Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Media Arts

AE17.MED.4.7

Practice design thinking in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems within and through media arts productions.
EQ: What skills are required for creating effective media artworks and how are they improved? How are creativity and innovation developed within and through media arts productions? How do media artists use various tools and techniques?

Skills Examples

  • Choose and share a media arts product that shows a variety of academics, arts and media forms. Identify each element as the product is being shared.
  • In a creative team with assigned roles, use creative thinking to choose a media arts project that combines two art forms and has been revised at least twice. The project will reflect an original story with a clear purpose, message, and meaning.
  • Create a media arts product that addresses a specific problem in the community and revise the product at least twice.
  • In a creative team with assigned roles, use tools available in the classroom in both a standard and novel way for a media arts project that combines two art forms and has been revised at least twice.
  • Choose a media arts presentation to share with a younger group of students about a topic being studied social studies.
  • After sharing a media arts product with a younger group of students about a topic being studied social studies, debrief with the class about the results and improvements that could be made for the presentation.

Vocabulary

Media
  • books, print media (books, magazines, newspapers), television, movies, video games, music, cell phones, various kinds of software, and the Internet.

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
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