Michigan State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

MI.1. Dance (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Accurately demonstrate basic locomotor skills through straight and curved pathways including several directions.

1.2. Accurately demonstrate nonlocomotor/axial movement (such as bend, twist, stretch, swing).

1.3. Demonstrate shapes at low, middle, and high levels.

1.4. Demonstrate the ability to define and maintain personal space.

1.5. Demonstrate moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.

1.6. Demonstrate kinesthetic awareness, concentration, and focus in performing movement skills.

1.7. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively alone and with a partner.

1.8. Demonstrate the following partner skills: leading, following, and mirroring.

MI.2. Dance (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end both with and without a rhythmic accompaniment. Identify each of these parts of the sequence.

2.2. Improvise, create, and perform dances based on their own ideas and concepts from other sources.

2.3. Use improvisation to discover, invent, and solve movement problems.

2.4. Begin to develop tracking skills with video camera.

MI.3. Dance (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Observe and describe the action (such as skip, gallop) and movement elements (time, space, force, energy) in a brief movement study.

3.2. Observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports, everyday gestures).

3.3. Take an active role in a class discussion about interpretations of and reactions to a dance.

3.4. Present their own dances to peers and discuss their meaning with competence and confidence.

3.5. Explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem; choose a favorite solution and discuss the reasons for that choice.

3.6. Observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of one of the elements of dance by observing body shapes, levels, and pathways.

MI.4. Dance (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Observe and discuss how dance is different from other forms of human movement (such as sports, everyday gestures).

4.2. Perform dances from various cultures with competence and confidence.

4.3. Learn and effectively share a dance from a resource in their own community; describe the cultural and/or historical context.

4.4. Accurately answer questions about the role of dance in a particular culture and time period (e.g., In Colonial America, why and in what setting did people dance? What did the dances look like?).

MI.5. Dance (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Identify at least three personal goals to improve as dancers.

5.2. Explain how healthy practices (such as nutrition, safety) enhance their ability to dance, citing multiple examples.

5.3. Create a dance project that reveals understanding of a concept or idea from another discipline (such as patterns in dance and science with the use of technology).

5.4. Respond to a dance using another art form; explain the connections between the dance and their response to it (such as stating how personal paintings reflect the dance they saw).

MI.1. Music (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Sing and play independently, on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timbre, diction, posture, and tempo.

1.2. Sing from memory and play a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse cultures.

1.3. Perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic and harmonic classroom instruments.

1.4. Echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.

1.5. Perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

1.6. Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in double and triple meter.

1.7. Use a system to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.

1.8. Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation and interpret them correctly when performing.

1.9. Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns presented by the teacher.

MI.2. Music (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.

2.2. Improvise 'answers' in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.

2.3. Improvise simple rhythmic variations and simple melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.

2.4. Create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.

2.5. Use a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media when composing, arranging, and improvising.

2.6. Create and arrange music to accompany readings, dramatizations, or visual media.

MI.3. Music (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Demonstrate perceptual skills by moving, by answering questions, and by describing aural examples of music of various styles representing diverse cultures.

3.2. Use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, musical instruments and voices, and music performances.

3.3. Identify the sounds of a variety of instruments, including many orchestra, band and electronic instruments, and instruments from various cultures, as well as children's voices and male and female adult voices.

3.4. Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music events while listening to music.

3.5. Devise criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.

3.6. Explain, using appropriate music terminology, personal preferences for specific musical works, and styles.

MI.4. Music (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures.

4.2. Describe how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures of the world.

4.3. Identify various uses of music in daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

4.4. Identify and describe roles of musicians in various settings and cultures.

4.5. Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

MI.5. Music (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Observe and identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.

5.2. Observe and identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music.

5.3. Identify various uses of music in their daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

5.4. Analyze personal, family, and community use of electronic media.

MI.1. Theatre (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Use variations of locomotor and non locomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters.

1.2. Assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

MI.2. Theatre (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

2.2. Improvise dialogue to tell stories, and formalize improvisations by writing or recording the dialogue.

2.3. Visualize environments and construct designs to communicate locale and mood using visual elements (such as space, color, line, shape, texture) and aural aspects using a variety of sound sources.

2.4. Collaborate to establish playing spaces for classroom dramatizations and to select and organize available materials that suggest scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

2.5. Collaboratively plan and rehearse improvisations and demonstrate various ways of staging classroom dramatizations.

MI.3. Theatre (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their environments.

3.2. Communicate information to peers about people, events, time, and place related to classroom dramatizations.

3.3. Describe the visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements of classroom dramatizations and explain personal preference.

3.4. Analyze classroom dramatizations and constructively suggest alternative ideas for dramatizing roles, arranging environments, and developing situations.

3.5. Develop a means of improving the collaborative process of planning, playing, responding, and evaluating classroom dramatizations.

3.6. Explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different from their own.

3.7. Articulate emotional responses to and explain personal preferences about the whole as well as the parts of dramatic performances.

MI.4. Theatre (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Identify and compare similar characters and situations in stories and dramas from and about various cultures, illustrate with classroom dramatizations, and discuss how theatre reflects life.

4.2. Identify and compare the various settings and reasons for creating dramas and attending theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

MI.5. Theatre (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Describe visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.

5.2. Compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.

5.3. Select movement, music, or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.

MI.1. Visual Arts (Performing): All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts.

1.1. Use materials, techniques, media technology, and processes to communicate ideas and experiences.

1.2. Use art materials and tools safely and responsibly.

1.3. Use visual characteristics and organizational principles of art to communicate ideas.

1.4. Be involved in the process and presentation of a final product or exhibit.

MI.2. Visual Arts (Creating): All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

2.1. Apply knowledge of materials, techniques, and processes to create artwork.

2.2. Apply knowledge of how visual characteristics and organizational principles communicate ideas.

2.3. Explore and understand prospective subject matter, ideas, and symbols for works of art.

2.4. Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning.

2.5. Know different purposes of visual art to creatively convey ideas.

2.6. Use technology as a tool for creative expression.

MI.3. Visual Arts (Analyzing in Context): All students will analyze, describe and evaluate works of art.

3.1. Generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in personal work.

3.2. Identify various purposes for creating works of visual art.

3.3. Understand there are different responses to specific artworks.

3.4. Describe and compare the characteristics of personal artwork.

3.5. Understand how personal experiences can influence the development of artwork.

MI.4. Visual Arts (Arts in Context): All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

4.1. Know that the visual arts have a history and specific relationships to various cultures.

4.2. Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places.

4.3. Demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art.

MI.5. Visual Arts (Connecting to Other Arts, Other Disciplines, and Life): All students will recognize, analyze, and describe connections among the arts; between the arts and other disciplines; between the arts and everyday life.

5.1. Explain how visual arts have inherent relationships to everyday life.

5.2. Identify various careers in the visual arts.

5.3. Understand and use comparative characteristics of the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

5.4. Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum.