Links to The School District of Philadelphia’s Core Curriculum for Visual Arts, Grade 4

9.1 Production, Performance, and Exhibition of Visual Arts
Performance Content Descriptors:

• Identify the elements, principles, and expressive features in works of art.
• Solve visual arts problems by applying elements, principles, and expressive features of art.
• Know differences among materials, techniques, and processes.
• Select and use materials, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• Develop, use, and maintain an art vocabulary.
• Identify subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art from diverse cultures and historical periods.
• Select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

9.2 Historical and Cultural Contexts
Performance Content Descriptors:

• Identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
• Create art based on historical and cultural ideas.

9.3 Critical Response
Performance Content Descriptor:

• Understand that there are various purposes for creating works of art.

9.4 Aesthetic Response
Performance Content Descriptors:

• Describe how personal experiences influence the development of the individual’s artwork and the artwork of others.
• Understand and reflect on different responses to the same work of art.