The Arts · Year 4

Discover how pictures, words and sound work together to tell a media story.

⏱ 16 min · 12 questions

Make prints by stamping a shape over and over to create a pattern.

⏱ 16 min · 9 questions

Create drama by making up actions and words as you go, without a script.

⏱ 15 min · 8 questions

Combine movements in a chosen order to create your own short dance.

⏱ 16 min · 8 questions

Understand the difference between flat shapes and solid 3D forms.

⏱ 16 min · 8 questions

Group beats into bars and understand simple time signatures.

⏱ 16 min · 8 questions

Read a play script and understand dialogue and stage directions.

⏱ 15 min · 8 questions

Explore how musicians change loudness to add feeling to music.

⏱ 15 min · 8 questions

Use foreground, middle ground and background to show depth in a landscape.

⏱ 16 min · 8 questions

Explore qualities like sharp, smooth and bouncy to give dance feeling.

⏱ 15 min · 8 questions

Use shading to show light and dark and make drawings look 3D.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Follow how a tune rises and falls to see its melodic shape.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Create still group images that capture a key moment in a story.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Move through space using high, medium and low levels.

⏱ 16 min · 7 questions

Make some things look closer and others further away by overlapping shapes.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

One part 'calls' a musical phrase and another 'answers' it back.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Use voices and body sounds to create the world of a place, like a jungle.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Dance the same moves together, then start them one after another like a wave.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Roll clay into coils and stack them to build a small pot.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Discover how a repeating section returns to give a piece its shape.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Start the same movement at different times to make a ripple effect.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Plan voices, sound effects and music for a short audio story.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Use colours that are opposites to make art pop.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Tell instruments apart by the special quality of their sound.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Move around the stage so the audience can always see you.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Arrange dancers in lines, circles and other shapes.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Add white and black to one colour to make a range of tints and shades.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Hear how major sounds feel bright and minor sounds feel sad.

⏱ 13 min · 6 questions

Use pace, pause and emphasis to perform a poem with feeling.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Work with a group to build shapes using different levels together.

⏱ 14 min · 6 questions

Mix water with paint to create smooth and graded washes.

⏱ 14 min · 7 questions

Use the five-note pentatonic scale to invent simple melodies.

⏱ 14 min · 7 questions

Plan a short advertisement that names a product and tells viewers what to do.

⏱ 14 min · 7 questions

Move together in unison, then stagger the timing to make a canon.

⏱ 13 min · 7 questions