Grades

Standard

  • Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 3rd grade.

  • Perform music with a variety of expressive qualities, articulation, and tempo.

  • Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 3rd grade.

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

  • Students identify three personal goals such as executing turns, performing dance steps correctly, and the self confidence to create simple [...]

  • Identify safe/unsafe conditions, good health practices for the classroom, the school. Discuss how the findings affect their ability to create [...]

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance based on a favorite piece of music.

  • Respond to a dance film by demonstrating ability tocreate in another art form, and explain the connections between the dance [...]

  • Use developmentally appropriate singing voice, sing melodies accurately, and physically demonstrate macro and micro beat.

  • Continue to develop repertoire.

  • Sing and play expressively utilizing a broader continuum of dynamics and interpretation.

  • Select a human movement associated with a favorite sport or familiar work, execute the movement, and then change the movement [...]

  • Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

  • Students attend a dance concert and discuss the experience.

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

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study for presentation to peers.

  • Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

  • Demonstrate the ability to vary non-locomotor movements in a number of ways. Give reasons for choices made.

  • Expand the complexity of patterns.

  • Students are shown two diverse music films and discuss the similarities and differences in terms of one of the elements [...]

  • Students explore movements of a selected sport and abstract the inherent movement(s). Discuss the differences in human movement and the [...]

  • Students learn and perform dances from two countries. Selections should not involve dancing with a partner.

  • Ask parents or some other adults about dances done in their communities. Ask if the person will teach you the [...]

  • Students research information on a folk dance.

  • Copy movements of a leader in pairs and small groups.

  • Demonstrate the ability to make a dance sentence within personal space using music with a beginning, middle, and end.

  • Create a dance study by improvising movement using props, music, and poetry.

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

  • Use improvisation to explore time, force, and space using axial movements.

  • Debate images of a past or present culture.

  • Demonstrate the ability to make a movement sequence using the elements, time, space, and force.

  • Describe how art is used in everyday life.

  • Identify and use those parts of the video camera to be used to record movement.

  • Investigate and identify visual art careers that relate to children.

  • Demonstrate the ability to describe the action of basic locomotor movements, varying them by changing time space and force.

  • 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.

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

  • Explore non-locomotor/axial movements (in personal space) using different parts of the body. Use directional changes.

  • Explore making shapes at low, middle, and high levels by moving from one place to another.

  • Explore personal space along the body planes: forward, behind, sideward, upward. Change the base of the support; change the size [...]

  • Respond to drum beat at a moderate, slow, and fast tempo while moving in general space.

  • Continue discovering range of movement of selected body parts. Introduce isolation of body parts. Introduce single focus.

  • Explore locomotor movements one can execute while holding one hand; two hands with a partner. Explore axial movements relating to [...]

  • 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.

Grades

Standard

  • Describe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures, using music performed and presented in 3rd grade.

  • Perform music with a variety of expressive qualities, articulation, and tempo.

  • Demonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music presented and performed in 3rd grade.

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

  • Students identify three personal goals such as executing turns, performing dance steps correctly, and the self confidence to create simple [...]

  • Identify safe/unsafe conditions, good health practices for the classroom, the school. Discuss how the findings affect their ability to create [...]

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance based on a favorite piece of music.

  • Respond to a dance film by demonstrating ability tocreate in another art form, and explain the connections between the dance [...]

  • Use developmentally appropriate singing voice, sing melodies accurately, and physically demonstrate macro and micro beat.

  • Continue to develop repertoire.

  • Sing and play expressively utilizing a broader continuum of dynamics and interpretation.

  • Select a human movement associated with a favorite sport or familiar work, execute the movement, and then change the movement [...]

  • Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

  • Students attend a dance concert and discuss the experience.

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

  • Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study for presentation to peers.

  • Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

  • Demonstrate the ability to vary non-locomotor movements in a number of ways. Give reasons for choices made.

  • Expand the complexity of patterns.

  • Students are shown two diverse music films and discuss the similarities and differences in terms of one of the elements [...]

  • Students explore movements of a selected sport and abstract the inherent movement(s). Discuss the differences in human movement and the [...]

  • Students learn and perform dances from two countries. Selections should not involve dancing with a partner.

  • Ask parents or some other adults about dances done in their communities. Ask if the person will teach you the [...]

  • Students research information on a folk dance.

  • Copy movements of a leader in pairs and small groups.

  • Demonstrate the ability to make a dance sentence within personal space using music with a beginning, middle, and end.

  • Create a dance study by improvising movement using props, music, and poetry.

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

  • Use improvisation to explore time, force, and space using axial movements.

  • Debate images of a past or present culture.

  • Demonstrate the ability to make a movement sequence using the elements, time, space, and force.

  • Describe how art is used in everyday life.

  • Identify and use those parts of the video camera to be used to record movement.

  • Investigate and identify visual art careers that relate to children.

  • Demonstrate the ability to describe the action of basic locomotor movements, varying them by changing time space and force.

  • 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.

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

  • Explore non-locomotor/axial movements (in personal space) using different parts of the body. Use directional changes.

  • Explore making shapes at low, middle, and high levels by moving from one place to another.

  • Explore personal space along the body planes: forward, behind, sideward, upward. Change the base of the support; change the size [...]

  • Respond to drum beat at a moderate, slow, and fast tempo while moving in general space.

  • Continue discovering range of movement of selected body parts. Introduce isolation of body parts. Introduce single focus.

  • Explore locomotor movements one can execute while holding one hand; two hands with a partner. Explore axial movements relating to [...]

  • 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.