Standard: Fine Arts

27 Jan 2023

Arts in the Natural World Series: Clay

August-October 31; March 15-June

From the creek to the art studio, this program explores all things clay! Students will learn the procedures of hiking to the creek to harvest clay from natural creek beds and processing it in an art studio. This is a hands-on program that includes an uphill hike (weather permitting), so come prepared to get your hands dirty and your body moving! Programs in the Arts in the Natural World series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program only operates in warmer months (August-October 31; March 15-June).

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.4.1PE Engage and persist in artistic risk-taking.
  • VA.4.2PE Select and vary materials, tools, and processes to achieve innovative outcomes.

Ohio Science Standards:

  • ESS.4.1 Earth’s surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.
  • NGSS: 4-ESS1-1: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Vocabulary:

clay, natural resource, hand building, wheel throwing, stages of clay

25 Feb 2022

Performing Arts in Action

August-June

The Performing arts come to life through engagement between the performers and the audience. At Greenacres Arts Center, you can try out both roles. Some types of performances have movement and dance, some have actors and a set, and others have instruments and music. All you need to succeed at Greenacres is an open mind and a pinch of bravery! This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.6.7.2CR Create a movement study using stimuli (music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience).
  • DN.6.7.8.2PE Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness of the expressive body as it moves and feels in relation to the elements of dance.
  • MUS.6.6PE Maintain simple, four- and eight-beat rhythmic ostinati with a recorded accompaniment.
  • TH.6.6CR Engage in ensemble-building activities to build character, emotion, mood, and tone.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Vocabulary:

entertainment, ensemble, accompaniment, choreography

25 Feb 2022

The Artist’s Tool Box

August-June

Utilize an exclusive rotating exhibition at Greenacres Arts Center to create one-of-a-kind pieces through experimentation with the 5-step creative process: preparation, incubation, illumination, evaluation, and verification (similar to the scientific method). This program will feature artworks made by local artists who were inspired by Greenacres. This program is easily customizable for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.3CO Link observations, life experiences, and imagination for personal and creative expression.
  • VA.6.2CR Brainstorm and experiment independently with ideas.
  • DN.7.2CR Create movement studies using a variety of stimuli (music, observed dance, literary forms, notation, natural phenomena, personal experience).
  • MUS.6.4RE Create interpretations of music via dance, drama, and visual art using appropriate vocabulary.
  • TH.6.5CE Compare and contrast the creative processes of other art forms (e.g., dance, music, visual and media arts) to those of drama and theatre.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.7.7 Analyzing individual and group perspectives is essential to understanding historic and contemporary issues. Opportunities for civic engagement exist for students to connect real-world issues and events to classroom learning.

 

    Vocabulary:

    process, experimentation, inspiration, exhibition

    25 Feb 2022

    Entertainment and Expression

    August-June

    Art and music have an important and long-lasting relationship with entertainment. Join us as we explore the many ways that art and music cross disciplines. This program places a strong emphasis on the art of sound and its role in the film industry. This program is easily adaptable to suit 6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.6.2PE Discover and articulate how the media forms of the day use art and images to communicate messages and meaning
    • MU.6.6CE Describe roles and skills musicians assume in various cultures and settings.
    • MU.6.4RE Describe ways that music relates to other art forms using appropriate terminology.

    Ohio English Language Standards:

    • SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

    Vocabulary:

    Foley Artist, improvise, entertainment, experiment, storyboard, film score

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