Standards
Accurately demonstrate basic locomotor skills through straight and curved pathways including several directions.
Generate resourceAccurately demonstrate non-locomotor/axial movements such as bending, twisting, stretching, and swinging.
Generate resourceDemonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.
Generate resourceDemonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.
Generate resourceDemonstrate the following partner skills: leading, following, and mirroring.
Generate resourceCreate a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end, both with and without a rhythmic accompaniment. Identify each of these parts of the sequence.
Generate resourceImprovise, create, and perform dances based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.
Generate resourceCreate a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, and then vary it by making changes in the elements of dance: time, space, force, and energy.
Generate resourceObserve and describe actions such as skipping and galloping; and movement elements of time, space, force, and energy in a brief movement study.
Generate resourceObserve and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement, such as sports and everyday gestures.
Generate resourceTake an active role in a class discussion about interpretations of and reactions to a dance.
Generate resourcePresent their own dances to peers and discuss their meaning with competence and confidence.
Generate resourceExplore multiple solutions to a given movement problem; choose a favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.
Generate resourceObserve two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of one of the elements of dance by observing body shapes, levels, and pathways.
Generate resourceObserve and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement, such as sports and everyday gestures.
Generate resourceLearn and effectively share a dance from a resource in one's own community; describe the cultural and/or historical context.
Generate resourceStudents accurately answer questions about the role of dance in a specific culture and time period including why and in what setting people dance, and what the dances look like.
Generate resourceExplain how healthy practices such as nutrition and safety enhance the ability to dance, and cite multiple examples.
Generate resourceCreate a dance that reveals understanding of a concept or idea from another discipline, such as patterns in dance and science with the use of technology.
Generate resourceRespond to a dance using another art form; explain the connections between the dance and their response to it.
Generate resourceSing and play independently with accurate rhythm, pitch, intonation, with appropriate timbre, technique, and tempo within various musical contexts.
Generate resourceRecognize the basic expressive markings of music and demonstrate their understanding through performance.
Generate resourceSing from memory and play a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse cultures.
Generate resourceSing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.
Generate resourceDemonstrate ensemble techniques by blending timbre, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of the conductor.
Generate resourceDemonstrate technical skills on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic instruments.
Generate resourcePerform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.
Generate resourceCreate through exploration, improvisation, and composition, rhythmic and melodic ostinati accompaniments.
Generate resourceCreate through exploration, improvisation, and composition, answers in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.
Generate resourceCreate through exploration, improvisation, and composition, simple rhythmic variations and simple melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.
Generate resourceCreate and arrange songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.
Generate resourceUse a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising.
Generate resourceCreate and arrange music to accompany readings, dramatizations, or visual media.
Generate resourceUnderstand and respect that there are different responses to specific art works in a global community.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe a variety of sound sources, including orchestral, band, electronic, world instruments, and voices.
Generate resourceDevise criteria for objective evaluation of performances and compositions.
Generate resourceExplain, using music vocabulary, personal aesthetic response to music.
Generate resourceDescribe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from various historic periods and cultures.
Generate resourceDescribe how elements of music are used in examples from world cultures.
Generate resourceDemonstrate audience appropriate behavior for the context and style of music performed.
Generate resourceObserve and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common vocabulary used in the various arts.
Generate resourceCreate and demonstrate vocal expression to support the playing of a character.
Generate resourceAppraise artistic choices regarding character, environment, and situation that support the creation of a classroom dramatization.
Generate resourceCreate simple scenery, costumes, sound, and props in the dramatic process.
Generate resourceSuggest and implement alternative characters, settings, or events after viewing or participating in a performance.
Generate resourceDisplay skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast personal traits and characters traits derived from a text.
Generate resourceUnderstand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.
Generate resourceUnderstand the significance of theatre and its relationship to history and cultures.
Generate resourceDevelop criteria to evaluate the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how varied art forms are an expression of everyday life.
Generate resourceUse materials, techniques, media, technology, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences.
Generate resourceUse art materials and tools safely and responsibly with environmental awareness.
Generate resourceIncorporate the elements of art and principles of design to communicate ideas.
Generate resourceParticipate in the process and delivery of a final product for exhibition or presentation.
Generate resourceSynthesize the knowledge of materials, techniques, and processes to create artwork.
Generate resourceApply knowledge of how to use visual characteristics and organizational principles to communicate ideas.
Generate resourceExplore and understand prospective subject matter, ideas, and symbols for works of art.
Generate resourceSelect and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.
Generate resourceExplore and understand the impact of digital media and technology in the creation of artwork.
Generate resourceValidate the effects of visual structures and functions, and reflect upon these effects in personal work.
Generate resourceIdentify and defend various purposes for creating works of visual art.
Generate resourceUnderstand and respect that there are different responses to specific art works in a global community.
Generate resourceDevelop a sensitivity and understanding of how personal experiences can influence the development of artwork.
Generate resourceDefend the history of visual arts and specific relationships to various cultures and times.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.
Generate resourceDemonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts interrelate in making and studying works of art.
Generate resourceUnderstand and use comparative characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.
Generate resourceSynthesize connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.
Generate resourceUnderstand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Generate resourceRecognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.
Generate resourceUnderstand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Generate resourceUnderstand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Generate resourceUnderstand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Generate resourceRecognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.
Generate resourceRecognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.
Generate resourceRecognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.
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