Curriculum+Level+3+The+Arts

Curriculum levels

=Level Three The Arts=

Dance
Students will: • Explore and describe dances from a variety of cultures. • Use the dance elements to develop and share their personal movement vocabulary. • Select and combine dance elements in response to a variety of stimuli. • Prepare and share dance movement individually and in pairs or groups. • Use the elements of dance to describe dance movements and respond to dances from a variety of cultures.

Drama
Students will: • Investigate the functions and purposes of drama in cultural and historical contexts. • Use techniques and relevant technologies to explore drama elements and conventions. • Initiate and develop ideas with others to create drama. • Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies combine to 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. • Explore and identify how sound is made and changed, as they listen and respond to music and apply knowledge of the elements of music, structural devices, and technologies. • Express and shape musical ideas, using musical elements, instruments, and technologies in response to sources of motivation. • Represent sound and musical ideas in a variety of ways. • Prepare and present brief performances of music, using performance skills and techniques. • Respond to and reflect on live and recorded music.

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 some 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. • Describe the ideas their own and others’ objects and images communicate.