Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 1

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 direction.

1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops awareness of spatial concepts (e.g., personal 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, sharp, 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: Develops self-discipline and positive work habits through dance.

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

1.15. Connections: Relates dance to other subject areas.

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

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

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

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

1.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.

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

1.22. 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: Identifies and names contrasts in music: long-short, beat-no beat, loud-soft, fast-slow, high-low, upward-downward, and accompaniment-no accompaniment.

2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes between repeating and contrasting sections and phrases in music.

2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the sounds of percussive and melodic classroom instruments.

2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in group singing of rote songs.

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

2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of steady beat through playing an instrument.

2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plays simple high-low or upward-downward patterns on melodic instruments.

2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Create new texts for familiar songs.

2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Moves expressively to music.

2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects and adds simple vocal and percussive sounds to songs, poems, and stories.

2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes among specific vocal timbres (male, female and children).

2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies classroom, folk, and orchestral instruments.

2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies prenotation symbols such as line notation and stick notation.

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

2.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple accompaniments using body percussion or classroom instruments.

2.16. Connections: Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations.

2.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Responds to music through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.

2.18. 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: Uses simple drama terms and applies them to drama activities.

3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates behaviors needed to participate in drama activities.

3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates cooperative group behavior in drama activities.

3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Describes objects and experiences using details from the five senses.

3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates imaginary objects and environments in drama activities.

3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses movement to communicate thought, feeling and role.

3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Differentiates between audience space and playing space.

3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses voice, speech, and language to express thought, feeling, and role.

3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Assumes a variety of roles in dramatizing fantasy and real-life situations.

3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects stories and other stimuli to use as a basis for drama activities.

3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Locates and uses found or designated objects for props, costumes, and scenery in drama activities.

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

3.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Plans simple drama through group verbal interaction.

3.14. 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).

3.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Dramatizes literature and ideas using a variety of forms including story drama, pantomime, puppetry, and choral speaking.

3.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies art forms of dance, music, visual arts, and film/TV.

3.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explores content from language arts, science, math, foreign languages and fine arts through dramatic activities.

3.18. Connections: Dramatizes ideas, concepts, and events based on the Social Studies curriculum topic Families and Cultures of North America.

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

3.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recalls and states details from dramatic presentations.

3.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Discusses how classroom drama activities relate to students' own lives.

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

3.23. Historical and Cultural Context: Identifies facts about different cultures through enacting stories from various parts of the world.

GA.4. Fine Arts: Visual Arts

4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Mixes primary colors to create secondary colors.

4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks (e.g., drawings, paintings, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media art) emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture) and the principle of repetition (pattern).

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

4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses imagination and immediate environment, including family, home, and surroundings, as sources for ideas.

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

4.6. Connections: Applies and compares the concepts of pattern from other disciplines, such as pattern in music, dance, mathematics, and poetry.

4.7. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes and differentiates between primary and secondary colors.

4.8. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies lines as outlines or edges of shapes and forms.

4.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Differentiates between geometric shapes and organic shapes.

4.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies shapes as flat and forms as not flat.

4.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes positive and negative space.

4.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Differentiates textures by sight and by touch.

4.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes how artists overlap shapes to create a sense of depth.

4.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies and describes patterns as repetition of colors, lines, shapes, or textures.

4.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Distinguishes between natural objects and objects made by people.

4.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Uses art terms (elements of art) to describe differences in two artworks of similar subjects.

4.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes feelings in response to looking at artworks.

4.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Talks about how art is different from other things.

4.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Examines and judges artworks based on clues within the artworks.

4.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Examines common subjects and themes in selected artworks from different cultures, such as the world of play, foods, costumes, celebrations, communities, and nature.

4.21. Historical and Cultural Context: Recognizes ways that artists are involved in communities (e.g., architects, painters, photographers, window designers, educators, and docents).

4.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Recognizes and associates selected artists with their individual works.