Art for the Young Child Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Art for the Young Child explores foundational art concepts, materials, and techniques appropriate for young learners, emphasizing the developmental stages of children's artistic expression. Students will examine age-appropriate methods for fostering creativity, fine motor skills, and aesthetic appreciation in early childhood settings. The course also covers planning engaging art activities, understanding multicultural perspectives, and assessing creative growth, all with the goal of supporting an inclusive and expressive classroom environment.
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Growing Artists Teaching the Arts to Young Children 6th Edition by Joan Bouza Koster
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Chapter 1: The Arts and Young Children
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Q1) The arts affect children's growing brains by:
A)activating spatial memory.
B)enriching the environment.
C)stimulating the senses.
D)all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following describes Gardner's multiple intelligence theory?
A)Everyone is born with a set level of intelligence.
B)There are eight or more biological and psychological potentials in every human being.
C)There are two main ways of learning-linguistic and mathematical.
D)all of the above
Answer: B
Q3) In arts activities, English language learners (ELLs) are integrated into the classroom community because they:
A)can learn how to act like English speakers.
B)develop more self-confidence and ways to communicate.
C)don't need to interact with their peers as much.
D)can sit and watch.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Nurturing Creativity
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Q1) The best way to provide children opportunities to practice using new materials or techniques in order to build arts skills is to:
A)provide regular access to activities and materials that have already been introduced.
B)offer a different arts activity every day.
C)repeat the same arts activities every day.
D)vary arts activities slightly every day.
Answer: A
Q2) the inner drive to accomplish something
A)knowledge
B)motivation
C)skill
D)immersion
E)incubation
F)production
Answer: B
Q3) List the six components of the creative process and write a one sentence description of each.
Answer: Knowledge: what individuals already know about what they are exploring Motivation: the inner drive to accomplish something
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Chapter 3: Artistic Development
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Q1) People often say that art, music, dance, or dramatic ability runs in families.What influences on children might increase the possibility that a child whose parents are artists, musicians, dancers, or actors will also show ability in that same art form? Explain how you would select arts activities for a child with a high level of artistic skills.
Answer: 1.Artistic parents may be more accepting and encouraging of the child's efforts.
2.There is more likelihood that the child will be exposed to experiences with that art form.
3.The child will be more likely to be taught arts techniques.
4.Creative behavior may be better understood and valued.
5.The parents may serve as artistic role models.
Q2) Which of the following is characteristic of normative development in infants?
A)They explore with mouth, hands, and feet.
B)They can match pitch.
C)They make believe.
D)They play in cooperative groups.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Awakening the Senses
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Q1) Discriminating sounds, pitches, and rhythms is the main function of what kind of perception?
A)visual
B)auditory
C)olfactory
D)gustatory
Q2) Knowing the elements of art is important because they:
A)provide a vocabulary for describing the arts.
B)make the arts more creative.
C)help artists work in different styles.
D)strengthen an artist's self-confidence.
Q3) Explain how you would use a children's book to develop sustained attention and focus and to introduce the elements of the arts.What are three wonderings you could say?
Q4) Visual perception is the ability to:
A)see with your eyes.
B)touch things you can see.
C)see, recognize, and mentally manipulate shapes, colors, and images.
D)judge weight and temperature.
Q5) Explain why using certain foods as sensory objects may offend some parents.
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Chapter 5: Coming Together Through the Arts
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Q1) Karen is planning to make a mural with her kindergartners.Which of the following should she do?
A)Before starting, prepare the wall where the finished mural will be displayed.
B)Ask the children for their ideas and write them on a chart.
C)Put out the materials and then stand back and observe what the children do.
D)Because they are older, have them work on the mural one at a time.
Q2) Four-year-old Max says that he is no good at singing.Which social-emotional skill should his teacher focus on developing so he will be more successful in school?
A)self-confidence
B)empathy
C)self-control
D)cooperation
Q3) Carrie observes four of her preschoolers pretending to be zoo keepers and building pens for their stuffed animals in the block center.This is an example of:
A)cooperative play.
B)solitary play.
C)parallel play.
D)organized play.
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Chapter 6: Creating a Place for the Arts
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Q1) Angela works at a day care center.She wants to introduce arts materials and settings that will help establish routine and order.She should:
A)make sure arts materials are never taken from their designated areas.
B)keep sharp tools on the teacher's desk and tell children not to touch them.
C)have children practice the correct way to use arts supplies and materials.
D)present all the musical instruments at one time.
Q2) The principal asks Theo to choose the color he would like his first-grade classroom to be painted.Which color would be his best choice?
A)a bright sunny yellow
B)a soft white
C)one wall green and one wall blue
D)lavender
Q3) Serena holds up a drawing with no name on it and asks the children, "Whose is this?"
What would have been a more respectful thing to do with the artwork?
A)Hang it up and label it as anonymous.
B)Discard it in the class recycling bin in front of the children.
C)Discard it in the recycling bin after the children leave.
D)Put the drawing in the reuse tray so someone else can draw on the back.
