Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 3

GA.1. Fine Arts: Dance

1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in more complex warm-up activities related to strength, muscular endurance, heart-lung endurance, and flexibility.

1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Refines skills in basic movements with props such as streamers, scarves, and hoops.

1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs combination of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased understanding of dance technique principles.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased understanding of spatial concepts (e.g., negative space, relationships, meeting and parting, unison and contrast, leading and following, and floor pattern).

1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates increased understanding of force (energy) through extended range of movement (e.g., suspended, swing-away, push-pull, heavy-light, collapse-rise).

1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds through movement to different timbre and music compositions.

1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Expresses thoughts, ideas, and feelings through structured improvisation.

1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Combines phrases of movement into simple composition (with and without accompaniment)

1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of compositional elements through movement (beginning, middle, end, transitions, dynamics)

1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates knowledge of dance terminology.

1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies positive work habits and self-discipline through dance activities.

1.13. Connections: Demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts (tempo, beat, accent, meter, and rhythm) through movement.

1.14. Connections: Demonstrates an understanding of dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

1.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops criteria for evaluating simple compositions.

1.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies characteristics unique to various types of theatre dance (e.g., ballet, jazz, tap, modern, etc.).

1.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Understands historical perspectives of different styles of dance in 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 instrumental and vocal styles through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes among string, woodwind, brass, percussion, and electronic instrumental families by sight and sound.

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

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

2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Sings in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs, and simple ostinato.

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs simple instrumental melodic patterns and rhythmic patterns by ear and from notation.

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

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates movements for musical dramatizations and interpretations.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple pentatonic improvisations on melodic instruments.

2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes scale patterns by ear and from notation in songs.

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains and follows text for multiple-stanza songs.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes and names such musical symbols as treble clef, notes, rests, and 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meter signatures.

2.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the names of the line and space notes of the treble staff.

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

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

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

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

2.19. 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: Identifies basic drama and theatre vocabulary (e.g., stage, role, pantomime, director).

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Applies cooperative group behavior in dramatic activities.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates sensory and emotional recall in drama activities.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Expresses mental images through dramatic actions.

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Imitates people, animals, and objects based on observations.

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Portrays a character's actions, motives, traits, and feelings through physical action.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Organizes and uses a designated playing area for classroom drama.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Communicates a character's actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings through voice, speech, and language.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Portrays a character's actions, motives, traits, and feelings in drama activities.

3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Finds and constructs simple technical elements for drama such as props, costumes, lights, and sound/music.

3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the role of the designer/technician.

3.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Locates and shares information that supports drama activities.

3.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Examines a variety of literature as a basis for drama activities (e.g., poetry, stories, and non-fiction).

3.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the role of the playwright.

3.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies and uses basic elements of drama: who, where, when, what, and why; beginning, middle, and end.

3.16. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plans a scenario based on a story or personal experience both individually and with a group.

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

3.18. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the role of the director in drama activities.

3.19. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses a variety of dramatic forms to communicate meaning including story drama, readers' theatre, pantomime, puppetry, poetry theatre, and 'process' drama.

3.20. 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).

3.21. Connections: Discusses similarities and differences among art forms.

3.22. Connections: Applies concepts and ideas from other disciplines, the basis for dramatization.

3.23. Connections: Dramatizes ideas, concepts and events based on the social studies curriculum topic (communities).

3.24. Connections: Uses existing technology to enhance drama/theatre activities.

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

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

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

3.28. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Critiques dramatic presentations in response to guided questions.

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

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

3.31. Historical and Cultural Context: Reads about and enacts drama that involves diverse cultural characters and themes.

GA.4. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates sculptures by construction (additive method) and by modeling (subtractive method).

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Produces art in each of the following art areas: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and crafts.

4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artwork using implied texture in two-dimensional shapes and actual texture in three-dimensional forms.

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks using direct observation, intermediate colors, lines (descriptive, directional, expressive), space (foreground, middleground, background), value (tints and shades), balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical), and emphasis.

4.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Produces artworks in the areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, crafts, fiber arts, and mixed media.

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

4.7. Connections: Applies concepts and ideas from other disciplines and their topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.

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

4.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes value as the lightness and darkness of a color.

4.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Compares and explains descriptive, directional, and expressive lines in artworks.

4.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explains how texture (implied and actual) is used in two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional forms.

4.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Points out division of space in artworks as foreground, middle ground, and background.

4.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes and compares symmetrical and asymmetrical balance in artworks.

4.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes how size, colors, lines, shapes, and textures are organized in artwork to create a focus or center of interest (emphasis).

4.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Distinguishes between original artwork and reproductions.

4.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses the purposes and functions of art in today's world.

4.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Examines other individuals' reasons for preferences in artworks.

4.18. Historical and Cultural Context: Associates artworks of a particular style with the culture from which the work was produced.

4.19. Historical and Cultural Context: Explains selected works of art as characteristic of the historical period in which each was produced.

4.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Places selected art reproductions in chronological order based on information (clues) within the artworks.

4.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Gives examples of how technology has influenced the creation of art.