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

 

By the end of Grade 2, students will:

 

A.   Dance

1.    Identify the basic dance elements of time, space/shape, and energy in planned and improvised dance sequences.

2.    Identify movement qualities such as jagged, sharp, smooth, bouncy, or jerky using the vocabulary of dance.

3.    Explore arts media and themes as catalysts in the composition of dance.

4.    Explore personal space.

 

B.   Music

1.    Identify musical elements in response to diverse aural prompts, such as rhythm, timbre, dynamics, form, and melody.

 2 .  Recognize ways to organize musical elements such as scales and rhythmic patterns.

 

C.   Theater

1.    Identify basic elements of theater such as setting, costumes, plots, scenes, and themes.

2.    Explore the use of voice, movement, and facial expression in conveying emotions in creative drama and storytelling.

 

D.   Visual Art

1.    Identify the basic art elements of color, line, shape, form, texture and space.

2.    Discuss how art elements are used in specific works of art.

 

 

Link to Standard 1.3 Grade 3-4

 

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