STANDARD 1.3 (ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER, AND VISUAL ART.

 

Descriptive Statement:  In order to understand the visual and performing arts, students must discover the elements and principles both unique and common to dance, music, theater, and the visual arts.  The elements, such as color, line, shape, form and rhythm, time, space and energy, are the basis for the creation of works of art.  An understanding of these elements and practice of the principles ensure the strengthening of interdisciplinary relationships with all content area curricula and their applications in daily life.   

 

Cumulative Progress Indicators

 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:

 

A.   Dance

        1.    Investigate the relationship of dance and other art forms.

2.    Differentiate basic compositional structures in choreography.

3.    Recognize contrasting and complementary shapes and shared weight centers in composition and performance.

 

B.   Music

1.    Explore musical elements through verbal and written responses to diverse aural prompts and printed scores.

2.    Identify and categorize sound sources by common traits.

3.    Differentiate basic structures in music composition.

 

C.   Theater

        1.    Recognize basic stage directions in the dramatization of stories/plays.

2.    Examine the basic structural characteristics of the well-made play.

 

D.   Visual Art

1.    Identify the design principles of balance, harmony, unity, emphasis, proportion and rhythm/movement.

2.    Identify elements and principles of design in specific works of art.

 

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade K-2

 

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 5-6

 

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