Curriculum+Level+4+The+Arts

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Four The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures and contexts. • Apply the dance elements to extend personal movement skills and vocabularies and to explore the vocabularies of others. • Combine and contrast the dance elements to express images, ideas, and feelings in dance, using a variety of choreographic processes. • Prepare and present dance, with an awareness of the performance context. • Describe and record how the purpose of selected dances is expressed through the movement.

Drama
Students will: • Investigate the functions, purposes, and technologies of drama in cultural and historical contexts. • Select and use techniques and relevant technologies to develop drama practice. • Use conventions to structure drama. • Initiate and refi ne ideas with others to plan and develop drama. • Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies create meaning in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Identify and describe the characteristics of music associated with a range of sound environments, in relation to historical, social, and cultural contexts. • Explore ideas about how music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities. • Apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies through integrating aural, practical, and theoretical skills. • Express, develop, and refine musical ideas, using the elements of music, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation. • Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways. • Prepare, rehearse, and present performance of music, using performance skills and techniques. • Reflect on the expressive qualities of their own and others’ music, both live and recorded.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Investigate the purpose of objects and images from past and present cultures and identify the contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued. • Explore and use art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes. • Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works. • Explore and describe ways in which meanings can be communicated and interpreted in their own and others’ work.