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

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.

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.

Sing melodies with confidence in a large group.

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

Play rhythmic and chordal ostinati and melodies.

Expand the complexity of patterns.

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

Debate images of a past or present culture.

Describe how art is used in everyday life.

Investigate and identify visual art careers that relate to children.

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 [...]

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.

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

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

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

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

Observe that different art forms reflect upon the diversity of society.

Describe the variety of forms of live and recorded theatrical events.

Describe various types of multimedia forms used to share performances in everyday life.

Express various ideas and emotions through a variety of dramatic art forms reflecting life situations.

Identify and use various materials and techniques using a sequential process.

Demonstrate the safe use of a variety of materials, tools, and processes with environmental awareness.

Compare and explore elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas related to personal environment.

Use revision strategies to modify personal artwork and then mount it to enhance its presentation.

Demonstrate how materials, techniques, and processes can be used creatively to communicate ideas.

Combine the use of elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.

Understand and recognize how artists create and construct multiple solutions to visual problems in artworks.

Use symbols to create artwork that expresses and communicates meaning.

Compare and contrast how artists convey ideas through the creation of artwork.