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Arts Education Standards
 Dance
- Content Standard 2 — Understanding choreographic principles,
processes, and structures
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Improvise, create, and perform dances based on their own ideas and
concepts from other sources
- Content Standard 7 — Making connections between dance
and other disciplines
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Create a dance project that reveals understanding of a concept or
idea from another discipline
Music
- Content Standard 6 — Listening to, analyzing, and describing
music
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Demonstrate perceptual skills by moving, by answering questions
about, and by describing aural examples of music of various styles
representing diverse cultures
- Content Standard 8 — Understanding relationships among
music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other
disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music
Theatre
- Content Standard 1 — Script writing by planning and recording
improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination,
literature, and history
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Improvise dialogue to tell stories, and formalize improvisations
by writing or recording the dialogue
- Content Standard 2 — Acting by assuming roles and interacting
in improvisations
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action
of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage,
imagination, literature, and history
- Content Standard 3 — Designing by visualizing and arranging
environments for classroom dramatizations
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Visualize environments and construct designs to communicate locale
and mood using visual elements (such as space, color, line, shape,
texture) and aural aspects using a variety of sound sources
- Content Standard 4 — Directing by planning classroom
dramatizations
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Collaboratively plan and rehearse improvisations and demonstrate
various ways of staging classroom dramatizations
- Content Standard 6 — Comparing and connecting art forms
by describing theatre, dramatic media (such as film, television, and
electronic media), and other art forms
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in theatre, dramatic
media, dance, music, and visual arts
Visual Arts
- Content Standard 2 — Using knowledge of structures and
functions
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Describe how different expressive features and organizational principles
cause different responses
- Content Standard 6 — Making connections between visual
arts and other disciplines
Achievement Standards for Grades K–4
- Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines
in the curriculum
Source: National Standards for Arts Education,
published by Music Educators National Conference (MENC). Copyright ©
1994 by MENC. Used by permission. The complete National Arts Standards
and additional materials relating to the standards are available from
MENC, The National Association for Music Education, 1806 Robert Fulton
Drive, Reston, VA 20191, telephone: 800-336-3768.
Source, Dance Standards: This article/quote is reprinted
from National Standards for Arts Education with permission of the National
Dance Association, an association of the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The original source may be purchased
from: National Dance Association, 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1599;
or phone 703-476-3421.
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