clear vowel sounds, proper diction and appropriate tone quality.

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings the assigned part in an ensemble, with and without accompaniment.

2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proficiency in sight-reading at the expected competency level.

2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs selected music repertoire at the expected competency level.

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups and as a member of the total ensemble.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates effectively as a member of performing ensembles.

2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of music performed.

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies differences in scales and harmonies from aural and visual examples.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies various types of voices heard in choral performances.

2.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal and performance of music.

2.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to locate definitions of musical terms and to translate foreign language texts.

2.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings from memory selected music for public performance.

2.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds appropriately to conducting techniques used by the director.

2.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes how technology is used to transcribe, edit, compose and perform music on a computer station.

2.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Interprets meaning of texts in repertoire.

2.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes relationship of text to music elements in repertoire (e.g., rhythm, melody, harmony, form, tempo, dynamics, phrase, and tonality).

2.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates appropriate understanding of form in literature performed.

2.22. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies the characteristics of performance styles of music being rehearsed and performed.

2.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected repertoire and the historical/ cultural context of works being performed.

2.24. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains the importance of contributions of various ethnic cultures to selected repertoire.

GA.3. Fine Arts: Dance

3.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in warm-up activities related to strength, muscular endurance, heart-lung endurance, flexibility, speed, balance, power, and agility.

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs combinations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Refines skills in basic movements with props.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in dance techniques requiring greater control and clarity of movement (e.g., moving in parallel and turned-out positions, moving with constant flow), and control of force/energy, skills of elevation, turning, balancing, and changing direction.

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased knowledge of spatial concepts: space (symmetrical, asymmetrical, wide, narrow), pathways (straight, curved, zig zag), levels, dimension, and relationships combined with knowledge of force (energy).

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Expresses thoughts, ideas, and feelings through structured improvisation.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates and performs more complex dance compositions.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased knowledge of dance terminology.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops concentration skills necessary for performance.

3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Refines skills in basic movements with props.

3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies positive work habits and self-discipline through dance activities.

3.12. Connections: Increases knowledge of rhythmic concepts: syncopation, simple counterpoint, and meter.

3.13. Connections: Identifies the correlation between dance and other subject areas.

3.14. Connections: Demonstrates an understanding of dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

3.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies characteristics unique to various types of theatre dance (e.g., ballet, jazz, tap, modern, etc.).

3.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in folk dances representative of various cultures.

3.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Understands historical perspectives of different styles of dance in a variety of cultures.

GA.4. Fine Arts: General Music

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to music in a variety of instrumental and vocal styles through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes between the sounds of bands and orchestras.

4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes aurally between music in major and minor keys.

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies orchestral families and their members by sight and sound.

4.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes differences in vocal register and quality, such as soprano, alto, tenor, bass, child's voice, and boy soprano.

4.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes how melody, rhythm, timbre, and texture affect the style of music.

4.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections, and simple formal structures -- AB, ABA, AABA, and ABACA.

4.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with increasing accuracy in pitch, dynamic level, tone quality, diction, blend, and balance by singing developmentally appropriate songs.

4.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs, simple ostinato, and descants.

4.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plays melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments to accompany folk and ethnic music.

4.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates movements for musical dramatizations.

4.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates sound compositions, sound stories, and sound collages using body percussion, environmental sounds, and classroom instruments.

4.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple pentatonic improvisations on melodic instruments.

4.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates improvised accompaniments on melodic instruments to pentatonic songs.

4.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Improvises accompaniments using body percussion, environmental sounds, and classroom instruments.

4.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies composer or folk source and documented publication information from musical score.

4.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the flat and sharp symbols and understands their function.

4.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes and names frequently used musical symbols such as treble clef, notes, rests, and 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meter signatures.

4.19. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level.

4.20. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates new texts for familiar songs.

4.21. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs simple instrumental melodic patterns and rhythmic patterns by ear and from notation.

4.22. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains and follows text for multiple-stanza songs.

4.23. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs from notation simple scale patterns.

4.24. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes personal response to listening selections.

4.25. Historical and Cultural Context: Interprets text and musical style in folk and ethnic music of America and other countries.

4.26. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates emerging skills in folk dances from a variety of cultures.

4.27. Historical and Cultural Context: Sings songs representing a variety of cultures using English and simple non-English texts.

4.28. Historical and Cultural Context: Expands knowledge of selected famous composers.

GA.5. Fine Arts: String Orchestra

5.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct playing position and posture for chosen instrument.

5.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates correct pizzicato, bowing, and left hand techniques appropriate to chosen instrument and developmental level.

5.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates effectively as a member of performing ensembles.

5.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs selected music repertoire at the expected competency level.

5.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Reads music to the expected competency level of the class.

5.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates ability to perform individually, in small groups, and as a member of the total ensemble.

5.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Tunes instrument accurately with assistance and demonstrates an increasing awareness of good intonation.

5.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with characteristic tone quality at the expected competency level.

5.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of vibrato.

5.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of phrase and melody through performance.

5.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes key signatures of selected repertoire and performs appropriate scales and arpeggios.

5.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes harmonic structure and demonstrates an awareness of its role in performance.

5.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the timbre of orchestral stringed instruments.

5.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of music vocabulary necessary for study, rehearsal, and performance of music.

5.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses print and nonprint media to access music information.

5.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs interpretations and/or improvisations of music repertoire.

5.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates, notates, and performs a simple melody for his or her instrument.

5.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates appropriate understanding of form in selected music repertoire.

5.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques music performed by the ensemble and suggests ways to improve.

