Alabama State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4
AL.1.1. Dance: Movement Elements and Skills.
1.1.1. Students will demonstrate proper body alignment.
1.1.2. Students will combine two or more loco motor movements in a repeating pattern.
1.1.3. Students will demonstrate laterality.
1.1.4. Students will combine two or more non-loco motor/axial movements using different energies.
1.1.5. Students will demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in meter.
1.1.6. Students will perform movements on high, middle, and low levels from the floor.
1.1.7. Students will maintain personal space while moving through general space using a combination of straight lines, curving lines, and zigzags.
1.1.8. Students will heighten kinesthetic awareness in performing movement skills.
1.1.9. Students will recognize a variety of dance forms.
1.1.10. Students will describe the elements used in a dance.
1.1.11. Students will perform movement sequences without assistance.
1.1.12. Students will transfer a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic.
1.1.13. Students will define appropriate dance vocabulary.
AL.1.2. Dance: Creation, Production, and Evaluation.
1.2.14. Students will define terminology associated with choreographic principals, processes, and structures.
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, learning, and performing dances.
1.2.19. Students will demonstrate AB, ABA, canon, narrative structures, call and response.
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 explain ways in which different accompaniments (sound, music, and words) affect the meaning of a dance.
1.2.23. Students will explain the manner in which lighting and costume contribute to the meaning of a dance.
1.2.24. Students will create dance sequences with a partner that show emotional action and reaction.
1.2.25. Students will choose from multiple solutions to a dance problem the most interesting solution and explain reasons for the choice.
1.2.26. Students will discuss opinions about dance compositions with peers in an objective, positive, and constructive manner.
1.2.27. Students will contrast dance compositions using the elements of dance. (Space-pathways and shapes; Time-accent and phrase; Force-vibratory and sustained)
1.2.28. Students will evaluate choreography in regard to a viewer's emotional reaction.
AL.1.3. Dance: History and Culture.
1.3.29. Students will use dance to make connections to Alabama History.
1.3.30. Students will perform dances from different time periods and discuss the way in which the mood of the time period affects the dance.
1.3.31. Students will study a culture from another country emphasizing the importance of dance.
AL.1.4. Dance: Interdisciplinary.
1.4.32. Students will relate ways in which dance creates a healthy body through the development of strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination, and balance.
1.4.33. Students will explain ways to prevent dance injuries.
1.4.34. Students will create a dance using another art form as the motivator.
1.4.35. Students will discuss the relationships between dance and other disciplines
AL.1.5. Dance: Technology.
1.5.36. Students will explore taping various sound sources for dance accompaniment.
1.5.37. Students will explore the use of video play-back machines to view choreographed works.
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 and genres.
2.1.4. Students will use age-appropriate vocal range.
2.1.5. Students will sing expressively. (Technical accuracy; appropriate dynamics; Phrasing; Interpretation; Vocal timbres blended)
2.1.6. Students will respond to the cues of a conductor.
2.1.7. Students will sing ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, and descant.
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 on pitched and unpitched classroom instruments.
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.
AL.2.3. General Music: Read and Notate.
2.3.15. Students will recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.
2.3.16. Students will describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap or as staying the same.
2.3.17. Students will use a system (syllables, numbers, or letters) to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major, minor keys.
2.3.18. Students will read rhythmic patterns in regular meters. (Sixteenth notes; Single eighth notes and eighth rests)
2.3.19. Students will recognize and use the musical alphabet. (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)
2.3.20. Students will identify notation on the staff by line and 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 describe the difference between high and low sounds.
2.4.23. Students will analyze meters.
2.4.24. Students will recognize and perform simple forms.
2.4.25. Students will recognize melodic sequence.
2.4.26. Students will recognize instruments by sight and sound. (Classroom and folk instruments; orchestral instruments)
2.4.27. Students will categorize instruments by the way the sound is produced and by instrument families.
AL.2.5. General Music: Improvise, Compose, and Arrange.
2.5.28. Students will create variations and accompaniments to known melodies.
2.5.29. Students will improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources and pitched and unpitched instruments.
2.5.30. Students will improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases. (Pentatonic scale; major, minor scales)
2.5.31. Students will explore timbres of electronic, environmental, and invented sound sources.
2.5.32. Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.
2.5.33. Students will compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.
2.5.34. Students will compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.
2.5.35. Students will compose simple melodies and ostinatos.
AL.2.6. General Music: Evaluate.
2.6.36. Students will recognize and practice accepted audience behavior.
2.6.37. Students will recognize and practice accepted performance behavior.
AL.2.7. General Music: Connect.
2.7.38. Students will identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.
2.7.39. 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 identify ways that theater reflects the artistic and social values and accomplishments of civilization.
3.1.4. Students will recognize that drama is a major form of literature.
3.1.5. Students will identify some authors who have written for the theater.
AL.3.2. Theatre: Criticism.
