Grade 3 Fine Arts Colorado Standards

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Perform movement with technical competency and skill.

Develop technique appropriate to the dance style.

Accurately reproduce movement sequences.

Perform movements while observing safe body practices.

Participate in warm-ups with an understanding of progression.

Identify the parts of the body used while dancing.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Identify and experiment with movement to create simple patterns and dance structures.

Communicate feelings and intent through improvisation

Recognize and demonstrate simple patterns and contrasting movements.

Solve simple movement problems alone and with partners.

Improvise movement that has a beginning, middle, and end.

Create simple movements that can be organized into a movement phrase.

Organize movements created into short dances based on a creative process.

Create simple movement phrases that meet given criteria.

Manipulate or modify movement sequences that have a beginning, middle, and end.

Edit and refine a dance to clarify intent.

Historical and Cultural Context

Identify and demonstrate movements that are era and culturally specific.

Compare and contrast different cultural dances using movement descriptions and performance.

Describe distinguishing characteristics of historical and cultural dances.

Recognize and describe ways in which dance represents different eras and cultures.

Contrast the differences in dances of different eras.

Describe cultural aspects from videos and pictures.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Compare and contrast different dances.

Use dance vocabulary to identify movements, basic structure, and emotion in dance.

Identify and describe the movement content of a particular dance work.

Discover connections between dance and other academic content.

Identify that dance relates to other academic content areas.

Identify dance in a variety of communities.

Discover how arts are related to one another.

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Investigate through collaboration to determine how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in a creative drama or theatre work.

Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props, and sets for the environment and characters in a creative drama or theatre work.

Create characters, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in creative drama and theatre.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Devise original ideas for creative drama and theatre through various forms of independent, group collaboration, and whole class investigation.

Explore roles and responsibilities required to create a creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic ideas to personal experience and varied perspectives.

Use personal experience and background knowledge to create connections to community and culture in creative drama and theatre

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama or story drama).

Refine towards completion of artistic work.

Explore possible revisions or adaptions that could be made in a creative drama or theatre work.

Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted work.

Identify design and technical choices that support a devised or scripted work.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

With prompting and support, identify and apply the elements of dramatic structure to a creative drama or theatre work.

With prompting and support, investigate how movement and voice enhance a creative drama or theatre work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques, choices, and work for presentation.

With prompting and support, collaborate as an ensemble to integrate movement and vocal choices in a creative drama or theatre work.

With prompting and support, explore alternative basic technical elements (e.g., setting, props, and costumes) used in a creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic work with audience, community, and ensemble.

With prompting and support, identify connections to community, social issues, and other content areas in a creative drama or theatre work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

With prompting and support, use individual, small ensemble and/or audience feedback to guide performance in creative drama and theatre works.

Critically Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Understand and interpret why artistic choices are made in creative drama or theatre work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Utilize various personal experiences and background knowledge to analyze creative drama or theatre work.

Examine and analyze the different ways characters are developed through the inclusion of props, costume design, and makeup that reflect cultural perspectives in creative drama or theatre work.

Examine how connections are made between oneself and a character’s emotions in creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic experiences to our world; past, present, and future.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama/theatre conventions.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Identify the processes that groups use to evaluate creative drama or theatre work.

Consider and analyze design or technical elements from multiple creative drama or theatre works.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations in a creative drama or theatre work from an audience perspective.

Expression of Music

Perform/Demonstrate music that exhibits learned rhythmic, melodic, and introductory accompaniment components.

Demonstrate learned melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic phrases using expressive elements.

Demonstrate and connect songs with multiple rhythmic or melodic ostinati in small groups.

Demonstrate and interpret melodies based on the pentatonic scale.

Perform/Demonstrate notated songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, harmony, tone and expressive elements.

Use accurate vocal and instrumental techniques when singing and playing instruments.

Demonstrate two-part songs (e.g., rounds, partner songs) using speech, body percussion, singing, movement, or instruments.

Use notation to accurately perform rhythms and melodic direction.

Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual technique and performance of simple notated songs.

Engage in refinement and feedback processes to prepare music for performance.

Self-evaluate to refine musical performance.

Critique expressive elements performed by others.

Creation of Music

Compose, improvise, and arrange in known musical forms using rhythm and/or pitch.

Create and document a melodic and/or rhythmic composition using known rhythms and pitches.

Generate and improvise musical ideas within a musical structure (e.g. rondo).

Arrange an accompaniment to support a musical idea using known rhythms or pitches.

Theory of Music

Identify and demonstrate notated melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns.

Melody: Identify and demonstrate musical symbols by name or function.

Rhythm: Identify and demonstrate four sixteenth notes, dotted half note.

Harmony: Identify, perform, or respond to harmonic changes using tonic and dominant chords (e.g., intervals, bourdun, ostinato, home tone).

Identify and demonstrate gradual tempos, dynamics, and articulations.

Tempo: Identify and demonstrate accelerando/ritardando.

Dynamics: Identify and demonstrate crescendo/decrescendo.

Articulation: Identify and demonstrate legato, staccato.

Identify and demonstrate advanced form, meter, and timbre elements.

Form/Structure: Aurally identify rondo.

Meter/Beat Groupings: Identify and demonstrate various time signatures including 2/4, 3/4, 4/4.

Timbre: Aurally identify instruments and families.

Response to Music

Select and use specific criteria in making judgments about the quality of a musical performance.

Communicate how expressive qualities (such as dynamics, modality, tempo and meter) are used to reflect expressive intent.

Communicate similarities and differences in music.

Identify differences and commonalities in music from various cultures.

Describe vocal and instrumental timbres and their uses in various cultures.

Communicate similarities and differences in music used for holidays, celebrations, and day-to-day life from various cultures.

Discuss reasons that different kinds of music are important to different people and cultures.

Observe and Learn to Comprehend

Investigate works of art and design to recognize how to create meaning with purpose and intent.

Identify historical and cultural ideas evident in works of visual art and design.

Use the language of visual art and design as a tool to help determine artistic intent.

Discuss how the use of a material supports or detracts from intended meaning.

Envision and Critique to Reflect

Demonstrate an understanding of how intent and purpose are informed by research and experimentation.

Use peer feedback and self-reflection to inform next steps and improve works of art and design.

Describe how research informed a personal work of art.

Synthesize ideas about personal works of art and imagine possible next steps.

Demonstrate understanding of how research inspires development of ideas.

Envision solutions to artmaking problems.

Invent and Discover to Create

Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions.

Demonstrate how working collaboratively can enhance the artistic process.

Demonstrate understanding of how experimentation helps develop making with purpose and intent.

Determine whether a work of art is finished.

Demonstrate how the art room is a community of makers.

Relate and Connect to Transfer

Recognize how works of visual art and design communicate meaning both within a community and between diverse cultures.

Investigate how visual art and design can make connections between subjects, disciplines or events.

Connect the meaning of personal works of art to historical, cultural or community events.