Grade 3 Fine Arts Next Gen Standards

Compare the relationships expressed in a dance to relationships with others. Explain how they are the same or different.

Investigate a research question about a dance that communicates a perspective on an issue or event and explore its key aspects through movement. Share the dance study and describe how the creative process helped discover new aspects of this topic. Communicate the new learning in oral or written form.

Identify the relationship between movement in a dance work or practice to that of the society, or community and the culture from which the dance work or practice is derived. Explain which aspects of the culture are communicated through the dancework or practice.

Experiment with a variety of self-identified stimuli (e.g. music/sound, text, objects/props, images, notation, dance exemplars, own ideas, and experiences) for creating movement.

Explore a given movement problem through improvisation with the elements of dance. Select, demonstrate, and describe a solution using accurate language.

Identify and experiment with choreographic devices to create simple movement patterns and dance structures (e.g. repetition, AB, ABA, theme and variation).

Develop a dance study that expresses and communicates an idea or feeling by exploring the elements of dance. Explain the artistic intent and effect of the movement choices.

Identify, explore, and select production elements (e.g. music/sound, props, costumes) that support formal or informal performances. Contrast the various production jobs of choreographer, composer, and costume designer.

Revise movement choices in response to teacher and peer feedback to improve a short dance study. Describe the changes made in the movements after revision.

Document directions or spatial patterns in a dance study by drawing a picture or pathway map, using symbols, or working with media technology.

Estimate distance travelled and use space three dimensionally. Demonstrate shapes with positive and negative space. Perform movement sequences in clear pathways through space with intentionality and focus.

Fulfill specified duration of time with improvised locomotor and non-locomotor movements. Differentiate between "in time" and "out of time" to music. Perform movements that follow or contrast the rhythmic pattern of the accompaniment. Use metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

Change the use of energy and dynamics by modifying movements to heighten the expressive quality of the body and movement intent, in response to verbalizations, expressive qualities of music/sound, or other cues.

Demonstrate the fundamental dance skills of awareness of body alignment and core support while performing body shapes (e.g. twisted, narrow), movement qualities (e.g. light, heavy), and patterns in simple dance sequences.

Utilize fundamental dance skills to coordinate with a partner or other dancers to safely change levels, directions, and pathway designs.

Recall movement sequences with a partner or in group dances. Apply constructive feedback from teacher and peers, and self-assess to improve performance dance skills.

Identify the main areas of performance space by using production terminology (e.g., stage right, stage left, center stage, upstage, and downstage). Learn about the role of a stage manager. Demonstrate appropriate performer and audience etiquette in informal and formal performances.

Explore ways to dance with simple production elements (e.g. costumes, props, music, scenery, lighting, or media) for an audience in a designated performance space. Observe video recording as a tool to enhance performance.

Describe floor pathways and formations in a dance. Identify movement motifs that relate to the title of a dance.

Compare and contrast observed or performed movements originating from diverse dance styles, genres, and/or cultural movement practices.

Identify characteristics of various dance styles and genres and, employing basic dance terminology, relate them to the main ideas and to the meaning of the dances.

Demonstrate and discuss the characteristics of the movement elements used in various genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Using basic dance terminology where appropriate, discuss how those characteristics contribute to the overall impression of the dances.

Criteria for evaluating dance vary across genres, styles, and cultures.

Personal experiences, knowledge, and contexts are integrated and synthesized to interpret and create dance.

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

Space, time, and energy are basic elements of dance.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Connecting

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Dance performance is an interaction between performers, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Responding

Societal, cultural, historical, and community contexts both influence and are influenced by dance.

The elements of dance, dance structures, and choreographic structures serve as both a foundation and a departure point for choreographers.

Choreographers are inspired by a variety of sources to convey concepts and ideas through movement for artistic expression.

Meaningful interpretations of dance consider artistic intent, style, genre, the elements of dance, technique, structure, and context.

Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning.

Performing

Creating

Dancers use the body-mind principles and develop the body as an instrument for artistry and artistic expression.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate musical soundscapes to portray stories, characters, emotions, and/or ideas.

Describe places, times, and reasons for making and listening to music.

Perform folk dances from a variety of cultures.

Manipulate music concepts in order to express ideas.

Perform folk music from a variety of cultures and identify the music's culture of origin.

Document and preserve musical ideas or insights from varied musical styles and repertoire, using standard notation, as appropriate to the musical appropriate to the musical tradition.

Generate rhythmic and melodic ideas, and identify connection to specific purpose and/or context (such as personal and social).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and meter.

Demonstrate and identify selected musical ideas for a simple arrangement or composition to express intent, and identify connection to a specific purpose and/or context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying teacher-provided criteria and feedback.

Present the final version of created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the music that they selected to perform (from teacher-or student-provided options) is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.

Demonstrate knowledge of the elements of music (such as rhythm and pitch) n music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns, using standard notation, as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Describe how context (Describe how context social) can inform a performance.

Demonstrate and identify the context and how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Apply established criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of performances.

Identify and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies and show readiness to present.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, and context, demonstrating performance decorum.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Demonstrate and identify how selected music (from teacher or student-provided options) connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

Demonstrate and identify how a response to music can be informed by the use of the elements of music and by context (such as personal and social).

Demonstrate and identify how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers' interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Apply established criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, identifying appropriateness to the context.

