Standards
Recognize and name an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing dance and relate it to a personal experience or feelings.
Generate resourceObserve a work from other art forms (visual art, music, theater). Describe and then express through movement something of interest about these art forms. Ask questions for discussion concerning these art forms.
Generate resourceDescribe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed using limited dance terminology.
Generate resourceRespond in movement to a variety of sensory stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, symbols, observed dance) using different body parts and the whole body.
Generate resourceExplore different ways to do basic locomotor and nonlocomotor movements by manipulating various elements of dance.
Generate resourceExpress an idea, feeling, or image through improvised and learned movement moving alone, with a partner, and in groups.
Generate resourceApply suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences and learned movement.
Generate resourceDepict dance movement from various sources/styles by drawing a picture or using a symbol.
Generate resourceExplore the element of space by making still and moving body shapes that show lines (for example, straight, bent, and curved), change levels, and vary in size (large/small). Join with others to make a circle formation and work with others to change its dimensions.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and identify the element of time using tempi contrasts with movements that match to tempo of sound stimuli.
Generate resourceIdentify and apply different characteristics to movements using the element of force (for example slow, smooth, or wavy).
Generate resourceDemonstrate sameside and cross-body locomotor and non-locomotor/axial movements, body patterning movements, and body shapes.
Generate resourceMove safely in general space and start and stop on cue during activities, group formations, and creative explorations while maintaining personal or shared space.
Generate resourceIsolate and move body parts in relation to other body parts and repeat and recall movements upon request.
Generate resourceDemonstrate or describe observed or performed dance movements using dance elements.
Generate resourceFind a movement that was noticed in a dance. Demonstrate the movement that was noticed and explain why it attracted attention.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceImagine and predict how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal musical choices.
Generate resourceUtilize research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.
Generate resourceConsistently demonstrate and apply life skills developed in music studies and activities such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when performing music.
Generate resourceIdentify and practice life skills developed in music studies and activities such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.
Generate resourceIdentify and demonstrate individual preference for music that is performed and/or listened to in daily life.
Generate resourceIdentify various uses of music in daily life and describe the characteristics that make music suitable for a specific use.
Generate resourceExplore and evaluate personal benefits of performing and/or listening to music and how each can enrich one's life.
Generate resourceExplore and describe the role of music and the arts in developing an empathic society through music that is performed and/or listened to in daily life.
Generate resourceDiscuss and debate the nature of music appreciation and justify music's value to society.
Generate resourceDemonstrate ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated within the performed music.
Generate resourceRecognize the characteristic elements of other art forms and analyze how they are combined with performed music.
Generate resourceExplore ways in which performed music connects with math, English/language arts, social studies, and science.
Generate resourceDiscover, identify, and explore how performed music connects to other arts and humanities.
Generate resourceExplore and demonstrate ways in which performed music connects with math, English/language arts, social studies, and/or science.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and connect how the principles of performed music relate to other arts.
Generate resourceExplain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated within the performed music.
Generate resourceCompare and describe how the characteristic elements of music and the other arts are used to depict and/or transform events, scenes, emotions, and/or ideas in performed music.
Generate resourceConsistently recognize and apply appropriate genre and style and understand composer and historical background information in performed music being studied.
Generate resourceParticipate in an ensemble that demonstrates an understanding and appreciation of music throughout history, from various cultures and within the local community.
Generate resourceDiscuss and explore genre, style, composer, and historical background information in performed music.
Generate resourceDiscuss the roles of various ensembles throughout history and discuss opportunities for participation in their own community.
Generate resourceBegin to demonstrate appropriate genre and style, while understanding composer, and historical background information in performed music.
Generate resourceExplore the roles of various ensembles throughout history, culture and opportunities for participation in the community.
Generate resourceDemonstrate and apply appropriate genre and style and understand historical background information in performed music being studied.
Generate resourceResearch the roles of various ensembles throughout history, from various cultures and within the local community.
Generate resourceUsing traditional music notation, including common diacritical and expressive markings, students will accurately notate the rhythm, melody, harmonic structure, and form of three and four chord songs that are aurally perceived and/or audiation in Western and Non-Western music style.
Generate resourceUse gesture, movement, and other visual representations to represent pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and short melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.
Generate resourceUse gesture, movement, other visual representations, and both traditional and nontraditional music notation to represent pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and short melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.
Generate resourceUsing traditional music notation, including common diacritical and expressive markings, students will accurately notate rhythmic and melodic motifs and melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.
Generate resourceUse standard and/or nontraditional notation to create songs in a variety of meters that include accurate chord progressions and melodic/rhythmic phrases.
Generate resourceAccurately arrange an advanced melody of their choice, including an accompaniment, and notate parts for their ensemble using traditional or electronic sources.
