What grade levels do these standards cover?

Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8

Where can I read the official document?

Wyoming Fine and Performing Arts Content Standards

K–12 Standards

Grades 5, 6, 7, 8
Other Wyoming Fine and Performing Arts Content sets
Grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4
Grades 9, 10, 11

Creative Expression Through Production: Students create, perform, exhibit or participate in the arts

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Students create and revise original art to express ideas, experiences and storieFPA 8.1.A.1
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Students select and recognize qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, technologies and processes to communicate their experiences and ideas through artFPA 8.1.A.2
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Students analyze the use of the elements and principles of design in their artworkFPA 8.1.A.3
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Students collaborate with others in creative artistic processesFPA 8.1.A.4
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Students use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible mannerFPA 8.1.A.5
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Students prepare and exhibit their artworkFPA 8.1.A.6
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Students demonstrate and explain isolated and coordinated dance movements with body awareness and intentFPA 8.1.D.1
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Students perform movements with an understanding of alignment, balance, initiation of movement, range of motion, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recoveryFPA 8.1.D.2
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Students apply and analyze the elements of dance in their own and others performanceFPA 8.1.D.3
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Students understand and perform musical phrasingFPA 8.1.D.4
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Students perform multiple movement phrases to demonstrate different choreographic structures and forms. Students explain the choreographic structures they performed.FPA 8.1.D.5
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Explore and discuss ways of using technologies with danceFPA 8.1.D.6
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Students use improvisation and revision to choreograph to communicate images, ideas, intent, situations or feelingsFPA 8.1.D.7
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Students demonstrate musicianship through individual practice, rehearsal and revisionFPA 8.1.M.1
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Students perform independently and with others a varied repertoire of music, demonstrating correct posture, playing position, breath control, dynamics, intonation, range and tone quality.FPA 8.1.M.2
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Students improvise rhythms, melodies and accompaniments within a consistent style, meter, and tonalityFPA 8.1.M.3
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Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelinesFPA 8.1.M.4
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Students develop musical literacy through reading, sightreading and notating musicFPA 8.1.M.5
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Students perform in a theatrical settingFPA 8.1.T.1
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Students create for a theatrical setting using technical theatre skillsFPA 8.1.T.2
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Students improve theatrical skills and self-discipline through rehearsal, practice, and memorization.FPA 8.1.T.3
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Students apply collaborative skills in the creative dramatic processFPA 8.1.T.4
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Students explore character and theme within a dramatic pieceFPA 8.1.T.5
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Students understand the role of a script in a productionFPA 8.1.T.6

Aesthetic Perception: Students respond to, analyze, and make informed judgments about the arts.

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Students observe and describe in detail the physical properties of works of artFPA 8.2.A.1
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Students interpret art, identifying subjects, themes and symbols that communicate their knowledge of context, values and meaningFPA 8.2.A.2
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Students describe and analyze works of art using the language of artistic elements and principlesFPA 8.2.A.3
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Students form and defend their preferences for artists and specific worksFPA 8.2.A.4
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Students explain how different kinds of movement impact meaning and interpretation of artistic choicesFPA 8.2.D.1
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Students observe or perform dance and discuss the main ideas of the dance, articulating emotional and kinesthetic responses in relation to personal context.FPA 8.2.D.2
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Students use dance terminology to analyze how technical, organizational and dance elements contribute to the ideas, aesthetic quality, and impact of the performanceFPA 8.2.D.3
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Students discuss how production elements contribute to the ideas and impact of the performanceFPA 8.2.D.4
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Students apply appropriate terminology in the analysis of compositional devices and techniques used in a musical workFPA 8.2.M.1
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Students respond to aural examples by describing musical elements of a varied repertoire of musicFPA 8.2.M.2
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Students discuss criteria and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others' performances, compositions, arrangements, or improvisationsFPA 8.2.M.3
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Students form and defend their preferences for musicians, musical works and genresFPA 8.2.M.4
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Students view and analyze a live performance including articulating emotional responses to the performanceFPA 8.2.T.1
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Students observe and analyze how technical, organizational and theatrical elements contribute to the ideas, aesthetic quality, and impact of the theatrical form.FPA 8.2.T.2
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Students interpret dramatic works, identifying subjects, themes, artistic choices and symbols that communicate their knowledge of context, values and meaning through use of theatrical terminologyFPA 8.2.T.3
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Students explain personal preferences for dramatic works and styles through the influence of personal experiencesFPA 8.2.T.4
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Students read and analyze a scriptFPA 8.2.T.5

