Delaware State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 1

DE.1. Music: Students will sing, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.A. Students will sing on pitch and in rhythm with good vocal tone, technique, diction, and posture while maintaining a steady tempo.

1.B. Students will sing expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

1.C. Students will sing a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles of diverse cultures.

1.D. Students will sing partner songs, rounds, and songs with ostinatos.

1.E. Students will sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

DE.2. Music: Students will perform on instruments, independently and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.A. Students will perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics while maintaining a steady tempo.

2.B. Students will perform expressively, using given dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

2.C. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles, echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.

2.D. Students will perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the gestures of a conductor.

2.E. Students will perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

DE.3. Music: Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.A. Students will improvise melodies using a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sounds.

3.B. Students will improvise short melodies that are unaccompanied, performed over given rhythmic accompaniments, or performed over simple chord progressions, meter, and tonality.

3.C. Students will improvise simple ostinato (repeated patterns) accompaniments.

DE.4. Music: Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

4.A. Students will create short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.B. Students will arrange short songs and instrumental pieces.

4.C. Students will use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronically produced sound sources when composing.

DE.5. Music: Students will read and notate music.

5.A. Students will read and perform whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple meter.

5.B. Students will read and perform pitch direction using a system of musical syllables, numbers, or letters.

5.C. Students will identify symbols and terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation, and interpret them correctly when performing.

5.D. Students will use symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns with the aid of manipulatives and computer programs.

DE.6. Music: Students will listen to, describe, and analyze music and music performances.

6.A. Students will listen and move to music that contains changes and contrasts of musical elements.

6.B. Students will listen and identify the sounds of a variety of instruments and voices.

6.C. Students will use movement and dialog to describe various styles of music.

6.D. Students will identify the elements of music by listening.

6.E. Students will identify simple music forms by listening.

DE.7. Music: Students will evaluate music and music performances.

7.A. Students will identify ways for evaluating compositions and performances.

7.B. Students will explain personal preferences for specific musical works and styles using appropriate music terminology.

7.D. Students will evaluate a given musical work and determine what musical qualities or elements were used to evoke feelings and emotions.

DE.8. Music: Students will make connections between music, the other arts, and other curricular areas.

8.A. Students will cite similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various art forms.

8.C. Students will identify ways in which principles and subject matter of other disciplines are interrelated with those of music.

DE.9. Music: Students will understand music in relation to diverse cultures, times and places.

9.A. Students will listen to examples of music from various historical periods and diverse cultures by genre or style.

9.B. Students will describe how elements of music are used in music of various cultures.

9.C. Students will describe the roles of musicians in various cultures.

DE.1. Visual Arts: Students will select and use form, media, techniques, and processes to create works of art to communicate meaning.

1.A. Students will know that different media, techniques, and processes are used to create works of art.

1.B. Students will understand that various media, techniques, and processes create different effects in works of art.

1.C. Students will experiment with and use a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to develop manipulative skills.

1.D. Students will employ a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories in works of art.

1.E. Students will use media and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

DE.2. Visual Arts: Students will create ways to use visual, spatial, and temporal concepts in creating works of art.

2.A. Students will recognize, name, and apply the visual components of art and design (i.e., line, color, value, shape and form, space, texture).

2.B. Students will recognize, name, and apply the organizational components of art and design (i.e., balance, unity, contrast, pattern, emphasis, movement, rhythm).

2.C. Students will understand that creating works of art involves the development of ideas across time.

2.D. Students will select and apply knowledge of the visual and organizational components, sensory and expressive qualities, and purposes of art and design in order to convey ideas in their own works of art.

DE.3. Visual Arts: Students will invent, select, evaluate, and use subjects, themes, symbols, problems, and ideas to create works of art.

3.A. Students will explore and understand possible sources of subjects and ideas for creating works of art.

3.B. Students will select and use subjects, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning in works of art.

DE.4. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to diverse cultures, times, and a places.

4.A. Students will discover how the various roles of the visual arts are a part of daily life.

4.B. Students will recognize that the visual arts have a history.

4.C. Students will understand that characteristics of works of art identify them as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

4.D. Students will know how cultures, times, and places influence the visual arts.

4.E. Students will understand differences in purpose and distinguish between functional and nonfunctional works of art and design in various cultures, times, and places.

DE.5. Visual Arts: Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art and design.

5.A. Students will understand that the visual arts are forms of communication for the expression of ideas, actions, and emotions.

5.B. Students will understand and apply visual arts vocabulary when observing and describing works of art.

5.C. Students will recognize and explore various purposes for creating works of art.

5.D. Students will describe how individual experiences influence the creation of specific works of art.

