Standards
Music
Grades K-4
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 Students identify and describe roles of musicians (e.g., orchestra conductor, folksinger, church organist) in various music settings and cultures
National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)
Theater
Grades K-4
Content Standard 3: Designing by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations
Achievement Standard: Students collaborate to establish playing spaces for classroom dramatizations and to select and safely organize available materials that suggest scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup
National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)
History
Standard 1: Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago
Grades K-2
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)
5. Understands personal family or cultural heritage through stories, songs, and celebrations
Language Arts
Writing
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
Grades K-2
8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
Grades 3-5
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)
Listening & Speaking
Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
Grades K-2
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)
Grades 3-5
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)
Viewing
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
Grades K-2
1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)
Grades 3-5
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)
