Grade 5 Fine Arts Colorado Standards

Movement, Technique, and Performance

Demonstrate developing dance technique, vocabulary, and skills in various dance styles.

Navigate personal dance space while connecting with other dancers in the collective dance space.

Enhance movement and performance expression.

Demonstrate strength, flexibility and body awareness when performing dances from multiple genres.

Identify appropriate alignment and control while dancing.

Apply self-awareness to safe body movement.

Perform movements with a pathway that accommodates their body needs.

Explore strategies to perform a specific intent in a performed dance.

Perform dances with different intentions.

Coordinate different parts of the body while performing within an ensemble.

Create, Compose, and Choreograph

Manipulate or modify a variety of ideas to expand movement possibilities and create a variety of patterns and structures.

Experiment with movement that responds to a variety of stimuli (art, music, objects etc.).

Develop spontaneous improvised movements that can have a beginning, middle, and end.

Improvise alone, with partners, or in small groups.

Create dance studies alone or in groups using a variety of themes, structures, and inspirations.

Create movement phrases and dance sequences using compositional structures.

Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of techniques and vocabulary when creating dances.

Create transitions between movement sequences to strengthen intent.

Utilize feedback and revision to modify dance sequences.

Historical and Cultural Context

Identify and demonstrate movements and terminology consistent with different eras and cultures.

Observe and describe movements from various cultures and eras using culturally specific terms.

Perform movements specific to various cultures and eras.

Compare and contrast dances from various cultures.

Identify and examine the influences of an era and culture on a dance form.

Identify and examine dances of the past and dances of the present.

Identify similarities and differences of dances in cultures.

Reflect, Connect, and Respond

Describe meaning in artistic work created by self and others.

Use dance vocabulary to describe theme, meaning, and structure in dance.

Identify and describe the movement content of a particular dance work and the effect each component has on the work.

Discover personal connections through dance to other academic content and a broader creative community.

Identify the relationship between subjects such as music, visual art, language arts, math, science, and others with dance.

Show similarities and differences between dance, other art forms and school subjects.

Describe the impact of dance within individual communities.

Create

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Invent physical qualities that reveal a character’s inner traits and given circumstances in the imagined world of a creative drama or theatre work.

Propose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a creative drama or theatre work.

Generate a cohesive expression of a creative drama or theatre work that demonstrates character, visual, and design elements, and story.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Collaborate with peers to make choices concerning a story’s imagined situation that enhance and deepen characters and plot.

Participate in defined responsibilities of theatre practitioners in order to present a creative drama or theatre work informally to an audience.

Connect artistic ideas to personal experience and varied perspectives.

Analyze commonalities and differences between stories set in different cultures in preparation for a creative drama or theatre work.

Compare the drama or theatre conventions of a given time period with those of the present.

Refine towards completion of artistic work.

Revise and improve improvised or scripted work through rehearsal and self or peer critique.

Make physical and vocal choices to continually develop characters in an improvised or scripted creative drama or theatre work..

Create innovative solutions to design and technical problems that arise in rehearsal for a creative drama or theatre work.

Perform

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Describe the underlying thoughts and emotions that create dialogue and action in a creative drama or theatre work.

Make physical and vocal choices to interpret a character’s motivation in a creative drama or theatre work.

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

As an ensemble, collaborate, choose, and implement acting exercises that can enhance a creative drama or theatre work.

As an ensemble, collaborate, choose, and implement technical elements that can enhance a creative drama or theatre work.

Connect artistic work with audience, community, and ensemble.

Explain how creative drama or theatre work connects oneself to a community or culture.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perform small ensemble creative drama or theatre work for an audience of peers using technical elements to enhance the meaning.

Critically Respond

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Explain personal reactions to artistic choices made in a creative drama or theatre work through participation and observation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Justify or explain personal reactions when participating in or observing a creative drama or theatre work.

Explain responses to characters based on personal cultural perspectives when participating in or observing a creative drama or theatre work.

Investigate the effects of emotions on posture, gesture, breathing, and vocal intonation in a creative drama or theatre work.