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Chapter 7: Introducing the Worlds Arts
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Q1) Which of the following would make an engaging arts artifact to share with young children?
A)a sports T-shirt
B)a maraca made from a gourd
C)a souvenir leather bookmark from Mexico
D)a postcard from India
Q2) Lynn, a preschool teacher, wants to buy several music CDs for her children to experience.She should select music:
A)that reflects the cultural background of the majority of the group.
B)that relates to a holiday.
C)that she likes.
D)from many diverse groups of people and cultures.
Q3) One day each week, a preschool teacher has her children lie on the rug and listen to complex pieces of classical music instead of the music they usually hear in school and in their homes.Why would she do this?
A)She wants to introduce them to different kinds of music.
B)She wants them to learn to play more complex music.
C)She wants their parents to think she has high standards.
D)She thinks it provides a good background for resting quietly.
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Chapter 8: Integrating the Arts Into the Curriculum
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of emergent curriculum?
A)The children find a strange bug on the playground.The teacher gets out magnifying lenses and books about insects, and invites an entomologist to visit the class.
B)The teacher decides that learning about insects would be a topic of interest to her students.She invites an entomologist to visit.
C)The teacher decides to design a unit about insects to meet state standards.She puts out books about insects.
D)The children find a cricket on the playground and make up a cricket game.They all run around pretending to .
Q2) Several parents ask Gail to explain why she uses the project approach.What should she say to them?
A)"It helps children become more accountable for their own learning."
B)"It requires children to select work that is a few notches higher than their skill level."
C)"It helps children learn by separating academics and play."
D)"Children get to study the information the teacher teaches them."
Q3) Make a concept web on a topic or integrating question of your choice.
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Chapter 9: Creating Visual Art
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Q1) Isabella wants to develop her first-grade students' ability to respond to artworks and at the same time address the Common Core ELA standard that asks children to identify similarities and differences in texts.Which of the following activities would best achieve her objectives?
A)Have children look at a print and make up a story about it.
B)Set up a printmaking center for the classroom.
C)Hang up prints the children made and have them compare them.
D)Teach the children how to make monoprints and splatter prints, then compare how it felt.
Q2) Richelle, a preschool teacher, wants to set up a computer in the art center.Which of the following would be most developmentally appropriate for her students?
A)an open-ended drawing program with limited menu options
B)a graphics drawing program with many drawing options
C)a slide show of famous artworks
D)a keyboard-controlled drawing program
Q3) List the three Common Core anchor standards for the visual arts and suggest a visual arts activity for each.
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Chapter 10: Making Music
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Q1) Sheera has a new non-English speaking student.Which music activity would help him learn English?
A)identifying the elements of music
B)playing an instrument in a rhythm band
C)learning to play the violin
D)singing simple, repetitive songs
Q2) Which of the following is true about musical development in infants and children?
A)Infants can recognize music of their cultures.
B)Unborn babies are incapable of listening or responding to music.
C)Children under the age of one cannot distinguish between music and other sounds.
D)Toddlers react in the same way to musically pleasant and dissonant sounds.
Q3) List the three national Common Core music standards and give an example of an activity that would address each one.
Q4) Describe at least four things that are important to do when teaching children a new song.
Q5) Explain how music helps children develop physically, socially, cognitively, linguistically, and emotionally.
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Chapter 11: Moving Creatively
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Q1) Which of the following movement starters is the best way to introduce preschoolers and older children to expressive creative movement activities?
A)"Fly like a bird."
B)"How do you think a bird would fly?"
C)"Use your arms for the wings."
D)"Flap your bird wings like this."
Q2) One of the most social and expressive creative movement experiences for young children is:
A)one-on-one activities.
B)exploration exercises.
C)paired sequences.
D)group movement sequences.
Q3) Which of the following should be done when incorporating cues in a dance activity for children?
A)Explain why a cue is needed for the performance and the purpose of it in the dance.
B)Demonstrate the cues and then begin the activity before they forget.
C)Invent new cues to match each new movement activity.
D)If children fail to follow the cues, change them to something simpler.
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Chapter 12: Nurturing the Imagination
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Q1) According to Piaget's levels of play, symbolic play is commonly demonstrated by children:
A)at the sensorimotor level of development.
B)in their concrete operational stage.
C)in their preschool age.
D)in middle school.
Q2) Gwen's second graders put on a skit about a hungry dog who wants a bone.Each time the child playing the dog gets close to the bone, it is moved away.Finally, the dog sits up and begs, and he is given the bone.This is an example of which dramatic elements?
A)timing and mood
B)focus and space
C)symbolization and sound
D)tension and contrast
Q3) Nyah wants to use guided imagery to develop a sense of story in her kindergartners.Which mind picture would you suggest she use?
A)Have children lay on their backs and imagine they are clouds.
B)Have children imagine they are going on a trip to China.
C)Have children imagine they are a drop of water in the water cycle.
D)Have children imagine they are eating an ice cream cone.
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