Standards
Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance, experiences) and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.
Generate resourceDescribe, create, and/or perform a dance that expresses personal meaning and explain how certain movements express this personal meaning.
Generate resourceRespond to a dance work using an inquiry-based set of questions. Create movement using ideas from responses and explain how certain movements express a specific idea.
Generate resourceObserve a dance and relate the movement to the people or environment in which the dance was created and performed.
Generate resourceImprovise a dance phrase with a beginning, a middle that has a main idea, and a clear end.
Generate resourceChoose movements that express a main idea or emotion, or follow a musical phrase. Explain reasons for movement choices.
Generate resourceExplore suggestions and make choices to change movement from guided improvisation and/or short remembered sequences.
Generate resourceDemonstrate clear directionality and intent when performing locomotor and nonlocomotor movements that change body shapes, facings, and pathways in space. Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationships between body parts.
Generate resourceIdentify the length of time a movement or phrase takes (e.g., whether it is long or short). Identify and move on the downbeat in duple and triple meter. Correlate metric phrasing with movement phrasing.
Generate resourceSelect and apply appropriate characteristics to movements (e.g., selecting specific adverbs and adjectives and apply them to movements). Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness while dancing the movement characteristics.
Generate resourceDemonstrate a range of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements, body patterning, and dance sequences that require moving through space using a variety of pathways.
Generate resourceMove safely in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space.
Generate resourceRepeat movements, with an awareness of self and others in space. Self-adjust and modify movements or placement upon request.
Generate resourceDance for and with others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe movements in dances from a variety of genres or cultures.
Generate resourceUse context cues from movement to identify meaning and intent in a dance using simple dance terminology.
Generate resourceObserve or demonstrate dances from a genre or culture. Discuss movements and other aspects of the dances that make the dances work well and explain why they work. Use simple dance terminology.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceUse personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
Generate resourceDiscuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.
Generate resourceDiscuss how media artworks and ideas, such as media messages and media environments, relate to everyday life and culture.
Generate resourceInteract appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
Generate resourceExplore multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.
Generate resourceConstruct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic aesthetic principles, such as positioning and attention.
Generate resourceTest and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.
Generate resourcePractice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.
Generate resourceEnact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration, in media arts productions.
Generate resourceDemonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe presentation conditions and audience and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
Generate resourceDetermine the purposes and meanings of media artworks, considering their context.
Generate resourceDiscuss the effectiveness of components and possible improvements for media artworks, considering their context.
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 resourceDescribe how personal interests and experiences 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 resourceImprovise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.
Generate resourceGenerate musical patterns and ideas within the context of a given tonality (such as major and minor) and meter (such as duple and triple).
Generate resourceMusicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting patterns and ideas for music that represent expressive intent.
Generate resourceUse iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.
Generate resourceMusicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Generate resourceInterpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal musical ideas.
Generate resourceMusicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
Generate resourceConvey 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 resourceDemonstrate and explain 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 resourceDemonstrate knowledge of music concepts (such as tonality and meter) in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.
Generate resourceWhen analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using iconic or standard notation.
Generate resourcePerformers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate understanding of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) and how creators use them to convey 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 resourceApply established criteria to judge the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.
Generate resourceApply rehearsal strategies to address identified interpretive, performance, and technical 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 resourceDemonstrate 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 resourceExplain 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 resourceDescribe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music.
Generate resourceThrough their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Generate resourceDemonstrate knowledge of expressive qualities and how they support 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 resourceApply 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 resourceRelate character experiences to personal experiences in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceDetermine appropriate skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas to apply in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a nonfiction literary source in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourcePropose potential new details to plot and story in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIdentify ways in which voice and sounds may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to conceptualize scenery in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceContribute ideas and make decisions as a group to advance a story in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceIndependently generate multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceAlter voice and body to expand and articulate nuances of a character in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceDemonstrate the relationship between and among body, voice, and mind in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceContribute to group guided drama experiences and informally share with peers.
Generate resourceExplain how personal preferences and emotions affect an observer’s response in a guided drama experience or age-appropriate theatre performance.
Generate resourceIdentify causes and consequences of character actions in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceExplain or use text and pictures to describe how others’ emotions and choices may compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceDescribe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceUse a prop or costume in a guided drama experience to describe characters, settings, or events.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceCompare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.
Generate resourceRelate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Generate resourceMake art or design with various art materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.
Generate resourceExperiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
Generate resourceDemonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
Generate resourceDistinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.
Generate resourceAnalyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.
Generate resourcePerceive and describe aesthetic characteristics of one’s natural world and constructed environments.
Generate resourceInterpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.
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