3.2.6. Students will articulate and explain emotional responses to the whole, as well as the parts, of dramatic performances.
3.2.7. Students will evaluate the believability of theatrical performances using identified criteria.
3.2.8. Students will identify the who, what, when, where, and why in theatre experiences.
3.2.9. Students will describe characters, their relationships, and their environments.
3.2.10. Students will articulate the different goals and feelings of characters.
3.2.11. Students will explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their own.
3.2.12. Students will describe the sensory elements of a dramatic performance. (Visual; Aural; Oral; Kinetic)
3.2.13. Students will discuss ways lighting, costumes, sound effects, makeup, props, and sets enhance dramatic presentations.
3.2.14. Students will compare ideas and emotions as expressed in theater, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.
AL.3.3. Theatre: Aesthetics.
3.3.15. Students will recognize and practice acceptable audience behavior.
3.3.16. Students will explain why responding to sensory stimuli is basic to all the arts.
3.3.17. Students will analyze how movement, music, or visual elements are used to enhance the mood of classroom dramatizations and/or theatre production.
AL.3.4. Theatre: Production.
3.4.18. Students will suggest alternative settings, characters, and endings.
3.4.19. 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)
3.4.20. Students will collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.
3.4.21. Students will create tension and suspense in or through characters, environments, and actions.
3.4.22. Students will plan and rehearse improvisations collaboratively.
3.4.23. Students will demonstrate various ways of staging dramatizations.
3.4.24. Students will assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
3.4.25. Students will demonstrate acting skills, such as memorization of lines, concentration, enunciation, body movement, and voice, to develop characterizations.
3.4.26. Students will apply simple research from print and non-print sources to script writing, acting, and design choices.
3.4.27. Students will collaborate to plan and rehearse dramatic presentations. (See Theatre-Related Resources-Suggested Plays.)
3.4.28. Students will demonstrate ability to cooperate with a director.
AL.4.1. Visual Arts: History.
4.1.1. Students will discuss different periods of art.
4.1.2. Students will compare symbols used by different cultures to portray common themes.
4.1.3. Students will interpret the lives and times of artists from the content 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 art forms. (Drawings; Paintings; Sculptures; Prints; Architectural forms)
4.1.6. Students will define selected visual art vocabulary. (Line; Form; Rhythm/Repetition; Balance; Foreground; Proportion; Color; Middle ground; Movement; Texture; Background; Emphasis; Pattern; Composition; Variety; Space; Focal point; Unity/Harmony; Shape)
4.1.7. Associate styles used by individual artists with the artist.
4.1.8. Students will describe how artists use ideas and feelings to create works of art.
4.1.9. Students will compare differences between artistic styles.
4.1.10. Students will discuss how art reflects and records history in various cultures.
4.1.11. Students will describe ways that people are involved in the visual arts within a community.
AL.4.2. Visual Arts: Criticism.
4.2.12. Students will describe functions of art within the total environment.
4.2.13. Students will describe various aspects in a work of art.
4.2.14. Students will analyze the composition in a work of art.
4.2.15. Students will identify specific media in a work of art.
4.2.16. Students will observe and discuss the content of a variety of works of art.
4.2.17. Students will use art terms to discuss a work of art.
4.2.18. Students will use technology to identify qualities of art work.
AL.4.3. Visual Arts: Aesthetics.
4.3.19. Students will determine how value, harmony, balance, and unity make a work of art aesthetically pleasing.
4.3.20. Students will discuss the relationships among works of art, individuals, and the societies in which they are created.
4.3.21. Students will analyze ways art is created as a response to images, forms, nature, and experiences.
4.3.22. Students will describe the different effects of positioning objects.
4.3.23. Students will discuss how society expresses a change in values and beliefs through subject matter of various art forms.
4.3.24. Students will discuss where art is found 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 identify visual and tactile qualities of the environment.
4.3.27. Students will describe visual characteristics of forms that are natural and man-made.
4.3.28. Students will discuss feelings generated by a work of art.
4.3.29. Students will use technology to investigate visual images.
AL.4.4. Visual Arts: Production.
4.4.30. Students will recognize color schemes. (Primary; Secondary; Intermediate (tertiary); Complementary)
4.4.31. Students will experiment with mixing colors.
4.4.32. Students will reproduce different visual and actual textures.
4.4.33. Students will produce graphic symbols, signs, and posters to communicate ideas and feelings.
4.4.34. Students will use the principles of design and selected elements of art to create a work of art.
4.4.35. Students will investigate different careers in the visual arts.
4.4.36. Students will describe and identify different methods of production.
4.4.37. Students will produce art using different two-dimensional media and processes.
4.4.38. Students will produce art using a variety of three-dimensional media and processes.
4.4.39. Students will use multimedia and other technology to create visual imagery and design.