Standards
Identify symmetrical and asymmetrical body shapes and examine relationship between body parts. Demonstrate shapes with positive and negative space. Establish relationships with other dancers through focus.
Generate resourceDance to a variety of rhythmic patterns. Recognize and respond to tempo changes as they occur in dance and music. Perform movement sequences that show the ability to respond to changes in time.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceRevise movement choices in response to feedback from others to improve a short dance study. Describe the differences the changes made in the dance.
Generate resourceExperiment with a variety of self-identified stimuli and build content for choreography using several stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, observed dance, experiences, literary forms, natural phenomena).
Generate resourceDemonstrate safe body-use practices during movement, technical exercises and combinations that promote strength, flexibility, and endurance. Identify healthful eating habits.
Generate resourceInvestigate the dance literacy skills of dance observation and writing, understanding cultural influences, engaging in dialogue, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.
Generate resourceIdentify the main areas of a performance space using production terminology (for example, stage right, stage left, center stage, upstage, and downstage). Demonstrate the ability to adapt dance to alternative performance venues by modifying spacing and movements to the performance space.
Generate resourceChange use of energy/effort and dynamics by modifying movements and applying specific movement qualities to heighten the effect of their intent.
Generate resourceExplore a given movement problem by combining a variety of movements and manipulating the elements of dance.
Generate resourceCoordinate sequences and timing with other dancers, and refine spatial relationships that reflect an awareness of self, others, and the environment.
Generate resourceExplore and develop basic choreographic structures to create and modify movement material (e.g. devices, forms, principles).
Generate resourceExplain (ex: verbally, in writing, visually) how the movements in a dance communicate the main idea. Relate movements, ideas, and context to interpret their meaning using basic dance terminology.
Generate resourceDescribe and define the characteristics that make a dance artistic and meaningful using basic dance terminology, and develop, understand and apply artistic criteria for evaluating dance.
Generate resourceDemonstrate fundamental dance skills (for example, alignment, coordination, balance) when replicating and recalling patterns and sequences of locomotor and non-locomotor movements.
Generate resourceInvestigate an idea from another discipline of study and express the information through movement. Communicate how the movement expressed the ideas and what was learned from the experience through oral, written, visual or movement form.
Generate resourceAdjust body-use to coordinate with a partner or other dancers to safely change levels, directions and pathway designs through leading and following improvisational strategies.
Generate resourceDevelop a dance sequence that expresses and communicates an idea or feeling. Discuss the effect of the movement choices.
Generate resourceAnalyze and compare dance elements that elicit a specific personal response. Discuss ideas and feelings evoked by the dance, and how your response to the work relates to social and cultural experiences.
Generate resourceDepict the dance elements of body, shape, effort, and space in a dance sequence by drawing a picture map or using symbols (e.g. body actions, spatial pathways, relationships, dynamics, and rhythm).
Generate resourceDemonstrate, explain and describe, using basic dance terminology, the qualities and characteristics of style used in a dance from an established dance genre or one's own cultural movement practice.
Generate resourceIdentify, explore, and select a variety of production elements (costumes, props, music, scenergy, lighting or media) to heighten the artistic intent and audience experience of a dance performed in a chosen performance space.
Generate resourceExplain relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas (e.g. beat, meter, rhythm, harmony, and tonality).
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles and impact various musics plays in one's life and the lives of others.
Generate resourceGenerate musical ideas (e.g. rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.
Generate resourceApply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.
Generate resourceUse notation to document personal or collective rhythmic, melodic, and two- or three-chord harmonic musical ideas (e.g. chords).
Generate resourceDemonstrate and describe expressive attributes and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.
Generate resourceDescribe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.
Generate resourceDescribe how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.
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 resourceExplain why particular pieces of music are important to one's family or cultural heritage.
Generate resourcePresent the final version of personally or collectively created music to others and explain their creative process.
Generate resourceExplain how music listening is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.
Generate resourceDemonstrate selected and developed musical ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explain how musical concepts and contexts affect responses to music.
Generate resourceWith an appropriate level of independence rehearse to refine technique, expression, and identified performance challenges.
Generate resourceExamine and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and cultural experiences (such as news and cultural events)
Generate resourceAccess and use internal and external resources to create media artworks (such as interests, knowledge, and experiences).
Generate resourceCreate media artworks through the integration of multiple contents and forms (such as a media broadcast).
Generate resourceIdentify and apply basic criteria for evaluating and improving media artworks and production processes, considering context.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.
