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.

Illustrate 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 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.

Explore, improvise, discover, and invent movement to solve movement problems.

Demonstrate the ability to design a movement sequence using factors of the elements of time, space, and force.

Students will be introduced to the use of a camera to record movement and given an explanation of the use [...]

Demonstrate the ability to design a movement study of basic locomotor movements, and combinations of locomotor movements using movement elements.

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

Students attend a dance concert or are participants in a children's concert. Discuss the experience.

Demonstrate the ability to create a dance study to present to peers, then analyze and discuss the process used.

Demonstrate the ability to create a movement sentence and change same using selected elements of dance. Give reasons for choices [...]

Students learn two social dances, such as the twist and the waltz, and discuss the similarities and differences in terms [...]

Demonstrate control and safe use of a variety of art tools with environmental awareness.

Describe, discuss, and model the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Select, present, and evaluate personal artwork.

Apply materials and techniques to problem solve in the creation of art.

Create a composition using the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Examine how artists turn ideas into visual solutions.

Combine ideas, symbols, and experiences that express and communicate meaning.

Create artwork that aesthetically and creatively conveys an idea.

Design artwork using computers and electronic media to create original works of art.

Compare the elements of art used in personal artwork.

Examine how art expresses cultural traditions.

Highlight social trends that influence our emotional reactions to art.

Select a piece of personal artwork, critique it using art terminology, and make revisions.