Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 3

AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.

1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.

1.1.2. Students will refine the eight basic loco motor movements.

1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.

1.1.4. Students will refine non-loco motor/axial movements.

1.1.5. Students will combine loco motor steps in sequences.

1.1.6. Students will demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in accents.

1.1.7. Students will perform movements at high, middle, and low levels from the floor.

1.1.8. Students will maintain personal space while moving through general space using a combination of straight and zigzag lines.

1.1.9. Students will heighten kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.

1.1.10. Students will recognize dance from two different disciplines.

1.1.11. Students will define appropriate dance vocabulary.

1.1.12. Students will describe the elements used in a dance.

AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.

1.2.13. Students will define terminology associated with choreographic principals, processes, and structures.

1.2.14. Students will define and demonstrate stage directions.

1.2.15. Students will demonstrate consistency in including a beginning, middle, and ending to all choreography.

1.2.16. Students will demonstrate contrasting choreographic principles.

1.2.17. Students will demonstrate improvisation, leading, following, and mirroring.

1.2.18. Students will demonstrate the ability to work alone and cooperatively with others in creating and learning dances.

1.2.19. Students will demonstrate AB, ABA, canon, and narrative structures (dance that tells a story).

1.2.20. Students will discuss the purposes of dance.

1.2.21. Students will demonstrate the difference between pantomime and dance.

1.2.22. Students will create dance sequences that communicate emotion.

1.2.23. Students will choose from multiple solutions to dance problems the most interesting solutions and explain reasons for the choices.

1.2.24. Students will discuss opinions about dance compositions with peers in a positive and constructive manner.

1.2.25. Students will contrast dance compositions using the elements of dance. (Space (level and direction); Time (rhythm and tempo); Force (sustained and explosive))

1.2.26. Students will evaluate choreography in regard to a viewer's emotional reaction.

AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.

1.3.27. Students will analyze and perform dances from different time periods.

1.3.28. Students will analyze and perform folk and/or classical dances from America and various cultures.

1.3.29. Students will discuss the role and importance of dance in various cultures.

AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.

1.4.30. Students will explain the relationship of dance to a healthy body.

1.4.31. Students will explain ways to prevent dance injuries.

1.4.32. Students will create dances using another art form as the motivator.

1.4.33. Students will discuss the relationships between dance and other core disciplines

AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.

1.5.34. Students will explore the use of various sound media for creating sound accompaniment.

1.5.35. Students will evaluate performances and compositions using technology.

AL.2.1. General Music: Sing.

2.1.1. Students will sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.

2.1.2. Students will sing with proper vocal technique. (Pure head tone; Good diction; Good posture; on pitch; in rhythm; Breath control)

2.1.3. Students will sing songs representing diverse cultures.

2.1.4. Students will use age appropriate vocal range.

2.1.5. Students will sing expressively. (Technical accuracy; appropriate dynamics; Phrasing; Interpretation)

2.1.6. Students will respond to the cues of a conductor.

2.1.7. Students will sing obstinate, partner songs, and rounds.

AL.2.2. General Music: Perform on Instruments.

2.2.8. Students will perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing position.

2.2.9. Students will perform steady, strong, and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.

2.2.10. Students will perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments. (To music from diverse cultures; to movement; to poems, stories)

2.2.11. Students will perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.

2.2.12. Students will echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.

2.2.13. Students will perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.

2.2.14. Students will respond to the cues of the conductor.

2.2.15. Students will use rhythmic accompaniments to movement.

AL.2.3. General Music: Read/Notate.

2.3.16. Students will read simple rhythmic patterns. (Dotted half notes; Eighth rest)

2.3.17. Students will recognize and use standard notational symbols and terms.

2.3.18. Students will describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap, or as staying the same.

2.3.19. Students will use a system (symbols, numbers, or letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.

2.3.20. Students will identify notation on the staff by line space names.

AL.2.4. General Music: Listen, Analyze, and Describe.

2.4.21. Students will identify melodies of familiar songs by name.

2.4.22. Students will distinguish between high and low sounds.

2.4.23. Students will recognize and describe melodic contour. When y

2.4.24. Students will interpret melody through movement and discussion of those movements.

2.4.25. Students will distinguish between meters.

2.4.26. Students will recognize and label phrases.

2.4.27. Students will recognize and perform melodic and rhythmic motives.

2.4.28. Students will recognize and perform simple song forms. (AB; ABA; Rondo)

2.4.29. Students will recognize instruments by sight and sound. (Classroom and folk instruments; selected orchestral instruments)

2.4.30. Students will categorize instruments by how the sound is produced and by families.

AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.

2.5.31. Students will improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.

2.5.32. Students will create variations and accompaniments.

2.5.33. Students will express musical ideas using creative movement, body percussion, classroom instruments, body sounds, and vocal sounds.

2.5.34. Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.

2.5.35. Students will compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.

2.5.36. Students will compose and arrange simple songs and instrumental pieces.

2.5.37. Students will compose melodies and ostinatos.

AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.

2.6.38. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.

2.6.39. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.

AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.

2.7.40. Students will identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.

2.7.41. Students will correlate music in relation to history and culture.

AL.3.1. Theatre: History.

