Kindergarten Fine Arts Next Gen Standards

Recognize and identify an emotion that is experienced when watching, improvising, or performing a dancework or practice and relate it to a personal experience.

Observe a work of visual art. Describe and express through movement something of interest about the artwork. Ask questions related to the connection between the movements and the artwork.

Describe or demonstrate the movements in a dance that was watched or performed.

Respond using movement elements and skills to a series of sensory stimuli (e.g. music/sound, text, objects/props, images, symbols, observed dance through video or live performance).

Explore movement ideas and the different ways to vary basic locomotor and non-locomotor movements by changing at least one of the elements of dance.

Improvise a dance that has a clear beginning and end.

Express an idea, feeling, or image, through improvised movement alone or in relationship to a partner, with or without props (e.g. scarves, bean bags, ribbons).

Identify production elements (e.g. music/sound, props) that support performances. Describe the job of a dancer versus that of a choreographer.

Apply self, peer, and teacher suggestions for changing movement through guided improvisational experiences.

Depict a dance movement by drawing a picture, using a symbol, or working with media technology.

Make still and moving body shapes that show lines (e.g. straight, bent, and curved), change levels (e.g. high, middle, low), and vary in size (e.g. large/small). Work with others to make a circle formation and change its dimensions.

Demonstrate contrasts in tempo through movement by matching the tempo of sound stimuli.

Identify and apply different qualities to movements (e.g. loose/tight, light/heavy, shaky/smooth, fast/slow) in response to verbalizations, expressive qualities of music/sound, or other cues.

Demonstrate same side, and cross-body locomotor (e.g. gallop, skip) and non-locomotor movements (e.g. swing, twist, stretch), and spatial relationships (e.g. over, under, around, through).

Move safely in general space by starting and stopping on cue during movement explorations, while maintaining personal space.

Move body parts in relation to other body parts. Repeat and recall movements upon request in preparation for formal and informal sharing.

Dance for others while maintaining awareness of performance expectations (e.g. silence, focus) in both formal and informal settings.

Select and explore the use of a prop as part of a dance.

Identify a movement that repeats in a dance.

Demonstrate and describe observed or performed movements originating from diverse dance genres.

Observe movement and describe it, using simple dance terminology.

Select a movement that was prominent in a dance work or practice and demonstrate that movement. Explain what distinguished the movement from the others.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Responding

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

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Connecting

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

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

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

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

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

Refine and complete artistic work.

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

Creating

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

Performing

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

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

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

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

Apply criteria to evaluate 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.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Dance is perceived and analyzed to comprehend its compositional structure.

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

Explore and imitate sounds found in the environment.

Imagine and describe places, times, and reasons for making and listening to music.

Illustrate musical ideas through movements (such as dramatizations of books or stories).

Manipulate music concepts (such as tempo and dynamics) in order to express ideas.

Explore folk music from a music from a variety of cultures.

With guidance, discuss preferences for varied musical styles and repertoire.

With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour).

With guidance, generate musical ideas such as movements or motifs).

With guidance, demonstrate and select favorite musical ideas.

With guidance, organize personal musical ideas, using iconic notation and/or recording technology.

With guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback in refining musical ideas.

With guidance, demonstrate a final version of musical ideas to peers.

With guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections provided by the teacher.

With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as high/low, loud/soft, same/different) in a variety of same/different) in a variety of in music selected for performance. performance. performance. music selected for performance. elements of music are elements of music are music selected for performance.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo) that support the creators' expressive intent.

With guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.

With guidance, use suggested strategies in rehearsal to improve the expressive qualities of music.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

With guidance, perform music with expression.

Perform appropriately for the audience.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

With guidance, list personal interests and experiences and demonstrate why they prefer some teacher-provided music selections over others.

With guidance, demonstrate how a specific music concept (such as beat or melodic direction) is used in music.

With guidance, demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

With guidance, apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

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

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete 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.

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.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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

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.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Creating

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

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

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

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, 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.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

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.

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

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

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

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

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

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

Connecting

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.

Performing

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

With guidance, share personal experiences that could be used in media artwork.

With guidance, share ideas that relate media artwork to one's everyday life.

With guidance, identify media arts inventions and their uses.

Discover and explore media arts tools.

With guidance, form ideas for media art production.

With guidance, discuss safe and appropriate media arts interactions.

With support, capture and experiment with media arts content.

With support, identify reasons for selecting presented media artworks.

Practice, discover, and share how media arts creation tools work.

With guidance, discuss and share reactions to a media artwork.

Recognize and share components of media artwork.

Recognize and share how media artwork communicates different messages.

With guidance, share observations comparing media artworks.

With guidance, provide a reason for selecting media artwork.

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

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

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

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

Creating

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

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Producing

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

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

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Media artwork synthesize personal experiences to create meaning.

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

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Connecting

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

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.

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

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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.

Responding

Media artworks communicate and influence audience experiences.

Refine and complete artistic work.

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

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.

Responding

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

Refine and complete artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Theater artists work to discover different ways of communicating meaning.

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

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

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

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Understanding of theatrical experiences is deepened through reflection.

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

Connecting

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.

Performing

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

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

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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

Creativity is a foundation of theatrical practice.

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

The essence of theater is storytelling.

Creating

With prompting and support, identify similarities between characters and oneself in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, applys kills and knowledge acquired elsewhere to dramatic play.

With prompting and support, identify stories that are different from one another in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, tell a short story in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, use non-representational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for dramatic play.

With prompting and support, use gestures to tell a story in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, interact with peers and contribute to dramatic play.

With prompting and support, express original ideas in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, ask and answer questions in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, participate in using sounds and movements in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, use a single object in multiple representations in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, identify characters and setting in dramatic play or a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, use body and voice to communicate emotions in a guided drama experience.

With prompting and support, use sound and movement in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, explore and experiment with various technical elements in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, communicate mood in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, express an emotional response to characters in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, identify preferences in dramatic play.

Use pictures to make connections between oneself and a character.

With prompting and support, evaluate dramatic play.

With prompting and support, select props and costumes for use in dramatic play.

With prompting and support, discuss the experiences of characters in dramatic play.

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

Presenting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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

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

Connecting

People evaluate art, based on various criteria.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

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.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Visual imagery influences understanding of and responses to the world.

Responding

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

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

Refine and complete artistic work.

Creating

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

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.

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

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

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

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

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

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

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

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

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

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

Explore the world using descriptive words and artistic work.

Identify a variety of forms of art and design.

Describe what it means to invent, and imagine an invention.

Engage in exploration and imaginative play with materials.

Engage collaboratively in creative artmaking in response to an artistic problem.

Through experimentation, build skills in various media and artmaking approaches.

Identify safe art materials, tools, and equipment.

Note similarities and differences of objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures, or other visual means.

Reflect on and explain the process of making art.

Identify reasons for saving and displaying objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Explain the purpose of a portfolio or collection.

Explain what an art museum is and distinguish how an art museum is different from other buildings.

Identify uses of art within one's personal environment.

Describe what an image represents.

With guidance, share observations comparing artworks.

Explain reasons for selecting a preferred artwork.