Grade 2 Fine Arts Oregon Standards

Explore movement inspired by a variety of stimuli and suggest additional sources for movement ideas.

Describe, create, and/or perform a dance that expresses personal meaning.

Explain how certain movements express this personal meaning.

Read or write a story and dance it.

Create a dance phrase with a clear beginning, middle, and end that has a main idea.

Draw a map or picture of the dance.

Make choices to change movement from guided improvisation and/or short remembered sequences.

Identify the length of time (duration) a move or phrase takes (e.g., whether it is long or short).

Choose and demonstrate movement qualities appropriate to different music selections and movement contexts.

Demonstrate a range of locomotor and non-locomotor movements and basic dance combinations that require moving through space using a variety of pathways.

Adjust and modify movements and spatial arrangements upon request.

Use simple production elements (e.g., hand props or simple scenery) while performing dance for others.

Identify a movement from a dance that suggests an idea.

Explain how the movement captures the idea using simple dance terminology (e.g., gallop, bend, turn).

Observe different dances and discuss characteristics of the dances that make them work well.

Explain why, using simple dance terminology.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Perceive and analyze artistic work. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Discover multiple ideas for media artworks through brainstorming and improvising.

Use personal experiences, interests, information, and models in creating media artworks.

Discuss how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life, such as media messages and media environments.

Interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.

Choose ideas to create plans and models for media arts productions.

Construct and assemble content for unified media arts productions, identifying and applying basic principles, such as positioning and attention.

Test and describe expressive effects in altering, refining, and completing media artworks.

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media content into unified media artworks, such as a narrated science animation.

Enact roles to demonstrate basic ability in various identified artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, such as tool use and collaboration in media arts productions.

Demonstrate use of experimentation skills, such as playful practice, and trial and error, within and through media arts productions.

Demonstrate and explore identified methods to use tools to capture and form media artworks.

Identify and describe presentation conditions and perform task(s) in presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the experience and share results of presenting media artworks.

Identify and describe the components and messages in media artworks.

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks, considering their context.

Discuss the effectiveness of and improvements for media artworks, considering their context.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

Generate musical patterns and ideas within the context of a given tonality (such as major and minor) and meter (such as duple and triple).

Demonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting patterns and ideas for music that represent expressive intent.

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.

Interpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal music.

Convey expressive intent for a specific purpose by presenting a final version of personal musical ideas to peers or informal audience.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Describe how specific music concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music.

Apply established criteria to judge the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Demonstrate understanding of expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts (such as tonality and meter) in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Synthesize ideas from research, script analysis, and context to create a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant in a drama/theatre work.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using iconic or standard notation.

Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Perform appropriately for the audience and purpose.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Rehearse, identify and apply strategies to address interpretive, performance, and technical challenges of music.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Explain and demonstrate how personal interests and experiences influence musical selection for specific purposes.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Demonstrate and explain personal interest in, knowledge about, and purpose of varied musical selections.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Apply personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Propose potential new details to plot and story in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to conceptualize scenery in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify ways in which voice and sounds may be used to create or retell a story in guided drama experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Relate character experiences to personal experiences in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Identify similarities and differences in stories from multiple cultures in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on the creation of a short scene based on a non-fiction literary source in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate with peers to devise meaningful dialogue in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute ideas and make decisions as a group to advance a story in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute to the adaptation of dialogue in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use and adapt sounds and movements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Generate independently multiple representations of a single object in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama.

Interpret story elements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Alter voice and body to expand and articulate nuances of a character in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Demonstrate the relationship between and among body, voice, and mind in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Explore technical elements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Contribute to group guided drama experiences (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) and informally share with peers.

Recognize when artistic choices are made in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Explain how personal preferences and emotions affect an observer's response in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama), or age-appropriate theatre performance.

Identify causes and consequences of character actions in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, or creative drama).

Explain or use text and pictures to describe how others' emotions and choices may compare to the emotions and choices of characters in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Collaborate on a scene in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Use a prop or costume in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) to describe characters, settings, or events.

Describe how characters respond to challenges in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Make art or design with various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity.

Share imaginative ways that art works could be used to communicate a narrative, experience or idea.

Collaboratively brainstorm multiple approaches to a problem.

Create works of art about events in home, school or community life (e.g. narrative, documentation).

Discuss and describe the meaning and purpose of an artwork.

Compare and contrast cultural uses of artwork from different times and places.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made, cultural influences & global perspectives.

Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.

Demonstrate safe procedures for using and cleaning art tools and equipment and studio spaces.

Repurpose objects to make something new.

Improve and elaborate on aesthetic and technical aspects of artwork based on classroom discussion.

Using art vocabulary, describe personal artistic choices.

Utilize personal reflection and critical feedback to refine technical proficiency, intentionality, aesthetic judgment and expressive capability.

Organize their artwork in a portfolio and explain the process.

Learn about materials or artistic techniques for preparing artwork for presentation.

Identify and explain the roles and responsibilities of the spaces and people who work in and visit museums and other art venues. (e.g. galleries, virtual, public spaces)

Analyze how art exhibited inside and outside of schools (such as in museums, galleries, virtual spaces, and other venues) contribute to communities.

Select art objects for personal portfolio and display and explain why they were chosen.

Explain why some objects, artifacts, and artworks are preferred.

Select artwork based on a theme or concept for an exhibit.

Distinguish between different types of art (i.e. 2D & 3D) and what it represents.

Compare images that represent the same subject in different media.

Categorize visual imagery based on expressive properties (i.e. content, formal elements of art and principles of design).

Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and basic art elements.

Use art vocabulary to express preferences about an artwork.