Grade 3 Fine Arts Kansas Standards

Imagine: Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).

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

Plan and Make: Select and develop musical ideas for defined purposes and contexts.

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.

Evaluate and Refine: Evaluate and refine selected musical ideas to create musical work(s) that meet appropriate criteria.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback.

Present: Share creative musical work that coveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

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

Creating – Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.

Responding – Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning.

Performing – Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Select: Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill, and context.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.

Analyze: Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation.

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Interpret: Develop personal interpretations that consider creators' intent.

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

Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluate and refine personal and ensemble performances, individually or in collaboration with others.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Present: Perform expressively, with appropriate interpretation and technical accuracy, and in a manner appropriate to the audience and context.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.

Select: Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context.

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is

Analyze: Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response.

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

Interpret: Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators'/performers' expressive intent.

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

Evaluate: Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Envision

Contextualize

Improvise a character and setting from a story.

Identify and reflect upon personal meaning and emotional responses to performances and apply ideas to self and society.

Produce/Present

Create a setting appropriate to a story.

Demonstrate active listening.

Use variations of voice, movement, and gesture for different characters.

Craft/Refine

Use improvisation to create dialogue for a script.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

Appreciate/Respond

Appreciate/Respond

Describe the elements of live theatre. Identify how dramatic elements communicate meanings and elicit emotions in stories, performances, and electronic media.

Describe how theatre artists manipulate theatrical elements.

Acquire the information and skills necessary for the planning and preparation of a theatrical work.

Reflect

Sequence the steps needed for creating a project.

Identify local theaters and how they are a part of the community.

Problem solve with others.

Improvise a play using available materials.

Identify how dramatic elements communicate meaning and elicit emotions.

Apply personal observation, knowledge, and experience to shape a work.

Organize/Plan

Develop acceptance of individuals in their theatrical community and the community as a whole.

Etiquette/Respect

Adjust playmaking to incorporate unintended occurrences.

Listen to script, differentiating dialogue, stage direction, and character identification.

List and describe the basic elements of a story.

Demonstrate active listening.

Explore and imagine through creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences to discover diverse creative ideas.

Use simple objects and materials for props, costumes, and physical settings.

Develop/Perform

Concentrate on the task at hand for a specific period of time.

Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior.

Respond to the feelings/emotions within self and other's discovered through drama work and theatre experiences to demonstrate an understanding of the human experience.

Engage in imaginative play. Problem solve when the unexpected happens.

Interpret and articulate perspectives on theatre experiences in one's own work and the work of others by using criteria such as aesthetics, beliefs, contexts, and critical perspectives.

Maintain a safe space for experimentation and risk taking for the development, revision, and refinement of new work, ideas, and perspectives.

Connect/Integrate

Follow appropriate safety procedures.

Use self-control and active listening to appreciate and respond to a performance.

Collaborate with peers to perform a classroom dramatization.

Identify jobs related to theatre production.

Recognize the contextual aspects of performances from various cultures, times, and places.

Recognize how theatre communicates ideas about past and present cultural and social context.

Experience

Communicate the relationships between theatre and the world to make meaning and deepen understanding of cultural, global, and historical contexts.

Identify and demonstrate stage position and movement.

Discover/Create

Identify and distinguish the various roles and responsibilities necessary for theatrical production.

Engage in creative play, drama processes, and theatre experiences both individually and collaboratively.

Recognize elements and skills from other content areas used in theatre and use skills developed through theatre in other content and occupational areas.

Share stories about personal experiences.

Present realized artistic ideas in a theatrical form.

Develop a performance from story book.

Engage in self-directed play. Try new things. Improvise a character and dialogue. Improvise a setting appropriate for a story. Communicate through physical action and reaction.

Engage in collaborative, imaginative play.

Acceptance/Respect

Analyze/Critique/Evaluate

Work with others.

Display appropriate emotional behavior throughout the production process.

Cross Curricula/Careers

Identify other content areas used in theatre.

Create a personal response to a performance and apply those ideas to self and society.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and works.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Presenting

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Responding

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Creating

Refine and complete artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Connecting

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.

Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

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

Create personally satisfying 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 a part of everyday life.

Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meeting.

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 though art.

Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Determine messages communicated by an image.

Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

Evaluate an artwork based on given criteria.