Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 2

GA.1. Fine Arts: Dance

1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in developmental warm-up exercises.

1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in activities using principles of dance technique.

1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates nonlocomotor axial movement, such as bending, twisting, and swinging.

1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates locomotor movement, such as walking, running, and hopping, and concepts, such as transfer of weight and change of direction.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops awareness of spatial concepts (e.g., self-space and general space).

1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates shapes and level changes through movement.

1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of force (energy) (e.g., smooth, tight, loose, and vibratory).

1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to move in various directions and patterns.

1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to steady beat or changes in tempo through movement.

1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Improvises movement based on own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness.

1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Acquires skills in basic movements using props, such as streamers, scarves, and hoops.

1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to work with a partner.

1.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

1.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops self-discipline and positive work habits through dance.

1.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains how health, nutrition, and safety enhance dance ability.

1.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops the ability to describe one's own dance as well as another's dance.

1.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies within a dance sequence a beginning, middle, and end.

1.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies various approaches to solving a compositional question.

1.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Implements various approaches to solving a compositional question.

1.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes, compares, and contrasts movement and dances.

1.22. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Begins to understand criteria for evaluating simple composition.

1.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in dance activities representing a variety of cultures.

GA.2. Fine Arts: General Music

2.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to music in a variety of styles through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies basic elements of music: dynamics, melodic direction, rhythmic patterns, tempo, simple meter, movement by step and leap.

2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes among repeating and contrasting phrases, sections and simple formal structures -- AB and ABA.

2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes the sounds of classroom, folk, and orchestral instruments.

2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with increasing accuracy in pitch, dynamic level, and tone quality by singing developmentally appropriate songs.

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs up-down and step-leap patterns on melody instruments and from prenotation symbols, such as line notation, and by imitation.

2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs the steady beat, accented beat, and melodic rhythm patterns in familiar songs.

2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs simple melodic and rhythmic ostinati to accompany songs.

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in singing games, action songs, simple folk dances, musical dramatizations, and creative movement.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple compositions using body percussion, environmental, and classroom instrument sounds.

2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple rhythmic and melodic accompaniments for songs.

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates new texts for familiar songs.

2.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes personal response to listening selections.

2.15. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in musical activities representing a variety of cultures, focusing on stylistic concepts.

GA.3. Fine Arts: Theatre Arts

3.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes simple drama and theatre terms (e.g., pretend, character, actor).

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates cooperative interaction in drama activities.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recalls and relates details of sensory and emotional experiences.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses imagination to portray objects and environments in drama activities.

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses movement to communicate thought, feelings, and mood of characters.

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Designates playing areas in the classroom for dramatizations.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Communicates ideas, feelings, and characters through voice, speech, and language.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies a character's actions, traits, and feelings through assuming roles in drama activities.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses available materials to arrange or create simple scenery, costumes, props, and sound/music for drama activities.

3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Locates information about topics that become the content for dramas.

3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Defines the basic elements of drama: who, what, when, where, and why.

3.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plans and develops simple dramas in a group setting.

3.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Dramatizes literature and original stories through story drama, pantomime, process drama, puppetry, and/or readers' theatre.

3.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates an understanding that different types of literature can be enacted.

3.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in and communicates through the creative drama process in a group setting: Pre-Playing (participates in warm-up activities, generates ideas about story, topic or theme); Preparation (listens to story and discusses ideas, determines drama elements: who, when, where, and what; sequence of actions); Playing (assumes roles in drama); Evaluation/Reflection (critiques playing, discusses meaning); Replay (builds on suggestions, enhances with simple technical elements); Sharing (shares drama with the group).

3.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Compares the writing process to the creative drama process.

3.17. Connections: Explores content from language arts, science, math, foreign languages and fine arts through dramatic activities.

3.18. Connections: Differentiates between theatre and other arts forms.

3.19. Connections: Uses existing technology to enhance dramatic play, narrated pantomime, story dramas, and other drama activities.

3.20. Connections: Dramatizes ideas, concepts, and events based on the Social Studies curriculum Neighborhoods and Cultures and Customs Now and Then.

3.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explains personal preferences about dramatic presentations.

3.22. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes implicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

3.23. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes explicit main ideas, details, sequences of events, and cause-effect relationships in dramatic presentations.

3.24. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Responds to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about dramatic presentations.

3.25. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community, and professional resources for theatre experiences.

3.26. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes role and responsibility of the audience.

3.27. Historical and Cultural Context: Identifies similarities and differences in cultures by enacting stories, folklore, and literature from various countries and historical periods.

GA.4. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Mixes white with colors to create tints and black with colors to create shades (values).

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.

4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks (drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media arts) emphasizing one or more of the arts elements, e.g., warm and cool colors, line, shape, form, texture, value, and the principles of movement, rhythm, repetition (pattern), and spatial techniques (overlapping, size placement of shapes).

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks based on close observation of familiar objects (representational artworks).

4.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of materials and tools.

4.6. Connections: Discusses how culture and environment provide inspiration for creating artworks.

4.7. Connections: Applies concepts and ideas from another discipline and its topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.

4.8. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes red, yellow, and orange as warm colors and green, blue, and violet as cool colors.

4.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes tints and shades in artworks.

4.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Differentiates horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.

4.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explains how space surrounds two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional forms.

4.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates how artists use spatial techniques such as overlapping, size, and placement of shapes.

4.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies symmetrical (formal) and radial balance in artworks and in nature.

4.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses how artists create movement and rhythm in selected artworks.

4.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Examines two artworks of the same subject identifying similarities and differences.

4.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses expressive qualities of artworks and gives personal interpretation of each.

4.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses and compares own definition of art with that of others.

4.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses why people make art.

4.19. Historical and Cultural Context: Makes statements about the functions (purposes) of particular artworks and the culture that produced them.

4.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains the use of symbols and cultural icons in selected artworks, such as flags, jewelry, uniforms, products, and company logos.