5.E. Students will examine characteristics of works of art that evoke various responses from viewers.

DE.6. Visual Arts: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to other disciplines.

6.A. Students will recognize similarities between characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

6.B. Students will recognize relationships between the characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.

6.C. Students will recognize and understand how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the work force and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.1. Theatre: Students will improvise and write scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

1.A. Students will understand the structure of a play by viewing a performance.

1.B. Students will explore and understand possible sources for play making.

1.C. Students will make a play by improvising characters, environments, and situations.

1.D. Students will recognize the importance of collaboration.

1.E. Students will identify different types of plays (e.g., comedy, drama, musical theatre, opera).

DE.2. Theatre: Students will act in informal or formal presentations.

2.A. Students will define and distinguish the vocal, physical, intellectual, and emotional traits of various characters.

2.B. Students will develop the skills of memory and sensory recall.

2.C. Students will imagine and enact characters and their relationships in given environments.

2.D. Students will learn how to pursue an objective using different tactics.

DE.3. Theatre: Students will design and build environments for informal or formal presentations.

3.A. Students will examine an environment or space to determine movement patterns and communication facilitation.

3.B. Students will select, organize, and invent scenery and props for an environment.

3.C. Students will use traditional and nontraditional types and sources of sound and lighting to communicate locale and mood for imagined environments.

3.D. Students will use costumes and makeup to communicate character and mood.

DE.4. Theatre: Students will direct by envisioning and realizing scenes.

4.A. Students will explain the meaning of improvised or scripted scenes, scenarios, and/or plays.

4.B. Students will make staging choices (i.e., blocking, movement, choreography) to convey meaning.

4.C. Students will explain character action and relationships.

4.D. Students will identify and explain narrative elements.

DE.5. Theatre: Students will manage and produce informal or formal presentations.

5.A. Students will collaborate to plan and organize space for an audience to experience informal presentations.

5.B. Students will promote an informal presentation.

DE.6. Theatre: Students will compare and integrate art forms.

6.A. Students will identify the basic characteristic elements of the various art forms.

6.B. Students will select movement, music, and/or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.

6.C. Students will discuss the dramatic art forms of theatre, film, and television.

6.D. Students will recognize how the meaningful integration of visual and performing arts concepts and skills with knowledge in other disciplines provides essential tools for the workforce and improves the quality of everyday life.

DE.7. Theatre: Students will respond to, describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatre works and performances.

7.A. Students will identify and describe the elements of dramatic presentations.

7.B. Students will share individual responses to dramatic presentations.

DE.8. Theatre: Students will understand theatre works in relation to cultures, times, and places.

8.A. Students will recognize that the theatre arts have a history.

8.B. Students will describe characteristics of theatre pieces which identify themes belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

8.C. Students will explain how cultures, times, and places influence theatre arts.

8.D. Students will understand that communication (e.g., verbal, nonverbal, written) is a part of daily life.

8.E. Students will examine theatre arts careers and the roles of drama professionals in society.

DE.1. Dance: Students will identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

1.A. Students will demonstrate nonlocomotor axial movements (e.g., bend, twist, stretch, swing) and basic locomotor movements (e.g., walk, run, hop, jump, leap, gallop, slide, and skip), traveling in a forward, backward, sideward, diagonal, and curved path.

1.B. Students will identify and demonstrate basic dance steps and positions from one style or tradition.

1.C. Students will demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.

1.D. Students will demonstrate kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.

1.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize personal space.

1.F. Students will demonstrate memorization and reproduction of a simple movement sequence.

1.G. Students will demonstrate understanding of a basic physical warm up.

1.H. Students will make adjustments to teacher-initiated technique correction.

DE.2. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.A. Students will create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.

2.B. Students will use improvisation to discover and invent movement.

2.C. Students will create a movement sequence with a beginning, middle and end.

2.D. Students will create and perform a movement study based on their own ideas.

2.E. Students will demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively with a partner in the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.

DE.3. Dance: Students will respond to and evaluate the making of dance.

3.A. Students will describe how everyday movement and feelings can be transformed through dance.

3.B. Students will create a solution to a movement problem and discuss their solutions.

3.C. Students will describe their reactions to a dance (seen both live and on film and/or video).

3.D. Students will observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different.

3.E. Students will begin to use dance terminology to describe movement.

3.F. Students will demonstrate appropriate audience behavior while watching dance performances.

DE.4. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance from various cultures, times, and places.

4.A. Students will perform dances from various cultures and historical periods (folk, social, sacred, court, and/or theatrical).

4.B. Students will understand the functions of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., in Colonial America, why and in what settings did people dance? What did the dances look like?).

DE.5. Dance: Students will make connections between dance and other disciplines.