Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers that are rhythmic and melodic.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.

Arrange songs in various ways.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 4th [...]

Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 4th grade.

Identify theme and variation, coda, D.S. (Del Segno), D.C. (Da Capo), and other forms when presented aurally.

Use invented or standard notation to transcribe increasingly difficult rhythms and melodies.

Describe the music performed and presented in 4th grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

In small groups, use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music.

Identify the timbre of non-western instruments.

Devise student created criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions

Use music vocabulary and aesthetic vocabulary to describe personal response to music.

Describe distinguishing instrumentation of music genres and styles from various cultures.

Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 4th grade.

Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 4th grade.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various 4th grade arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the 4th grade curriculum.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

Create and demonstrate vocal expression to support the playing of a character.

Improvise real and non-real characters.

Students observe dance movie to discover movements used in sports. Students will demonstrate sport movements and abstract the inherent movement. [...]

Students learn and perform dances from two countries.

Ask parents or some other adults about dances done in their community when they were younger. Ask if the person [...]

Students research information on a social dance of choice.

Students define and discuss the importance of habits, identify good health and safety practices, and discuss how they affect the [...]

Investigate and identify careers related to advertising.

Demonstrate the ability to create a dance based on the life cycle of a plant or animal.

Respond to a dance film by demonstrating the ability to create using another art from, and explain the connections between [...]

Sing and play in a small group with accurate pitch, intonation, rhythm, and technique within various music contexts.

Expand repertoire.

Sing and play with understanding, expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing and interpretation.

Sing a melody in a small group.

Blend timbres and match dynamic levels in the group in response to the cues of the conductor.

Play rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic instruments.

Perform with accuracy, rhythmic, and melodic patterns.

Play instrumental parts independently while other students sing a contrasting part.

Use a system to read quarter notes and rests, eighth notes and rests, half notes and rests, whole notes and [...]

Use a system to read pitch notation for a minor scale.

Recognize the basic expressive markings of music.

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic and melodic ostinati accompaniments.

Demonstrate basic locomotor skills through moving forward, backward, and sideways in both straight and curved lines to varied tempos.

Explore using different parts of the body to execute the same non-locomotor/axial movements in personal space. Use directional changes: forward, [...]

Demonstrate the ability to make shapes at low, middle, and high levels using selected locomotor and non-locomotor/axial movements.

Define and demonstrate an understanding of general space.

Respond in general space to tempo changes as dictated by a drum beat, changing direction as the tempo changes.

Isolate body parts. Continue working with single focus. Introduce multi-focus.

Using locomotor movements, demonstrate change of direction working with a partner holding one hand; two hands when the movement allows. [...]

Mirror movement of a partner.

With musical accompaniment, demonstrate the ability to make a dance sentence that has beginning, middle, and end in personal and [...]

Identify a movement concept and create a dance study.