Colorado State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 5

CO.1. Dance: Students will understand and demonstrate dance skills.

1.1. Demonstrating accurate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences using different styles.

1.2. Transferring a rhythmic pattern from the auditory to the kinesthetic, and a spatial pattern from the visual to the kinesthetic.

1.3. Identifying and demonstrating mechanical movement skills.

1.4. Identifying and demonstrating a range of dynamic energies and movement qualities.

CO.2. Dance: Students will understand and apply the principles of choreography.

2.1. Creating complex movement phrases through improvisation.

2.2. Developing variations of movement phrases.

2.3. Using a variety of sources to structure a complete dance study.

CO.3. Dance: Students will create, communicate, and problem solve through dance.

3.1. Creating and evaluating movement while justifying artistic choices.

3.2. Demonstrating the difference between literal and non literal movement.

3.3. Comparing and contrasting dance compositions.

3.4. Creating a dance that communicates a topic of personal interest.

CO.4. Dance: Students will understand and relate the role of dance in culture and history.

4.1. Performing and evaluating dances from various cultures.

4.2. Performing, describing, and comparing dance in relation to historical periods.

CO.5. Dance: Students will understand the benefits of dance for lifelong fitness.

5.1. Identifying personal goals and methods to improve dance skills and fitness levels.

5.2. Describing a logical class progression based on principles of fitness.

5.3. Communicating how lifestyle choices affect the dancer.

CO.6. Dance: Students will understand the relationships and connections between dance and other disciplines.

6.1. Creating a project that reveals similarities and differences between dance and the other arts.

6.2. Discussing examples of similar concepts used between dance and other disciplines outside of the arts.

CO.1. Music: Students sing or play on instruments a varied repertoire of music, alone or with others.

1.1. Singing or playing, with appropriate technique, music written in two or more parts, in rhythm and in tempo, blending voices or instruments, and matching dynamic levels.

1.2. Singing or playing an expanding repertoire of music representing musically and culturally diverse literature.

1.3. Responding to the conductor's cues of dynamic levels while singing or playing music.

CO.2. Music: Students will read and notate music.

2.1. Identifying and reading rhythmic patterns using whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes, and equivalent rests in the context of a meter signature.

2.2. Reading melodic and rhythmic patterns.

2.3. Notating rhythmic, melodic, and expressive musical ideas.

2.4. Identifying appropriate key signatures.

CO.3. Music: Students will create music.

3.1. Creating rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic patterns.

3.2. Creating short compositions.

3.3. Expressing musical ideas using a variety of sound sources (for example, classroom instruments, vocal sounds, electronic technology, or other sound-producing objects).

CO.4. Music: Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music.

4.1. Identifying and describing simple forms.

4.2. Identifying contrasts in meter, rhythm, melody and timbre.

4.3. Identifying and examining criteria for evaluating music performances and compositions.

CO.5. Music: Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions.

5.1. Describing how distinguishing elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: The rhythms present in many examples of Latin American music is derived from dance rhythms. Dance is an integral part of that culture).

5.2. Describing the roles of musicians throughout history and in various cultures (for example: the Medieval European Minstrel served as a storyteller and news broadcaster, as well as a musician. The American folk singer serves much the same function).

CO.1. Theatre: Students develop interpersonal skills and problem-solving capabilities through group interaction and artistic collaboration.

1.1. Understanding the balance between personal and group needs.

1.2. Incorporating ideas to unify a group product.

1.3. Communicating artistic choices, describing reasons, and offering alternatives to solve problems and to build consensus.

1.4. Adapting the activity based on constructive criticism.

CO.2. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of story telling, playwriting, acting, and directing.

2.1. Demonstrating the ability to interpret character analysis and apply stage directions.

2.2. Demonstrating sensory recall, concentration, pantomime, and body alignment to develop believable character.

2.3. Developing vocal skills of clarity, volume, and vocal variety through reading aloud and interpreting characters.

2.4. Creating improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences, heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

CO.3. Theatre: Students understand and apply the creative process to skills of design and technical production.

3.1. Analyzing dramatic text to suggest season, time, and period through setting, sound, properties, lighting, makeup, and costume.

3.2. Assembling and using elements of technical theatre to represent time and place, establish character, enhance theme and mood, and create dramatic environments.

CO.4. Theatre: Students understand and relate the role of theatre arts to culture and history.

4.1. Examining and comparing characteristics of theatrical works from various cultures throughout history.

4.2. Exploring historical and cultural concepts through dramatic activities.

CO.5. Theatre: Students analyze and assess the characteristics, merits, and meanings of traditional and modem forms of dramatic expression.

5.1. Understanding and using appropriate plot, theme, character, and spectacle.

5.2. Identifying and analyzing dramatic elements of theatre.

5.3. Expressing and comparing personal reactions to comedy, tragedy, and other dramatic forms.

5.4. Using specified criteria to describe, analyze, and evaluate artistic choices in dramatic presentations.

CO.6. Theatre: Students know and apply connections between theatre and other disciplines.

6.1. Explaining how theatre is interrelated with other disciplines.

6.2. Demonstrating through dramatizations the interaction between theatre and other disciplines.

6.3. Understanding and using technology to enhance classroom activities and dramatizations.

CO.1. Visual Arts: Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.

1.1. Identifying and discussing how and why visual images, themes, and ideas communicate.

1.2. Selecting, organizing, and employing visual images, themes, and ideas in works of art to express an intended meaning.

1.3. Evaluating meaning and communication in works of art.

CO.2. Visual Arts: Students know and apply elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts.

2.1. Describing and discussing characteristics of elements of art, principles of design, and styles of art.

2.2. Using elements of art, principles of design, and styles of art to communicate ideas and experiences.

2.3. Analyzing and evaluating the use of elements of art, principles of design, and styles of art that express ideas and experiences.

CO.3. Visual Arts: Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

3.1. Identifying and experimenting with materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

3.2. Selecting and using materials, tools, techniques, and processes that enhance communication of ideas through art.

3.3. Evaluating the selection and use of materials, tools, techniques, and processes.

CO.4. Visual Arts: Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.

4.1. Identifying and comparing the characteristics of works of art from various cultures, times, and places.

4.2. Creating art based on personal interpretation of various historical and cultural contexts.

4.3. Demonstrating how history and culture of various people influence the creation, meaning and style of works of art.

CO.5. Visual Arts: Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.

5.1. Identifying and discussing reasons for creating works of art.

5.2. Using methods of critical analysis and aesthetic inquiry.

5.3. Formulating responses to works of art from personal and critical points of view.