Visual Arts - 3rd Grade

Visual arts provide opportunities for creativity and expression, and help develop problem-solving and small motor skills. Art lessons include class discussions, literature, games, demonstrations, historical reference, and integration of the core curriculum, playful practice, and reflection.

Elements of Art

• Color
• Shape
• Line
• Form
• Texture
• Value
• Space

Principles of Design

• Pattern
• Contrast
• Emphasis

Mediums

• Drawing
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Collage
• Ceramics
• Sculpture
• Textile arts
• Mixed media

Subject Matter

• Artists (contemporary and past)
• Styles
• Movements
• World Cultures
• Architecture
• Art history
• Art vocabulary

Skills, Strategies, Behaviors

• Employ creative thinking
• Creates original art that expresses their personal ideas
• Continued understanding of color mixing
• Recognize and name secondary colors
• Continued understanding of warm and cool colors
• Beginning understanding of tints, shades, and tones
• Beginning understanding of space and basic rules of perspective, foreground, middle round, and background
• Explore and utilize a variety of materials with increasing comfort and proficiency
• Improve skills in seeing, noticing details, and discussing artwork
• Understand that there are many different kinds of art
• Be able to identify and create a variety of lines and shapes
• Be able to identify implied and actual texture
• Gain continued exposure to different kinds of art
• Construct
• Cut
• Glue
• Draw
• Sculpt
• Paint
• Print
• Weave

Approaches to Learning

• Demonstrations
• Practice
• Experimentation
• Class discussions
• Literature
• Games
• Reflection (oral or written)
• Individual projects
• Group projects