Grade 3 Fine Arts Oregon Standards

Experiment with a variety of self-identified stimuli for movement (e.g., text, images, observed dance, personal experiences).

Compare the relationships expressed in a dance to relationships in one's own life.

Explain how they are the same or different.

Observe a dance and relate the movement to the people or environment in which the dance was created and performed.

Create a simple movement combination using other dance structures (e.g., AB, ABA, theme and variation, repetition) that may express an idea or feeling.

Revise movement choices in response to feedback to improve a short dance combination.

Describe the differences the changes made in the movements.

Fill specified duration of time with movement and differentiate between "in time" and "out of time" to music.

Change use of energy and dynamics by modifying movements and applying specific characteristics to heighten the effect of their intent.

Demonstrate dance combinations with a partner or in a group combining body shapes and movement patterns.

Adjust body-use to coordinate with others to safely execute movement with an awareness of body alignment.

Explore simple production elements (e.g., costumes, props, music, scenery, lighting) for a dance performed for an audience in a designated specific performance space.

Identify and describe elements of dance (e.g., body parts, shapes, movement patterns, relationships, use of space, time, and effort) in an observed dance from a specific genre or culture.

Select dance movements from specific genres or cultures.

Identify characteristic movements from these dances and describe in basic dance terminology ways in which they are alike and different.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

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

Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.

Use personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks.

Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and can influence values and online behavior.

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

Form, share, and test ideas, plans, and models to prepare for media arts productions.

Structure and arrange various content and components to convey purpose and meaning in different media arts productions, applying sets of associated principles, such as balance and contrast.

Demonstrate intentional effect in refining media artworks, emphasizing elements for a purpose.

Practice combining varied academic, arts, and media forms and content into unified media artworks, such as animation, music, and dance.

Exhibit developing ability in a variety of artistic, design, technical, and organizational roles, such as making compositional decisions, manipulating tools, and group planning in media arts productions.

Exhibit basic creative skills to invent new content and solutions within and through media arts productions.

Exhibit standard use of tools and techniques while constructing media artworks.

Identify and describe the presentation conditions, and take on roles and processes in presenting or distributing media artworks.

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

Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks.

Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context.

Identify basic criteria for and evaluate media artworks, considering possible improvements and context.

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

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent.

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

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.

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

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

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

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers' interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

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

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal and social).

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Refine and complete 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.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama/theatre work.

Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a drama/theatre work.

Collaborate to determine how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in drama/theatre work.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama/theatre work.

Explore how stories are adapted from literature to drama/theatre work.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama/theatre conventions.

Participate in methods of investigation to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work.

Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group drama/theatre work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama theatre work.

Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Practice and refine design and technical choices to support a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Apply the elements of dramatic structure to a story and create a drama/theatre work.

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into drama/theatre work.

Participate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/theatre work.

Identify the basic technical elements that can be used in drama/theatre work.

Practice drama/theatre work and share reflections individually and in small groups.

Understand why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work.

Consider multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Consider multiple ways to develop a character using physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural perspectives in drama/theatre

Examine how connections are made between oneself and a character's emotions in drama/theatre work.

Understand how and why groups evaluate drama/theatre work.

Consider and analyze technical elements from multiple drama/theatre works.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

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

Analyze, interpret and select artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Generate ideas for narrative or events that could be the basis of art works using personal experiences (e.g. diagram or map places that are part of the student's everyday life)

Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate one's own ideas through the art-making process.

Constructively use and explore materials in creating a work of art or design to communicate an idea.

Create works of art based on observations of surroundings.

Identify and show how artwork forms meanings, situations and/or culture (e.g. popular culture, online and local experiences).

Through observation, interpret information about time, place and culture in which a work of art was created.

Identify how artworks and ideas relate to everyday and cultural life and can influence values and perceptions.

Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of the students' everyday lives.

Refine and adapt media art works in consideration of audience, and the context of the work.

Choose from experimental approaches and techniques to determine the most effective solution.

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

Select artworks to put into their portfolio and explain why they chose those specific works.

Collect and organize a body of evidence that reflects the artistic process and prepare it for presentation (e.g. sketchbook).

Write an artist's statement that reflects their learning.

Compare and contrast how art exhibited in and outside of school in museums, galleries, and other venues, including virtual spaces, contributes to the community.

Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

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

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

Investigate possibilities and limitations of a variety of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Distinguish between different types of art (i.e. 2D & 3D) and determine messages communicated.

Describe 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.

Interpret art by analyzing use of media.

Use art vocabulary to express preferences about an artwork.

Using visual evidence, evaluate an artwork based on a given criteria. (e.g. artistic styles, genres & media, historical & cultural contexts)