Trees in art and nature

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.
  • Objective 1.03: Select color both for emotional appeal and realism.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following:
    • Photography - sun prints
    • Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software.
    • Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes.
    • 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools.
    • Printmaking - cardboard
    • Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software.
    • Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps.
    • Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.
  • Objective 2.04: Develop familiarity with specific media and processes.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.06: Name selected artist.
  • Objective 5.07: Name selected works by an artist.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.07: Express one's own thoughts and feelings about a specific artwork.

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.02: Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include:
    • Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting
    • Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting;
    • Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.
  • Objective 2.03: Increase skills with familiar materials.
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.04: Exercise flexibility when approaching a problem-solving situation.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art can serve more than one purpose and/or function in a given culture.
  • Objective 5.02: Make responses that are both knowledge-based and personal (objective and subjective).
  • Objective 5.05: Recognize an increased selection of works of art and artists.

Grade 5

• Goal 2: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.
  • Objective 2.01: Use additional art media, techniques and processes, which may include:
    • Drawing - charcoal
    • Printmaking - easy cut, mixed media, collographs
    • 3-D - wire
    • Photography - pin-hole cameras
• Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Objective 3.05: Critique his or her own work and that of others in terms of design principles.
• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.05: Recognize selected individual style characteristics of an artist.
• Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
  • Objective 6.01: Respond to questions relating to purpose and appropriateness of works including: Why do you think this artist painted this way? How do the materials the artist used help get across the idea of the artwork?

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 3

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use oral and written language to:
    • present information in a sequenced, logical manner.
    • discuss.
    • sustain conversation on a topic.
    • share information and ideas.
    • recount or narrate.
    • answer open-ended questions.
    • report information on a topic.
    • explain own learning.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama selections using self-selected topics and forms (e.g., poems, simple narratives, short reports, learning logs, letters, notes, directions, instructions).

Grade 4

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected and assigned topics and forms (e.g., personal and imaginative narratives, research reports, diaries, journals, logs, rules, instructions).

Grade 5

• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.07: Compose a variety of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using self-selected topic and format (e.g., poetry, research reports, news articles, letters to the editor, business letters).