Performing

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Musicians judge expression and technique in prepared performances by using criteria that vary across time, place, and culture. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Responding

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Connecting

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Creating

Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Choose personal experiences, interests, and relevant information for creating media artwork and explain how they communicate the intended meaning.

Identify and discuss how media artwork and ideas relate to life, cultures, values; past and present.

Identify media arts innovations that have affected society and culture.

Discover ideas for media artwork through experimentation and collaboration.

Collaboratively form ideas, plans, and models for media artwork.

Examine and interact appropriately and safely with multimedia devices and media environments.

Create, analyze, and refine media art choices. Discuss how refinements and adjustments affect the completed media artwork.

Investigate and discuss different art forms and content in media artwork presentations.

Demonstrate appropriate use of tools and techniques while presenting media artwork.

Identify key roles, when sharing a media artwork, the context in which it was shared, and describe the presentation experience and results.

Identify and describe how components of media artwork communicate specific messages.

Identify and describe how various forms, methods, or styles in media artwork affect audience experience.

Interpret the purposes and meanings of a variety of media artworks, considering their context.

Evaluate a media artwork based on given criteria.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Media artworks communicate and influence audience experiences.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to navigate unforeseen challenges and to contribute to solutions within a society or culture.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Producing

Responding

Media artwork is made to be shared. Media artists purposefully present and distribute media artworks for various contexts.

Connecting

The reciprocal nature of creation and presentation of media artworks demands a wide range of skills and abilities to creatively solve problems and refine media artworks. Media artists require a range of skills and abilities to effectively present media artworks.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into structures that can effectively realize artistic ideas.

Media artists intentionally integrate, analyze, and revise elements, principles and processes to improve the clarity, communication, and purpose of the media artwork.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves artistic appreciation and production.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Skillful evaluation and critique are essential components of experiencing, appreciating, and producing media artwork.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Media artists integrate various forms and contents to present or share complex, unified media artworks.

Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, cultures, and various contexts.

Media arts ideas and works are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, artistic traditions, and experiences.

Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of media artwork.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Media artists balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing, creating, and sharing media artworks.

Media artwork synthesize personal experiences to create meaning.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Creating

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Theater artists refine their work and practice their craft through rehearsal and active participation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Theater artists deliberately interrelate their creative process with the world around them.

Theater artists apply criteria to investigate, explore, and assess drama and theater work.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Theater artists critically inquire into the ways others have thought about and created theatrical processes and productions to inform their own work.

Theater artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Theater artists develop personal processes and skills for a performance or design.

Theater artists share and present stories, ideas, and envisioned worlds to explore the human experience.

Responding

The essence of theater is storytelling.

Creativity is a foundation of theatrical practice.

Understanding of theatrical experiences is deepened through reflection.

Creating

Theater artists allow awareness of relationships between self and others to influence and inform their work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Theater artists' interpretations of drama or theater work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics.

Performing

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture.

Identify connections to community, social issues, and other content areas in a drama or theater work.

Explore how stories are adapted from literature to drama or theater work.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories by using different art forms, genres, or theatrical conventions.

Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories.

Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props, and sets.

Collaborate to determine how characters might move and speak to support a story and given circumstances.

Participate in methods of investigation to devise theatrical experiences.

Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group drama or theater work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit given circumstances.

Contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama or theater work.

Refine object transformation to support an improvised or scripted drama or theater work.

Apply the elements of dramatic structure to a story and create a drama or theater work.

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into theatrical experiences.

Participate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting.

Identify the basic technical elements of theater.

Share reflections on a theatrical experience.

Explain why artistic choices are made.

Explain how personal preferences and emotions affect an observer.

Examine how connections are made between oneself and the emotions of a character.

Understand how and why a drama or theater work is evaluated.

Consider and analyze technical elements in theatrical experiences.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations from an audience perspective.

Creating

Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.

Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique; and reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

Connecting

People create, respond to, and interact with objects and places in ways that define, shape, enhance, and empower their lives.

Responding

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

Refine and complete artistic work.

People evaluate art, based on various criteria.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented communicate meaning and function as a record of social, cultural, and political experiences; resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Artists, curators, and other arts professionals engage appropriate methods and resources when preparing artwork for presentation and preservation.

Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of self, others, and the world.

Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Artists, collectors, curators, and other arts professionals consider a variety of criteria when analyzing and selecting objects, artifacts, and artwork for presentation and preservation.

Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.

Works of art and design embody and influence the needs, desires, beliefs, traditions, and values of people within a culture.

Generating and solving artistic problems prepares people to contribute to innovative solutions within a society or culture.

Through artmaking, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

Presenting

People gain insight into meanings of artwork by engaging in a process of art criticism.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Artists and designers balance experimentation and freedom with safety and responsibility while developing and creating artwork.

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Recognize visual characteristics commonly found in works of art and design from a particular culture.

Brainstorm ideas for and experiment with changes to simple items used in daily life; share results.

Elaborate on a selected imaginative idea.

Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the artmaking process.

Create artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

Elaborate by adding details to an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.

Investigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Identify exhibit space and prepare works of art, including artists' statements, for presentation.

Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

Speculate about the artistic processes an artist used to create a work of art.

Identify messages communicated by images.

Interpret mood in artwork by analyzing subject matter and characteristics of form.

Evaluate an artwork, based on given criteria.