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

Investigate historical, global, and social issues expressed in a creative drama or theatre work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Develop and implement a plan to evaluate a creative drama or theatre work.

Assess how technical elements represent the theme of a creative drama or theatre work.

Recognize and connect how a character’s circumstances impact an audience’s perspective in a creative drama or theatre work.

Expression of Music

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

Demonstrate and compare and contrast harmonic changes in songs (e.g., major vs. minor, blues, chord progressions, etc.).

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

Demonstrate songs in major and minor keys.

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

Demonstrate multi-layered rhythmic and melodic pieces and songs (e.g., rounds, partner songs, descants) learned from notation.

Demonstrate following the director’s indications for expressive elements.

Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual and ensemble technique and performance.

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 a musical idea using rhythm and pitches with accompaniment.

Create and document a melodic and/or rhythmic composition with accompaniment to present a chosen style or mood.

Generate and improvise musical ideas over an accompaniment (e.g., 12-bar blues, changing chord ostinati or other accompaniment, vocal ostinati).

Arrange an accompaniment to go with a melody

Theory of Music

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

Melody: Identify and demonstrate awareness of whole/half steps.

Rhythm: Identify and demonstrate syncopated rhythms.

Harmony: Identify, perform, or respond to extended harmonic patterns (e.g., I-V, V-I, I-IV-V-I).

Identify and demonstrate new and learned tempos, dynamics, and articulations.

Tempo: Identify and demonstrate written tempo symbols.

Dynamics: Identify and demonstrate the written symbols for dynamic changes.

Articulation: Identify and demonstrate learned written articulations.

Identify and apply complex form, meter, and timbre elements.

Form/Structure: Identify D.S. al Coda, D.C. al fine, 1st/2nd endings.

Meter/Beat Groupings: Identify the purpose of the top and bottom number in a time signature.

Timbre: Aurally identify 3+ parts, and various world instruments.

Response to Music

Create and use specific criteria in responding to a musical performance.

Discriminate between both musical (rhythm, melody, tempo) and nonmusical (text, feelings) elements that influence musical performance and preference.

Discuss the difference between preference versus quality of musical works.

Identify differences and commonalities in music from a variety of sources and intentions (e.g. historical periods, cultures, genres).

Describe the use of various timbres and rhythmic patterns and their uses in various historical periods and cultures.

Communicate similarities and differences in music from various historical periods.

Communicate ways in which music has been important to people throughout historical periods.

Observe and Learn to Comprehend

Investigate and analyze how specific points of view can be communicated through the language of visual art and design.

Explore connections between works of art from different cultures through time.

Infer intended meaning using the language of visual art and design.

Investigate how artists communicate points of view through personal works of art based on lived experiences.

Demonstrate an understanding of how works of visual art and design are influenced by the culture of daily life.

Observe and discuss how visual art and design exist in a shared contemporary world.

Investigate and discuss how popular culture influences visual art and design.

Envision and Critique to Reflect

Using a variety of criteria, question and evaluate works of art.

Support collaborative dialogue to analyze and evaluate one’s own work and that of others.

Reflect on how intended meaning influences the artmaking process.

Visualize intended meaning and determine a method of planning that best supports personal artmaking.

Reflect on how problem-solving drives the creative process.

Identify various methods of planning for visual art and design

Invent and Discover to Create

Plan works of visual art and design where intended meaning is communicated to viewers.

Make decisions during the creative process that best supports the intended point of view.

Discuss with others to determine if intended meaning was effectively communicated.

Contribute to the community of makers in a shared art space.

Apply an understanding of art processes and studio skills to create works of art and design.

Utilize traditional and contemporary media to effectively communicate intended meaning.

Revise works of visual art and design to improve ideas.

Justify choices made during the artistic process that resulted in the finished work of art and design.

Prepare works of art and design for presentation.

Relate and Connect to Transfer

Using interdisciplinary knowledge, investigate and interpret how diverse communities address issues relevant to their place and times.

Investigate how the reciprocal relationship between a work of visual art and design and the context of its culture deepens understanding.

Discuss how art reflects diverse social values and beliefs.