Standards
Explore dance elements of body, effort, shape and space and organize movement choices to create a simple choreographic structure as part of the creative process.
Generate resourceMove in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal and general space.
Generate resourceExplore a variety of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by experimenting with changes in body, effort, shape and space.
Generate resourceRecognize a personal or emotional response to a dance work. Identify a social or cultural experience that relates to your response. Discuss how specific movements contributed to your response and relate to your personal experience.
Generate resourceExplore new movement choices through guided improvisational experiences and reflect on the process with others.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe or respond through movement to observed or performed dance movements from different genres or cultures.
Generate resourceDemonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body patterning, body shapes, directionality, and dance sequences that require moving through space.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceSelect a prop to use as part of a dance or explore the use of simple props to enhance performance. Demonstrate the use of limited production elements (for example, hand props, simple scenery, or media projections).
Generate resourceRecord the movements of a dance by drawing a picture or using a symbol (e.g., jump, turn, slide, bend, reach).
Generate resourceIdentify movements that capture an idea and explain the meaning or intent using simple dance terminology.
Generate resourceInvestigate the dance literacy skills of dance observation, engaging in dialogue, and utilizing symbol systems in one's learning.
Generate resourceMove safely in a variety of spatial relationships and formations with other dancers, sharing and maintaining personal space.
Generate resourceRespond in movement to a variety of stimuli (e.g., music/sound, images, symbols, tactile, text, objects).
Generate resourceUtilize two criteria to evaluate the strength of an artistic work. Discuss movements and other components of the dance that make the dance work well, and explain why they were effective.
Generate resourceDance for and with others in a space where audience and performers occupy different areas.
Generate resourceRole-play personal experiences through movement. Discuss observations made and identify the movements that expressed the personal experience.
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate directions for moving the body using locomotor and nonlocomotor movements in personal and general space (i.e. forward, backwards, sideways, up, down, turning). Make body shapes (i.e. straight, bent, curved) that change levels and vary in size. Move in straight, curved and zig-zagged pathways.
Generate resourceIdentify fast, moderate and slow movements. Recognize steady beat and move to varying tempi of steady beat. Identify and move on the downbeat of duple and triple meter.
Generate resourceDemonstrate movement qualities along with movement vocabulary (for example, use adverbs and adjectives that apply to movement such as a floating leap, a floppy fall, a jolly jump, and joyful spin). Move with opposing movement qualities (e.g. sudden/sustained, light/heavy, jerky/smooth). Identify and apply different characteristics to movements (e.g. slow, smooth, or wavy).
Generate resourceConnect movements that express an idea or emotion to create a short movement sequence.
Generate resourceDemonstrate knowledge of expressive attributes and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent (e.g. tempo, dynamics, mood, and emotion).
Generate resourceDemonstrate knowledge of musical concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance (e.g. meter and tonality).
Generate resourceWith an appropriate level of independence use suggested strategies in rehearsal to address interpretive challenges of music.
Generate resourceExplore various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g. songs of celebration, game songs, marches, T.V., movie, and video game sound tracks, dance music, and work songs).
Generate resourceUse notation to document personal or collective musical ideas (e.g. sequencing).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (e.g. meter and tonality).
Generate resourcePresent a final version of personal or collective musical ideas, utilizing elements of expression, to peers or informal audience.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas (e.g. beat, meter, and rhythm).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting musical ideas (e.g. patterns and ideas).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWith appropriate guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.
Generate resourceInterpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal music.
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understanding of musical concepts (e.g. physical, verbal, or written response-- understanding of musical concepts and how creators use them to convey expressive intent).
Generate resourceWith appropriate guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (e.g. major, minor, modal, and pentatonic) and meters (e.g. duple, triple, simple, and compound).
Generate resourceExplore relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. such as dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Generate resourcePerform music with appropriate expression and technique (e.g. posture, tone, and breath support).
Generate resourceExplore how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe how a variety of media artworks create different experiences.
Generate resourceDiscuss experiences of media artworks, describing their meaning and purpose.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explore teacher-identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the experience, and share results of presenting media artworks.
Generate resourcePractice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks (such as a narrated science animation).
Generate resourceTest and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.
Generate resourceIdentify the effective parts of and possible changes to media artworks, considering viewers.
Generate resourceDiscuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life (such as media messages and media environments).
Generate resourceUse personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.
Generate resourceInteract appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.
Generate resourceDemonstrate use of experimentation skills (such as playful practice, and trial and error) within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceConstruct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles (such as positioning and attention).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDetermine the purposes and meanings of media artworks, considering their context.
Generate resourcePractice roles to demonstrate basic ability in various teacher-identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as tool use and collaboration in media arts productions).
Generate resourceInterpret story elements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDemonstrate personal experiences in a theatrical work (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceSuggest multiple representations of a single object in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceAlter voice and body to expand and articulate nuances of a character in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceParticipate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting for a theatrical work.
Generate resourceContribute ideas and make decisions as a group to advance a story in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceIdentify the basic technical elements that can be used in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse a prop or costume in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) to describe characters, settings, or events.
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to discuss scenery in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceIdentify when artistic choices are made in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceCollaborate on a scene in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourcePropose potential new details to plot and story in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceAdapt and use sounds and movements in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, name and describe details in multiple settings in a dramatic play or a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, or creative drama.)
Generate resourceRelate character experiences to personal experiences in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceCollaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceDescribe how characters respond to challenges in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceIdentify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceCollaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceUse text and draw pictures to describe others' emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceCollaborate in the adaptation of dialogue in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceIdentify ways in which voice and sounds create or retell a story in guided theatrical experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceApply skills and knowledge from different art forms and content areas in a guided theatrical experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceCategorize artworks based on a theme or concept for an exhibit (such as bulletin board display, student art show, postcard mock gallery).
Generate resourceCompare images based on expressive properties (such as Albrecht Durer's calm "Hare", the energetic Energizer Bunny, the silly Bugs Bunny).
Generate resourceCompare cultural uses (such as honoring people, remembering events) of artwork from different times and places.
Generate resourceDemonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools, equipment, and studio spaces.
Generate resourceAnalyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in school lobby, on hallway bulletin boards, in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contributes to communities.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceBrainstorm collaboratively (such as contributing to and listening to various ideas) multiple approaches to an art or design problem (such as celebrations, cross-curriculum projects, school events).
Generate resourceExperiment with various materials, tools, and approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic ideas from diverse cultures) to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
Generate resourceInterpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and elements and principles.
Generate resourceDistinguish between different materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation and preservation (such as mounted on construction paper, elevated on a base, hung from the ceiling and including a label with student name and title).
Generate resourceUse art-specific vocabulary to describe one's natural world and constructed environments.
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