3.1.1. Students will discover common subjects and ideas in stories from different cultures through dramatic activities.

3.1.2. Students will engage in dramatic activities that depict characters from diverse historical periods and cultures.

3.1.3. Students will discuss how theater reflects life.

3.1.4. Students will identify ways to view dramatic work. (Theatre; Film; Television; Electronic media productions)

AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.

3.2.5. Students will articulate emotional responses to the whole, as well as the parts, of dramatic performances.

3.2.6. Students will evaluate the believability of theatrical performances.

2.7.7 Students will identify the who, what, when, where, and why in theatre experiences.

3.2.8. Students will describe characters, their relationships, and their environments.

3.2.9. Students will articulate the different goals and feelings of characters.

3.2.10. Students will explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their own.

3.2.11. Students will describe the sensory elements of a dramatic performance. (Visual; Aural; Oral; Kinetic)

3.2.12. Students will identify ways lighting, costumes, sound effects, makeup, props, and sets enhance dramatic presentations.

AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.

3.3.13. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.

3.3.14. Students will respond to sensory stimuli in all the arts.

3.3.15. Students will analyze how movement, music, and/or visual elements enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization and/or theatre production.

AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.

3.4.16. Students will suggest alternative ideas for settings, characters, and endings.

3.4.17. Students will communicate locale and mood by designing and constructing environments for a production using visual and aural elements. (Scenery; Properties; Lighting; Sound; Costume; Makeup)

3.4.18. Students will collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

3.4.19. Students will apply concepts of beginning, middle, and ending to stories and dramatizations.

3.4.20. Students will collaborate to plan and rehearse improvisations.

3.4.21. Students will participate in a variety of ways of staging classroom dramatizations. (See Theatre-Related Resources-Reader's Theatre.)

3.4.22. Students will use movement to explore thought, feeling, and roles from life, literature, and history.

3.4.23. Students will assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, literature, and history.

3.4.24. Students will identify the responsibilities of a director. (Select the script; Choose the cast; Organize rehearsals; Plan coordination of those in charge of lights, sound, set, costumes; Plan staging)

3.4.25. Students will demonstrate ability to cooperate with a director.

AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.

4.1.1. Students will identify different periods of art.

4.1.2. Students will relate some of the symbols different cultures use to portray common themes.

4.1.3. Students will discuss the lives and times of artists based on the contents of their art work.

4.1.4. Students will describe subject matter in works of art. (Still Life; Landscape; Portrait; Genre pieces)

4.1.5. Students will compare different types of art media. (Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture)

4.1.6. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Elements of art: line, shape, and form, color, texture, value, space; Principles of design: balance, rhythm/repetition, movement, emphasis, variety, unity/harmony, proportion)

4.1.7. Students will identify styles produced by individual artists.

4.1.8. Students will describe how artists express ideas in works of art.

4.1.9. Students will compare differences in artistic styles.

4.1.10. Students will discuss how art reflects and records history in various cultures.

4.1.11. Students will describe ways people are involved in visual arts within a community.

AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.

4.2.12. Students will use vocabulary associated with looking at and talking about art.

4.2.13. Students will describe the function of design within the environment.

4.2.14. Students will describe subject matter, elements of art, and principles of design used in works of art.

4.2.15. Students will identify the focal point or center of interest, foreground, background, middle ground, and balance in a work of art.

4.2.16. Students will identify specific media in a work of art.

4.2.17. Students will discuss the emotional content of a variety of works of art.

4.2.18. Students will use art terms to evaluate and justify an opinion about a work of art.

AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.

4.3.19. Students will discuss how value, harmony, balance, and unity make a work of art aesthetically pleasing.

4.3.20. Students will identify and discuss the relationships among works of art, individuals, and the societies in which they are created.

4.3.21. Students will discuss the ways art is created as a response to images, forms, nature, and experiences.

4.3.22. Students will identify the different effects of positioning objects in a work of art.

4.3.23. Students will discuss how society expresses changes in values and beliefs through art forms.

4.3.24. Students will identify art in everyday life.

4.3.25. Students will compare and contrast different interpretations of the same subject or theme in art.

4.3.26. Students will investigate the visual and tactile qualities of the world around them.

4.3.27. Students will describe the visual characteristics of forms that are natural and man-made.

4.3.28. Students will use technology to investigate visual images.

AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.

4.4.29. Students will use art materials and tools safely.

4.4.30. Students will reproduce and create different visual and tactical textures.

4.4.31. Students will produce graphic symbols, signs, and posters to communicate ideas.

4.4.32. Students will use the elements of art and principles of design to create a work of art. (Elements-line, shape and form, color, texture, value, space; Principles-rhythm/repetition, balance, emphasis, variety, unity/harmony movement)

4.4.33. Students will investigate different careers in the visual arts. (See Arts-related Careers.)

4.4.34. Students will describe different methods of production.

4.4.35. Students will recognize color schemes. (Primary; Secondary; Intermediate (tertiary))

4.4.36. Students will experiment with mixing colors.

4.4.37. Students will produce art using different two-dimensional media and processes.

4.4.38. Students will produce art with a variety of three-dimensional media and processes.

4.4.39. Students will use multimedia and technology to create visual imagery and design.