Grade 4

Reflections on Learning

Objectives

• Develop observational drawing techniques and use it in their work
• Create artwork for a specific audience
• Explore their personal interests, beliefs and values through art
• Investigate their own and others’ "multiple intelligences" as the starting point of their work
• Examine the contexts in which artist trading cards are made
• Reflect on their own and others’ creative processes to inform their thinking
• Use principles of design including emphasis and unity   
  

Artist Trading Cards (2018)

 Artist Trading Cards (2019) 

Change Through Migration

Objectives

• Design a personal theme or idea to use in their work 
• Explore hand building techniques to transfer their design onto a ceramic tile
• Sharpen their powers of observation
• Demonstrate control over ceramic tools, materials and hand building processes
• Identify a few contexts in which ceramic tiles have been made throughout history

Ceramic Tiles (2018)

Ceramic Tiles (2019) 

Perspectives on Identity

Objectives

• Use observation to design an abaya
• Show control making collage using textiles and a range of materials
• Investigate their own interests when designing
• Identify cultural and social influences in fashion design

Innovation in Technology

Students invent an art making machine. They keep an invention journal in their sketchbooks to develop their ideas, sketch designs and track their experiments and results.

Objectives   

• Keep a journal to record the process of designing an invention from concept to creation
• Use a range of approaches to drawing to communicate their ideas
• Compare, contrast and categorize drawings from a range of cultures places and times

Governing Systems

Objectives 

Creating 

• Draw a rectangular form using one-point perspective
• Carefully connect the orthogonal lines to the vanishing point
• Sharpen their powers of observation
• Demonstrate control when shading to create a range of values

Responding

• Provide constructive criticism when responding to artwork
• Use knowledge of perspective to make informed interpretations of artworks

Name in Perspective (2018)

Mosque in Perspective (2019)

Works in progress 2019

Relationships in Ecosystems

Objectives

• Create a 3D paper mask to demonstrate balance in ecosystems
• Design using the elements of form and texture and principles of balance and contrast
• Develop control over the tools and techniques used in 3D paper construction
• Investigate the affective qualities of masks
• Explain a few cultural contexts in which masks are made and presented