Standards
Students make connections between/among the arts and disciplines outside the arts by…
Generate resourceStudents show understanding of how the arts shape and reflect various cultures and times by…
Generate resourceStudents approach artistic problem solving with an open mind and creative thinking by…
Generate resourceImprovising with instruments and voices based on poetry, stories, or in response to a variety of media.
Generate resourceIdentifying and using basic elements and principles of design (e.g., texture, pattern, primary and secondary colors).
Generate resourceSinging alone and in unison, using developmentally appropriate repertoire in rhythm, maintaining a steady beat.
Generate resourceCommunicating ideas, concepts, feelings from other disciplines (e.g., show understanding of music with illustration or movement or sound.)
Generate resourceReading and notating familiar symbols (e.g., quarter, eighths notes and quarter rests), through playing and singing.
Generate resourceSolving movement challenges involving one or more movement concepts alone or with a partner.
Generate resourceDemonstrating concepts of dance through copying movements, mirroring, leading, following.
Generate resourceResponding to teacher suggested solutions (e.g., Keep a steady beat; Try mixing yellow and blue.).
Generate resourceDemonstrating mature forms of walking, running, hopping, jumping, galloping, sliding, skipping while traveling forward, backward, sideward, diagonally, and turning in straight and curved pathways.
Generate resourceComparing a variety of purposes for making art (e.g., to tell a story, communicate emotion, beautify functional objects).
Generate resourceDance: show the beat with the body, high/medium/low, happy/sad<br /> Music: loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low, long/short<br /> Theater: cartoon, fantasy, play, acting, actor, the story<br /> Visual Arts: primary colors, secondary colors, vertical, horizontal line, texture, pattern, collage, portrait
Generate resourceDemonstrating ability to repeat sequence of 2-3 movements over time (e.g., Hokey Pokey, name game).
Generate resourceUsing elements of 2D and 3D design (e.g., 2D—mixing primaries to create secondary colors; 3D—forming a 3D object with texture).
Generate resourceIdentifying similarities and differences in genres (e.g., sculpture and painting; instrument and voice).
Generate resourceComposing using graphic and symbol systems, representing vocal and instrumental sounds and musical ideas.
Generate resourceUsing line in various media (e.g., pencil, marker, cut-outs, etc.) to create shape and image.
Generate resourcePlaying instruments, alone and with others, using developmentally appropriate literature and instruments, in rhythm, maintaining a steady beat.
Generate resourceMoving, drawing, describing, and singing/playing instruments in response to contrasting musical stimuli, (e.g., loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low, simple forms, duple/triple meter, long-short, timbre, major, minor).
Generate resourceDemonstrating the non-locomotor skills of bending, stretching, twisting, swinging, turning , pushing, pulling, swaying, lifting, falling.
Generate resourceAsking questions of the artist (e.g., I like that blue. How did you make it?).
Generate resourceAsking questions about your own work (e.g., I'm wondering how to make my trees look like they have bark.).
Generate resourceFollowing and reproducing two or three nonlocomotor and locomotor movement sequences to a beat that incorporates a change in tempo.
Generate resourceRecognizing and demonstrating qualities/dynamics/levels of movement (e.g., fast/slow, hard/soft, heavy/light, high/low).
Generate resourceInterpreting a story, piece of music, artwork, play, or learning experience through movement.
Generate resourceIdentifying how the arts have a relationship to family and/or community events and celebrations.
Generate resourceNaming and using different media, genre, and techniques (e.g., collage, printmaking, portrait, landscape, realism, horizon line).
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