5.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates knowledge of composers of selected music repertoire and the historical/cultural context of works being performed.

5.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Describes the evolution and history of orchestral string instruments.

5.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Recognizes contributions by composers and/or performers of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

5.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Performs music from various historical periods with correct style.

GA.6. Fine Arts: Theatre Arts

6.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies basic drama and theatre vocabulary (e.g., script, play, scenario, and tableau).

6.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates collaborative group skills when planning and executing drama activities.

6.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses emotional recall to interpret and enact personal experience.

6.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses physical and verbal action to communicate mental image.

6.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and applies observation as the basis for creating a role.

6.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses a variety of facial expressions, gestures, physical movements, and body language to express ideas, feelings, character traits, and motivations.

6.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and uses six basic stage areas for classroom drama.

6.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Communicates a character's actions, emotions, traits and feelings through voice, speech and language.

6.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes vocal elements of pitch, rate, articulation, volume, intensity, breath support, and relaxation.

6.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies physical, emotional and social attributes of characters.

6.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Designs, creates, and uses simple technical elements for drama activities.

6.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes the role and responsibilities of the designer/technician in drama activities.

6.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Researches and reports information that supports drama activities.

6.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and applies dramatic elements of plot, setting, character, and dialogue.

6.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies dramatic elements in planning and writing short (one page) scripts and scenarios based on personal experience and heritage, literature, imagination, or history.

6.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Adapts short poems, narratives, stories, and monologues to simple scripts.

6.17. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses the Play Writing Process: Step One: Pre-writing (generate story ideas, create situations, develop characters, explore environments, develop themes); Step Two: Drafting (develop narrative with dialogue, structure in play format); Step Three: Revision (present a reading, make revisions); Step Four: Edit (correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, create final draft); Step Five: Share/Publish (present a formal or informal reading or production).

6.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies dramatic form to communicate meaning using story dramas, short scripts and plays, readers' theatre, pantomime, puppetry, poetry theatre, 'process drama,' monologue, storytelling, and/or tableau.

6.19. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Assumes the role and responsibilities of the director in drama activities.

6.20. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in and communicates through the creative drama process in a group setting: Pre-Playing (participates in warm-up activities, generates ideas about story, topic or theme); Preparation (listens to story and discusses ideas, determines drama elements: who, when, where, and what; sequence of actions); Playing (assumes roles in drama); Evaluation/Reflection (critiques playing, discusses meaning); Replay (builds on suggestions, enhances with simple technical elements); Sharing (shares drama with the group).

6.21. Connections: Recognizes and describes how the arts play an important role in the everyday life of the community.

6.22. Connections: Uses other disciplines such as social studies, language arts, foreign languages, physical education, and science content for ideas for drama.

6.23. Connections: Uses existing technology to support drama/theatre activities.

6.24. Connections: Creates dramas based on ideas, concepts, and events from the early development of the United States.

6.25. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Establishes and uses simple criteria for evaluating dramatic presentations.

6.26. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes implicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

6.27. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes explicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

6.28. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies, compares, and contrasts dramatic forms as a participant or as an audience member.

6.29. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes and demonstrates the role and responsibility of the audience.

6.30. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community, and professional resources for theatre experiences.

6.31. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Locates and selects a variety of literature as a basis for drama activities including poems, short stories, monologues, diaries, and plays.

6.32. Historical and Cultural Context: Demonstrates an awareness that drama comes from all cultures throughout time.

6.33. Historical and Cultural Context: Compares and contrasts cultures through drama activities.

GA.7. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

7.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks using the following properties of colors (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).

7.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks using the following color theories (e.g., complementary and neutral).

7.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artwork portraying an object, subject, or theme from different points of view (e.g., close-up, below, and above).

7.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks using direct observation, lines (descriptive, directional, and expressive), shapes and space (positive and negative), spatial concepts (overlapping, placement, size, color, and detail), balance (symmetrical and asymmetrical), and contrast.

7.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Emphasizes specific elements of art and principles of design and selects materials and techniques appropriate to creating an artwork based on own idea and self-direction.

7.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Produces artworks in a variety of subject matter and in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, fiber arts, and mixed media.

7.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses available technology such as computer, camera, and video recorders, to create artwork.

7.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.

7.9. Connections: Researches and applies regional history sources as ideas for original works of art.

7.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies and discusses the properties of color (e.g., hue, intensity, and value).

7.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies and discusses color schemes (e.g., complementary and neutrals).

7.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explains how artists use a variety of lines and color values within an artwork to achieve three-dimensional effects (dimensional line and shading techniques).

7.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explains how space and shapes can be positive and negative in a composition.

7.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Compares spatial concepts that show depth in artworks (e.g., overlapping, placement (scale), color intensity, and detail [atmospheric perspective]).

7.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses an artist's purpose for using line, shape, and color to capture movement in artworks, such as gesture drawings, action painting, and mobiles.

7.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops criteria for sorting artworks into categories of landscapes, cityscapes, still life's, seascapes, and portraits.

7.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes how an artist creates a point of view in an artwork (e.g., close-up, below, and above).

7.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops and applies criteria for judging personal decisions about artworks.

7.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Examines selected artworks based on questions related to art theories: Does the intent of the artwork seem to be to imitate? (Realism); Is the artwork primarily concerned with design or composition? (Structuralism/Formalism); Is the work trying to express a feeling or emotion? (Expressionism/Emotionalism).

7.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Matches a description of a culture with an artwork representative of the same culture.

7.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Generates accurate statements about the functions (purposes) of particular artworks and the culture that produced them.

7.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains how art reflects the relationship between artists and their culture (e.g., geographic, political, religious, and economic).