Historical and cultural context: Students demonstrate an understanding of the arts in relation to history, cultures, and contemporary society.

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Students know, identify and compare the characteristics of works of art from various environments, eras and culturesFPA 8.3.A.1
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Students describe and place a variety of art objects in historical, environmental and cultural contextsFPA 8.3.A.2
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Students analyze, describe, and relate how factors of culture, time and environment influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of artFPA 8.3.A.3
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Students explain how values and beliefs are reflected in dance in their community and in different culturesFPA 8.3.D.1
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Students investigate historical events and periods and their influence on danceFPA 8.3.D.2
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Students compare and contrast choreography from a variety of styles of danceFPA 8.3.D.3
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Students recognize the role of dancers in their community and investigate how these artists create their workFPA 8.3.D.4
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Students describe distinguishing characteristics of musical genres or styles from various historical periods and culturesFPA 8.3.M.1
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Students listen to a varied repertoire of music and explain the characteristics that cause a work to be considered historically or culturally significantFPA 8.3.M.2
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Students compare the purposes of music, roles of musicians, and environments in which music is typically performed in a variety of world culturesFPA 8.3.M.3
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Students investigate dramatic works as belonging to various cultures, times, and places.FPA 8.3.T.1
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Students explain how history, culture and theatre influence each other.FPA 8.3.T.2

Artistic Connections: Students relate the arts to other disciplines, careers and everyday life.

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Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual artsFPA 8.4.A.1
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Students explore visual arts careers and recreational opportunities and investigate the artistic skills needed for those opportunitiesFPA 8.4.A.2
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Students recognize the role of visual artists in their culture and investigate how these artists create their workFPA 8.4.A.3
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Students demonstrate appropriate behavior in a variety of art settingsFPA 8.4.A.4
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Students cite examples of concepts common between dance and other disciplinesFPA 8.4.D.1
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Students understand the relationships between various careers in and related to danceFPA 8.4.D.2
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Students identify personal goals to improve themselves as dancers and the steps they are taking to reach those goalsFPA 8.4.D.3
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Students are attentive and respond appropriately to vocal, musical, social or observed cues.FPA 8.4.D.4
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Students understand the economics of dance, including the role of advocacy and philanthropyFPA 8.4.D.5
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Students demonstrate safe, responsible and appropriate behavior in a variety of musical settingsFPA 8.4.M.1
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Students describe ways in which other disciplines are interrelated with musicFPA 8.4.M.2
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Students develop an awareness of careers, cultural and recreational opportunities in musicFPA 8.4.M.3
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Students discuss the economics of music, including the role of advocacyFPA 8.4.M.4
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Students demonstrate appropriate etiquette in a variety of theatrical settingsFPA 8.4.T.1
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Students demonstrate and practice safe and responsible behavior in theatrical spacesFPA 8.4.T.2
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Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of theatre are interrelated with other disciplinesFPA 8.4.T.3
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Students explore careers and recreational opportunities utilizing theatrical skillsFPA 8.4.T.4
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Students recognize the role of theatre artists in their culture and investigate how these artists create their workFPA 8.4.T.5
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Students understand the economics of the theatre, including the role of advocacy and philanthropyFPA 8.4.T.6

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8
When were these standards adopted?: 2013
Where can I read the official document?: Wyoming Fine and Performing Arts Content Standards

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