Discuss how personal experiences influence the creation of art.

Examine customs or traditions celebrated by different communities.

Describe the materials and art forms used by particular cultures.

Recognize how the available materials and processes in a particular time or place can influence the art that is created.

Describe how art can be found in various environments.

Investigate and identify careers related to artists who work in specific media.

Investigate collaboration across art disciplines.

Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various 3rd grade arts.

Observe and identify cross-curricular connections within the 3rd grade curriculum.

Discuss the various rationales for using music in daily experiences.

Identify and describe different characters though vocal expression.

Dramatize real and non-real characters with prompting and side-coaching.

Illustrate characters, environments, and situations that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.

Paraphrase dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

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

Infer from a text, characters and setting in stories.

Analyze elements of dramatic structure for successful classroom dramatization.

Respond to and build upon ideas of others' personal preferences for stage design.

Collaborate to extend and add on to improvised stories.

Listen to constructive criticism and respond in a positive manner.

Further describe the character's wants and needs.

Compare and contrast emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and legends.

Identify the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

Share how varied multimedia forms illustrate performances in one family's life.

Recognize that the arts are an expression and record of human life.

Compare the use of various materials to communicate ideas and sensory experiences in an artwork.

Play instrumental parts independently while other students sing.

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

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

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

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

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

Create through exploration, improvisation, and composition, melodic embellishments for a familiar song.

Create an instrumental song with lyrics.

Use a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising appropriate to 3rd [...]

Add vocal, instrumental, and physical responses to a selection presented in 3rd grade.

Identify round and canon when presented aurally.

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

Describe the music performed and presented in 3rd grade by moving, drawing, or through other appropriate responses.

With teacher guidance, use music vocabulary to analyze, describe, and evaluate music of various styles.

Identify the timbre of specific instruments in string, brass, woodwinds, and percussion families.

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

Use music vocabulary to express personal reactions for musical works and styles.

Identify and describe distinguishing characteristics of contrasting styles.

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

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

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 and discuss the experience.

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