Curriculum+Level+1+The+Arts

=Curriculum levels= = = =Level One The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Demonstrate an awareness of dance in their lives and in their communities. • Explore movement with a developing awareness of the dance elements of body, space, time, energy, and relationships. • Improvise and explore movement ideas in response to a variety of stimuli. • Share dance movement through informal presentation and share their thoughts and feelings in response to their own and others’ dances.

Drama
Students will: • Demonstrate an awareness that drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities. • Explore the elements of role, focus, action, tension, time, and space through dramatic play. • Contribute and develop ideas in drama, using personal experience and imagination. • Share drama through informal presentation and respond to ways in which drama tells stories and conveys ideas 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 how sound is made, as they listen and respond to the elements of music: beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour. • Explore and express sounds and musical ideas, drawing on personal experience, listening, and imagination. • Explore ways to represent sound and musical ideas. • Share music making with others. • 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 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.