Grades 3, 4, 5

Other Maine Visual & Performing Arts sets

• Grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Students accurately perform music in easy keys, meters, and rhythms with limited ranges, both instrumentally and vocally, while modeling proper posture and technique, alone or with others.

Students identify and read musical notation, symbols, and terminology of dynamics.

Students listen to and describe simple examples of the elements of music including pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, form, timbre, meter, phrases, style, and major/minor harmony.

Students describe theatre terms including stage directions, rehearsal, plot, gesture, director, motivation, conflict, improvisation, and blocking.

Students select and make props, costumes, set pieces, and/or puppets, and present a rehearsed scene.

Students explain purposes for making art in different times and places, and the relationship to cultural traditions, personal expression, and communication of beliefs.

Students describe features of composition.

Students describe a variety of media and associated tools, techniques, and processes, for multiple art forms and genres.

Students use movement to express a basic idea and share it with their peers.

Students develop a dance phrase with a beginning, middle, and end, accurately repeating and varying it.

Students solve movement challenges involving one or more movement concepts alone or with a partner.

Students select props or costumes to enhance a dance phrase and explain the choice.

Students create or perform music of various styles and genres in easy keys, meters, and rhythms with limited ranges accurately applying the knowledge and skills of: proper posture and technique; notation; symbols; and terminology of dynamics.

Students create their own compositions by applying the knowledge and skills of notation, symbols, and terminology of dynamics.

Students demonstrate blocking in a play by carrying out their assigned stage movements.

Students demonstrate the ideas, moods, and/or feelings of a character and demonstrate proper posture and breathing techniques to project voice through the use of script and improvisation based on stories.

Students improvise through theatre games by using voice, motivation, and body part isolations.

Students use a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes to create original art works.

Students use Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create original art works including paintings, three-dimensional objects, drawings from imagination and real life, and a variety of other media and visual art forms.

Students create art works that communicate ideas, feelings, and meanings and demonstrate skill in the use of media, tools, techniques, and processes.

Students help with the selection and preparation of art works for display in the classroom, school, or other community location.

Students describe and apply steps of creative problem-solving.

Students describe and compare art forms.

Students explain that the visual/performing arts help people understand history and/or world cultures.

Students describe characteristics shared between and among the arts and other disciplines.

Students identify and demonstrate choices that will lead to success in the arts including time management, interpersonal interactions, skill development, and goal-setting.

Students describe the contribution of the arts on lifestyle and career choices.

Students identify and demonstrate the positive interpersonal skills necessary to get along with others and participate in the arts.