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Curriculum levels

=Level Two The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Identify and describe dance in their lives and in their communities. • Explore and identify, through movement, the dance elements of body,space, time, energy, and relationships. • Use the elements of dance in purposeful ways to respond to a variety of stimuli. • Share dance movement through informal presentation and identify the use of the elements of dance.

Drama
Students will: • Identify and describe how drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and their communities. • Explore and use elements of drama for different purposes. • Develop and sustain ideas in drama, based on personal experience and imagination. • Share drama through informal presentation and respond to elements of drama in their own and others’ work.

Music – Sound Arts
Students will: • Explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments and recognise that music serves a variety of purposes and functions in their lives and in their communities. • Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to the elements of music and structural devices. • Improvise, explore, and express musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination. • Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas. • Share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques. • Respond to live and recorded music.

Visual Arts
Students will: • Share ideas about how and why their own and others’ works are made and their purpose, value, and context. • Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles. • Investigate and develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination. • Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.