Standards

Content Standard 9: Understanding music in relation to history and culture
Achievement Standard: Students identify various uses of music in their daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use

National Standards for Arts Education

Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

 

Achievement Standard: Students use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories

 

2. Understands family life today and how it compares with family life in the recent past and family life long ago (e.g., roles, jobs, schooling experiences)

3. Knows the cultural similarities and differences in clothes, homes, food, communication, technology, and cultural traditions between families now and in the past

4.  Understands family life in a community of the past and life in a community of the present (e.g., roles, jobs, communication, technology, style of homes, transportation, schools, religious observances, cultural traditions)

 

Standard 9: Understands the general nature and uses of mathematics

Benchmark 2: Understands that mathematical ideas and concepts can be represented concretely, graphically, and symbolically

 

Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process

 

8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)

5. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, organization, point of view; determines knowledge and interests of audience) to write for different audiences (e.g., self, peers, teachers, adults)

6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)

Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes

 

1. Makes contributions in class and group discussions (e.g., reports on ideas and personal knowledge about a topic, initiates conversations, connects ideas and experiences with those of others)

1. Contributes to group discussions

7. Makes basic oral presentations to class (e.g., uses subject-related information and vocabulary; includes content appropriate to the audience; relates ideas and observations; incorporates visual aids or props; incorporates several sources of information)

Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media

 

1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)

 

1. Understands different messages conveyed through visual media (e.g., main ideas and supporting details; facts and opinions; main characters, setting, and sequence of events in visual narratives)