Generate resourceCreate content and combine components to convey expression, purpose, and meaning in a variety of media arts productions, utilizing sets of associated principles (such as emphasis and exaggeration).
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourcePractice fundamental creative and innovative abilities (such as expanding conventions) in addressing problems within and through media arts productions.
Generate resourceDetermine and compare personal and group interpretations of a variety of media artworks, considering their intention and context.
Generate resourceDevelop, present, and test ideas, plans, models, and proposals for media arts productions, considering the artistic goals and audience.
Generate resourceIdentify, describe, and differentiate how message and meaning are created by components in media artworks.
Generate resourceCompare qualities and purposes of presentation formats, and fulfill a role and associated processes in presentation and/or distribution of media artworks.
Generate resourceExamine, discuss and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering ethics, rules, media literacy, and social media.
Generate resourceConceive original artistic goals for media artworks using a variety of creative methods (such as brainstorming and modeling).
Generate resourceDetermine how elements and components can be altered for clear communication and intentional effects, and refine media artworks to improve clarity and purpose.
Generate resourcePractice fundamental ability in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills (such as formal technique, production, and collaboration in media arts productions) through performing various assigned roles in producing media artworks.
Generate resourceResearch and show how media artworks and ideas relate to personal, social and community life (such as exploring commercial and information purposes, history, and ethics).
Generate resourceDemonstrate how tools and techniques could be used in standard and experimental ways in constructing media artworks
Generate resourceIdentify the ways a theatrical work reflects the perspectives of a community or culture.
Generate resourceDevise original ideas for a theatrical work that reflect collective inquiry about characters and their given circumstances.
Generate resourceParticipate in defined responsibilities required to present a theatrical work informally to peers.
Generate resourcePropose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceIdentify effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.
Generate resourceIdentify physical qualities that reveal a character's inner traits in the imagined world of a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDiscuss and demonstrate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceInvestigate historical, global and social issues expressed in theatrical work.
Generate resourceList ways to develop characters using physical characteristics and design choices that reflect cultural perspectives in theatrical work.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDescribe how to make choices based on personal experiences in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceIdentify historical sources that explain theatrical terminology and conventions.
Generate resourceDepict how a character's inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a theatrical work
Generate resourceDiscuss and revise an improvised or scripted theatrical work through repetition and self-reflection.
Generate resourceAnalyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in preparation for a theatrical work.
Generate resourceUse movement and gestures to communicate emotions in a guided theatrical experience (e.g. process drama, story drama, creative drama).
Generate resourceExperiment with various physical choices to communicate character in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceCreate technical elements that occur in rehearsal for a theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).
Generate resourceRecognize how a character's circumstances impact an audience member's perspective in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDescribe the essential events in a story or script that make up the dramatic structure in a theatrical work.
Generate resourceDefine the roles and responsibilities of museum professionals (such as museum educator, curator, security guard, conservator, docent, exhibition designer); explain the skills and knowledge needed in maintaining and presenting objects, artifacts, and artwork.
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation (such as researching subject matter, techniques, the work of other artists) to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
Generate resourceDistinguish between relevant and non-relevant contextual information (artist's life and times) to support an interpretation of the mood, message or meaning of that artwork.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding
Generate resourceDevelop skills in multiple artmaking techniques and experiment with approaches (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures) through practice.
Generate resourceIdentify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society (such as religious art can illustrate a groups' beliefs, community murals can reflect concerns of the neighborhood, an advertising image can be persuasive).
Generate resourceCreate an artist statement using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.
Generate resourceCreate a work of art that reflects or is inspired by the natural and/or built environment in a new way.
Generate resourceUse art-specific vocabulary to compare how artworks made in different cultures reflect the times and places in which they were made.
Generate resourceDescribe and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.
Generate resourceCite evidence about how an exhibition in a museum or other venue (such as school lobby, bulletin board, local business) presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.
Generate resourceIdentify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery (such as the skulls and skeletons used in Day of the Dead festivals, dancing dragons used in Chinese New Year celebrations, broken chain as symbol of freedom).
Generate resourceDemonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.
Generate resourceDevelop a logical argument for safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork (such as debating or writing about the care and transportation of personal artwork, care of family heirlooms, unprotected Native American petroglyphs).
Generate resourceRecognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles (such as Cubist, Anasazi, Harlem Renaissance), genres (such as portrait, still life, landscape), and media.
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