Grades K-4 Standards

National & SASD Standards covered in this lesson:

National Standards

Art K-4
NA-VA.K-4.1 Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
• Students describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses.
• Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.

NA-VA.K-4.3 Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
• Students select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

NA-VA.K-4.6 Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines

Science K-4
*Each of the artists featured in this lesson plan use animals as the primary subject of their photographs. While this exhibition does not have a direct connection to science, educators can develop research topics about animals and their habitats to establish this connection.

NS.K-4.3 Life Science: Organisms and their environments

NS.K-4.5 Science and Technology
• Abilities of technological design
• Ability to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans

SASD Standards
Art-K-2
• C1-Benchmark: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create visual works of art using manipulation, eye-hand coordination, construction and imagination; become aware of the elements of design and the principles of repetition and pattern.

• L1-Benchmark: Students will be able to introduce images from imagination, nature and/or their environment through brainstorming, sketching and observation.

Art 1
• J1-Benchmark: Students will be able to recognize how images convey stories about people, places and times.

Art 3-4
• A1-Benchmark: Students will develop an awareness of the elements of line, shape, color, and texture and the principles of repetition and pattern.

• C1 Benchmark: Demonstrate knowledge and skills to create works of visual art using problem solving, observing, designing, sketching and constructing. Explore the elements and principles of design in production.

• L1-Benchmark: Students will be able to explore problem-solving strategies such as sketching, brainstorming, and webbing.

Science K-4
*Each of the artists featured in this lesson plan use animals as the primary subject of their photographs. While this exhibition does not have a direct connection to science, educators can develop research topics about animals and their habitats to establish this connection.

• C.4.6 Communicate the results of their investigations in ways their audiences will understand by using charts, graphs, drawings, written descriptions, and various other means to display their answers.

• F.4.2 Investigate how organisms respond to both internal cues (the need for water) and external cures (changes in the environment).