Standards
Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/ sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and identify the source.
Generate resourceExplore a variety of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by experimenting with and changing the elements of dance.
Generate resourceImprovise a series of movements that have a beginning, middle, and end, and describe movement choices.
Generate resourceChoose movements that express an idea or emotion, or follow a musical phrase.
Generate resourceExplore suggestions to change movement from guided improvisation and/or short remembered sequences.
Generate resourceFind an experience expressed or portrayed in a dance that relates to a familiar experience. Identify the movements that communicate this experience.
Generate resourceDiscuss observations from a story. Identify ideas for dance movement and demonstrate the big ideas of the story.
Generate resourceWatch and/or perform a dance from a different culture and discuss or demonstrate the types of movement danced.
Generate resourceDemonstrate locomotor and nonlocomotor movements that change body shapes, levels, and facings. Move in straight, curved, and zigzagged pathways individually and with others. Find and return to place in space.
Generate resourceRelate quick, moderate and slow movements to duration in time. Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat.
Generate resourceDemonstrate movement characteristics along with descriptive vocabulary (e.g., use adverbs and adjectives that apply to movement).
Generate resourceDemonstrate a range of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements, body patterning, body shapes, and directionality
Generate resourceMove safely in general space through a range of activities and group formations while maintaining and changing personal space.
Generate resourceDance for others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe observed or performed dance movements from a specific genre or culture.
Generate resourceSelect movements from a dance that suggest ideas and explain how the movement captures the idea using simple dance terminology.
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate several movements in a dance that attracted attention. Describe the characteristics that make the movements interesting and talk about why they were chosen.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceUse personal experiences, interests, and models in making media artworks.
Generate resourceDiscuss and describe media artworks in everyday life, such as popular media and connections with family and friends.
Generate resourceInteract safely and appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering rules and fairness.
Generate resourceWith guidance, identify and use ideas to form plans and/or models for media arts productions.
Generate resourceCreate, capture, and assemble media arts content for media arts productions, identifying basic aesthetic principles, such as pattern and repetition.
Generate resourcePractice and identify the effects of making changes to the content, form, or presentation, in order to refine and complete media artworks.
Generate resourceCombine varied academic, arts, and media content in media artworks, such as an illustrated story
Generate resourceDescribe and demonstrate various artistic skills and roles, such as technical steps, tool use, planning, and collaborating, in media arts productions.
Generate resourceDescribe and demonstrate basic creative skills, such as varying techniques, within media arts productions.
Generate resourceWith guidance, discuss presentation conditions and audience, and perform a task in presenting media artworks.
Generate resourceWith guidance, identify how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
Generate resourceWith guidance, identify the meanings of a variety of media artworks and their context.
Generate resourceIdentify the effective components and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceMusicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, discuss how personal interests connect to creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceMusicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceThe creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, create musical ideas (such as answering a musical question) for a specific purpose.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters (such as duple and triple).
Generate resourceMusicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas that represent expressive intent.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to document and organize personal musical ideas.
Generate resourceMusicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, discuss and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to refine personal musical ideas.
Generate resourceMusicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, convey expressive intent for a specific purpose by presenting a final version of personal musical ideas to peers or informal audience.
Generate resourcePerformers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.
Generate resourceAnalyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate knowledge of music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour) in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns using iconic or standard notation.
Generate resourcePerformers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate and describe music’s expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) that support the creators’ expressive intent.
Generate resourceTo express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to address interpretive challenges of music.
Generate resourceMusicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, perform music for a specific purpose with expression.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the purpose.
Generate resourceIndividuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, identify and demonstrate how personal interests and experiences influence musical selection for specific purposes.
Generate resourceResponse to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate and identify how specific music concepts (such as beat or pitch) are used in various styles of music for a purpose.
Generate resourceThrough their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, demonstrate and identify expressive qualities that reflect creators’ and performers’ expressive intent.
Generate resourceThe personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Generate resourceWith limited guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceConnect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
Generate resourceConnect and demonstrate the relationships between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
Generate resourceGenerate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceSelect, develop, and use standard notation and audio/ video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions and three or more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourcePerform final versions of improvisations, compositions, and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.
Generate resourceExplain the criteria used when selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual or small group performances that include melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDescribe in interpretations the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.
Generate resourcePerform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).
Generate resourceApply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context (social, cultural, and historical).
Generate resourceCompare passages in musical selections and explain how the elements of music and context (social, cultural, or historical) inform the response.
Generate resourceExplain and support possible interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context (personal, social, and cultural), (when applicable) the setting of the text, and outside sources.
Generate resourceDevelop and apply teacher provided and established criteria based on personal preference, analysis, and context (personal, social, and cultural) to evaluate individual and small group musical selections.
Generate resourceIdentify character emotions in a guided drama experience and relate it to personal experience.
Generate resourceApply skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceUse active listening skills to participate in and observe a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify similarities and differences in stories from one’s own community in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a fictional literary source in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourcePropose potential choices characters could make in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify ways in which gestures and movement may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to conceptualize costumes and props in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceContribute to the development of a sequential plot in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and supports, participate in group decision making in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify similarities and differences in sounds and movements in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate to imagine multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceDescribe a story’s character actions and dialogue in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceUse body, face, gestures, and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and supports, identify and understand that physical movement is fundamental to guided drama experiences.
Generate resourceWith prompting and supports, identify technical theatre elements that can be used in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and supports, use movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided drama experience and share with others.
Generate resourceExplain preferences and emotions in a guided drama experience or ageappropriate theatre performance.
Generate resourceExplain or use text and pictures to describe how personal emotions and choices compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the experiences of characters in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify props and costumes that might be used in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceIdentify times, places, and reasons for which students make art outside of school.
Generate resourceUnderstand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceEngage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with various arts materials.
Generate resourceUse observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
Generate resourceDemonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
Generate resourceIdentify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.
Generate resourceAsk and answer questions such as where, when, why, and how artwork should be prepared for presentation or preservation.
Generate resourceIdentify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.
Generate resourceSelect and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one’s self and others.
Generate resourceInterpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the mood and characteristics of form.
Generate resourceClassify artwork based on different reasons for preferences using learned art vocabulary.
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