Sing and play independently with accurate rhythm, pitch, intonation, with appropriate timbre, technique, and tempo within various musical contexts.

Sing from memory and play a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse cultures.

Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

Sing an ostinato.

Demonstrate ensemble techniques by blending timbre, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of the conductor.

Demonstrate technical skills on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic instruments.

Perform rhythmic and melodic patterns when presented aurally.

Perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

Use a system to read rhythmic notation in various meters.

Use a system to read pitch notation in various tonalities.

Recognize the basic expressive markings of music and demonstrate their understanding through performance.

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

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.

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

Create and arrange songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising.

Create and arrange music to accompany readings, dramatizations, or visual media.

Demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.

Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.

Demonstrate the ability to work effectively alone and with a partner.

Demonstrate the following partner skills: leading, following, and mirroring.

Create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end, both with and without a rhythmic accompaniment. Identify each of these [...]

Improvise, create, and perform dances based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

Use improvisation to discover, invent, and solve movement problems.

Create a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, and then vary it by making changes in the elements of dance: time, [...]

Begin to develop tracking skills with video.

Observe and describe actions such as skipping and galloping; and movement elements of time, space, force, and energy in a [...]

Observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement, such as sports and everyday gestures.

Take an active role in a class discussion about interpretations of and reactions to a dance.

Present their own dances to peers and discuss their meaning with competence and confidence.

Explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem; choose a favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.

Observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of one of the elements of dance [...]

Observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement, such as sports and everyday gestures.

Perform dances from various cultures with competence and confidence.

Learn and effectively share a dance from a resource in one's own community; describe the cultural and/or historical context.

Students accurately answer questions about the role of dance in a specific culture and time period including why and in [...]

Explain how healthy practices such as nutrition and safety enhance the ability to dance, and cite multiple examples.

Analyze and collaborate how artists express ideas through the use of visual culture, global perspective, and symbols in works of [...]

Analyze and reflect on the uses of subject matter, symbols, and ideas to express and communicate meaning in artwork.

Discuss and debate how artists from various cultures convey ideas differently.

Incorporate the uses of different technologies to show artistic expression through an original artwork.

Reflect and discuss the visual structures and functions used in personal artwork.

Recognize that artwork may serve functional purposes, be purely decorative, or serve multiple purposes.

Compare how global and cultural diversity elicits differing responses.

Compare and contrast two pieces of personal work.

Analyze how art can be a reflection of society and a response to real world experiences.

Describe how artwork communicates facts and/or experiences of various cultures.

Compare and contrast the visual elements contained in the artwork of particular cultures.

Evaluate the interrelationship between design, trends, events, and the economics of a culture.

Analyze various uses of art globally, in media, business, technology, and industry.