Design and participate in community improvement projects that help or inform others.

Identify the opportunity cost involved in a consumer decision.

Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic wants of consumers.

Describe the natural, human, and capital resources needed for production of a good or service in the community.

Use components of culture to describe diversity in the local community.

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among years and decades using a timeline of local community events.

Examine different perspectives of the same event in a community and explain how and why they are different.

Explain how individuals and groups have made significant historical changes.

Describe changes in the local community over time.

Describe how community members responded to a problem in the past.

Construct a historical narrative about the history of the local community from a variety of sources.

Construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and physical characteristics of place.

Use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location, and using distance, [...]

Use maps to describe the location of the local community within the state of Michigan in relation to other significant [...]

Compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community with those of another community.

Describe how the local community is part of a larger region.

Describe land use in the community.

Describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community.

Investigate and identify visual art careers that relate to children.

Identify similarities among the arts including vocabulary, elements of art, and principles of design.

Demonstrate connections between the visual arts and other curriculum through student artwork.

Discuss the subject matter of artwork from particular cultures at specific times.

Debate images of a past or present culture.

Describe how art is used in everyday life.

Use revision strategies to modify personal artwork and then mount it to enhance its presentation.

Demonstrate how materials, techniques, and processes can be used creatively to communicate ideas.

Combine the use of elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Understand and recognize how artists create and construct multiple solutions to visual problems in artworks.

Use symbols to create artwork that expresses and communicates meaning.

Compare and contrast how artists convey ideas through the creation of artwork.

Demonstrate how artwork can be created using computers and electronic media as a tool for creative expression.

Develop a visual vocabulary.

Recognize that art is created to fulfill personal and/or social needs.

Observe that different art forms reflect upon the diversity of society.

Share personal experiences and preferences in response to works of art.

Describe the variety of forms of live and recorded theatrical events.

Evaluate personal artwork using art terminology.

Describe various types of multimedia forms used to share performances in everyday life.

Reflect on how art expresses ideas, feelings, and opinions.

Express various ideas and emotions through a variety of dramatic art forms reflecting life situations.

Compare symbols, trademarks, icons, emblems, and other visual motifs in various cultures.

Identify and use various materials and techniques using a sequential process.

Demonstrate the safe use of a variety of materials, tools, and processes with environmental awareness.

Compare and explore elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas related to personal environment.

Paraphrase dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

Manipulate simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.

Describe the characters and setting in stories.

Convey elements of character, setting, and events after reading a story or script (The Five Ws).

Reflect upon personal preferences of music, sound, movement, dance, and design in the classroom dramatizations.

Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.