Standards

Content Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Achievement Standard: Students demonstrate perceptual skills by moving, by answering questions about, and by describing aural examples of music of various styles representing diverse cultures 

National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)

Standard 5: Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of geometry 

Grades K-2 

1. Understands basic properties of (e.g., number of sides, corners, square corners) and similarities and differences between simple geometric shapes 

3. Understands that geometric shapes are useful for representing and describing real world situations

4. Understands that patterns can be made by putting different shapes together or taking them apart

 

 1. Knows basic geometric language for describing and naming shapes (e.g., trapezoid, parallelogram, cube, sphere)

McRel National Education Standards 

Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts 

Grades K-2 

3. Summarizes information found in texts (e.g., retells in own words)

 

1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts (e.g., textbooks, biographical sketches, letters, diaries, directions, procedures, magazines)

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)

 

 

Standard 4: The Physical and Human Characteristics of Places 

McRel National Education Standards