Hawaii State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

HI.1. Visual Arts: Understand and apply art materials, techniques, and processes in the creation of works of art and understand how the visual arts communicate a variety of ideas, feelings, and experiences

FA.4.1.1. How the arts are organized: Use the elements and principles of art and design, such as emphasis, proportion, complementary colors, positive and negative space, and depth, to communicate an idea or mood

FA.4.1.2. How the arts are organized: Use a combination of visual and performing arts to create an original artwork

FA.4.1.3. How the arts communicate: Use properties, personal response, and research to make informed judgments about artwork

FA.4.1.4. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Explain how art reflects life, culture, attitudes, and beliefs of the artist

HI.2. Music: Understand and apply elements of music and understand how music communicates ideas, feelings, and experiences across cultures

FA.4.2.1. How the arts are organized: Read simple staff notation (e.g., key signature, time signature, clef)

FA.4.2.2. How the arts are organized: Use notation of sixteenth notes and rests

FA.4.2.3. How the arts are organized: Sing or play an independent part of a song with two or more parts

FA.4.2.4. How the arts are organized: Identify musical forms (e.g., rondos), theme, and variations

FA.4.2.5. How the Arts communicate: Develop criteria used to analyze a musical performance

FA.4.2.6. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Compare and contrast musical styles from two or more cultures

HI.3. Drama and Theatre: Understand and apply the skills of acting, design, and technical theatre and understand the role of drama in various cultures throughout history

FA.4.3.1. How the arts are organized: Interpret a character's external motivations

FA.4.3.2. How the Arts communicate: Use the voice to express emotion

FA.4.3.3. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Evaluate theatrical traditions of various cultures

HI.4. Dance: Understand and apply elements of dance, appreciate how dance communicates meaning, and recognize its role across cultures and throughout history

FA.4.4.1. How the arts are organized: Combine dance elements to create a simple dance with a partner or small group

FA.4.4.2. How the Arts communicate: Create simple dances that communicate abstract ideas or feelings

FA.4.4.3. How the Arts communicate: Justify personal opinions and interpretations of works of dance

FA.4.4.4. How the arts shape and reflect culture: Describe how the dances of Hawaii reflect the Hawaiian history and culture