Generate resourceCreate and share varied, personally-developed musical works (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes and contexts.
Generate resourceCreate and notate rhythms and melodies (four to eight measures) in simple and/or compound meters using either traditional or nontraditional notation.
Generate resourcePlan and arrange an accompaniment to a provided four measure melody which outlines a simple chord progression.
Generate resourceCreate and share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceUse standard and nontraditional notation to create simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and two-chord harmonic musical ideas.
Generate resourceArrange a given part song by reassigning voice or instrumentation for each part using traditional or electronic sources.
Generate resourceCreate and share personally developed melodies and rhythmic passages (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceUse standard and nontraditional notation to create rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences that involve chord progressions.
Generate resourceArrange an intermediate melody and provide an accompaniment that demonstrates an effective beginning, middle, and ending using traditional or electronic sources.
Generate resourceCreate and share personally developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.
Generate resourceShare varied, personally developed musical works (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes and contexts.
Generate resourceShare personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives (individually or as an ensemble) that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceImprovise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect the characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceShare personally developed melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.
Generate resourceImprovise ideas for melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that reflect the characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceShare personally developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions (individually or as an ensemble) that address identified purposes.
Generate resourceImprovise ideas for arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that reflect the characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.
Generate resourceAudiate and speak or sing music with a variety of voicings in multiple clefs, major and minor keys, and various meters using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and perform major/three forms of minor scales, all intervals, advanced rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture, traditional, and non-standard music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and speak or sing music written in the clef appropriate for their own voice/instrument and in major keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture, and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and perform basic scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and speak or sing music written in appropriate clefs, major and minor keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and perform intermediate level scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and speak or sing music written in appropriate clefs, major and minor keys, and simple or compound meter using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceAudiate and perform advanced scales, intervals, rhythmic and melodic patterns using gesture and/or traditional music notation.
Generate resourceListen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Describe and analyze instrumentation, texture, compositional devices, form, style, and genre.
Generate resourceJustify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including reference to other art forms
Generate resourceDevelop and justify evaluations of music, programs of music, and performances based on criteria, personal decision-making, research, and understanding of contexts.
Generate resourceListen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Describe style and genre, and compositional devices.
Generate resourceExplore interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.
Generate resourceListen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Explore instrumentation, compositional devices, form, style, and/or genre.
Generate resourceExplain interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.
Generate resourceRecognize and describe works and performances based on personally or collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.
Generate resourceListen to ensembles performing appropriate repertoire. Identify and describe instrumentation, texture, compositional devices, form, style, and genre.
Generate resourceExplain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and varied researched sources.
Generate resourceEvaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally and collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure and context.
Generate resourceExpress rhythmic patterns, melodic contour, harmonic progression, and expressive elements in a variety of meters and tonalities and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.
Generate resourceExpress differences in musical sounds that are higher or lower, faster or slower, louder or softer, and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.
Generate resourceExpress rhythmic patterns in a variety of meters and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.
Generate resourceExpress rhythmic patterns, melodic contour, and harmonic progression in a variety of meters and tonalities and demonstrate them through movement, body percussion, and/or conducting.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.
Generate resourceCreate a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relations between music, the other arts and disciplines outside the arts.
Generate resourceCreate a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Generate resourcePerform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.
Generate resourceListen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.
Generate resourcePerform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory, and written notation.
Generate resourceListen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Be able to explain proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing advanced musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.
Generate resourceChoral: Demonstrate consistently the concepts of vocal health within warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.
Generate resourceChoral: Consistently and accurately sing alone or in ensembles, accompanied by an a cappella, historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions in a variety of languages, and using traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Begin to demonstrate proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing beginning musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Begin to sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.
Generate resourceChoral: Explore, using proper vocal technique and expand vocal range through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.
Generate resourceChoral: Sing literature representing a variety of vocal styles expressively, utilizing appropriate dynamic contrast, phrasing, and articulation alone or in ensembles, from a score and from memory.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Demonstrate and begin to identify proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Sing intermediate musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.
Generate resourceChoral: Demonstrate, using proper vocal technique and expand vocal range through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.
Generate resourceChoral: Sing alone or in ensembles, historical and contemporary repertoire accompanied from Western and non-Western traditions and a cappella and with movement or body percussion when appropriate, to enhance authentic performance.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Demonstrate, identify, and apply proper vocal technique including good breath control, pitch, diction (choral only), tone quality, and posture.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Appropriate to the ensemble, students will sing medium advanced musical selections, scales, and intervals using note names, solfège, syllables, or numbers and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceChoral and Instrumental: Sing expressively with attention to blend, balance, dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.
Generate resourceChoral: Explore the concepts of vocal health and how they affect singing through warm-ups, breathing exercises, and appropriate repertoire.
Generate resourceChoral: Accurately sing alone or in ensembles, accompanied by an a cappella historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions in a variety of languages, and using traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourceConsistently play and monitor correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.
Generate resourceExamine, evaluate, and critique, using music reading skills where appropriate, how the structure and context impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.
Generate resourcePlay musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in advanced level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceInstrumental: Consistently and accurately play alone or in ensembles historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions using traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourcePlay and become aware of correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.
Generate resourceDemonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.
Generate resourcePlay musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance with beginning level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceInstrumental: Play literature representing a variety of styles expressively, utilizing appropriate dynamic contrast, phrasing, and articulation alone or in ensembles, from a score and from memory.
Generate resourcePlay and identify correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.
Generate resourceDemonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theory-based and structural aspects of musical works impact and inform prepared or improvised performances.
Generate resourcePlay musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in moderate level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceInstrumental: Play alone or in ensembles, historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions.
Generate resourcePlay and demonstrate correct posture, characteristic tone quality, accurate tuning and intonation, good breath support, proper bowing, and/or correct hand position.
Generate resourceDocument and demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how compositional devices employed and theory based and structural aspects of musical works may impact and inform prepared and improvised performances.
Generate resourcePlay musical selections with accurate pitch, articulation, rhythm, and appropriate tempo, dynamics, and balance in medium-advanced level music and demonstrate sight reading at an appropriate level.
Generate resourceInstrumental: Accurately play alone or in ensembles historical and contemporary repertoire from Western and non-Western traditions using traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourceExplore how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions, and discuss personal preference for different musical works.
Generate resourceIdentify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.
Generate resourceApply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed.
Generate resourceCreate movement patterns and describe their relationships to audiation and/or aurally perceived songs.
Generate resourceUtilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to represent simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns of rhymes and songs.
Generate resourceUtilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to demonstrate simple melodies and melodic patterns of rhymes and songs.
Generate resourceImprovise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.
Generate resourceAudiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities.
Generate resourceDemonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary.
Generate resourceApply learned criteria to perceive accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.
Generate resourceUse locomotor and non-locomotor movements to demonstrate and maintain a consistent steady beat in both simple and compound meters.
Generate resourceIdentify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.
Generate resourceListen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
Generate resourceCreate a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Generate resourceListen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.
Generate resourceConnect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.
Generate resourcePerform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.
Generate resourcePerform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.
Generate resourceCreate a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation.
Generate resourceCreate a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated and aurally perceived music.
Generate resourceSing independently and in groups using head voice and appropriate posture, with accurate pitch and rhythm.
Generate resourceAccurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique.
Generate resourceEcho and read a variety of rhythmic and/or melodic patterns, and maintain a consistent steady beat while playing an instrument.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, identify preferences in dramatic play, a guided drama experience, or age-appropriate theatre performance
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, name and describe settings in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, actively engage with others in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, identify similarities between characters and oneself in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, identify skills and knowledge from other content areas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, identify stories that are different from one another in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, tell a short story in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, invent and inhabit an imaginary place/environment in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, use available materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute to dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, express original ideas in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, ask and answer questions in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, identify characters in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, understand that voice and sound are fundamental to dramatic play and guided drama experiences.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, explore and experiment with various technical elements in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourceWith prompting and support, use voice and sound in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.
Generate resourcePeople develop ideas and understandings of society, culture, and history through interactions with and analysis of art.
Generate resourcePeople create and interact with objects, places, and designs that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.
Generate resourceThrough art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
Generate resourceIndividual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, the natural world, and constructed environments.
Generate resourceArtists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
Generate resourcePeople gain insights into the meanings of artworks by engaging in the process of art criticism.
Generate resourceArtists and other presenters consider various techniques, methods, venues, and criteria when analyzing, selecting, and curating objects, artifacts, and artworks for preservation and presentation.
Generate resourceObjects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
Generate resourceArtists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.
Generate resourceRelate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.
Generate resourceArtists, curators, and others consider a variety of factors and methods including evolving technologies when preparing and refining artwork for display and or when deciding if and how to preserve and protect it.
Generate resourceArtists and designers balance experimentation, safety, freedom, and responsibility while developing and creating artworks.
Generate resourceEngage collaboratively and/or individually in creative art-making in response to an artistic problem.
Generate resourceThrough experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
Generate resourceBegin to identify safe and non-toxic art materials, tools, and equipment.
Generate resourceInterpret art by identifying subject matter and describing relevant details.
Generate resourceArtists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative goals.
Generate resourceCreativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
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