Minnesota State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

MN.3501.0625.1. The student will understand and use artistic processes to create, perform, and interpret art works in at least two of the three arts areas required to be offered by a school from the following: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

1.A.1. Dance: The student will understand the following components of dance elements, including action, space, time and energy; principles of choreography, such as repetition, pattern, or unity; and vocabulary.

1.A.2. Dance: The student will understand cultural and historical forms or traditions of dance.

1.A.3. Dance: The student will understand how dance elements are similar to and different from the elements of other arts areas, such as music, theater, or visual arts.

1.A.4. Dance: The student will perform characteristic movements and styles of dance from more than one form or tradition.

1.A.5. Dance: The student will create movement sequences with or without music; and generate multiple responses to movement ideas.

1.B.1. Music: The student will understand the following components of music: elements, including melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, tone color, texture, and form; and vocabulary.

1.B.2. Music: The student will understand cultural and historical forms or traditions of music.

1.B.3. Music: The student will understand how musical elements are similar to and different from the elements of other arts areas, such as dance, theater, or visual arts.

1.B.4. Music: The student will sing or play traditional instruments alone and sing rounds and part songs or play traditional instruments in a group.

1.B.5. Music: The student will improvise and compose rhythms, melodies, and accompaniments using classroom instruments, voice, or both to express a specific musical idea.

1.B.6. Music: The student will perform rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns on classroom instruments.

1.B.7. Music: The student will read and write music using a system of musical notation.

1.C.1. Theater: The student will understand the following components of theater: elements, including plot, theme, character, language, sound, and spectacle; forms, such as tragedy, comedy, farce, or melodrama; and vocabulary.

1.C.2. Theater: The student will understand cultural and historical forms or traditions of theater.

1.C.3. Theater: The student will understand how theater elements are similar to and different from the elements of other arts areas, such as dance, music, or visual arts.

1.C.4. Theater: The student will create a character based on fiction or life experience using movement, voice, costume, and props.

1.C.5. Theater: The student will create a dramatic performance by interpreting and adapting the plot, characters, and language from an existing piece of literature.

1.D.1. Visual Arts: The student will understand the following components of visual arts: elements, including color, line, shape, form, texture, and space; principles, such as repetition, contrast, or balance; and vocabulary.

1.D.2. Visual Arts: The student will understand the cultural and historical forms or traditions of visual arts.

1.D.3. Visual Arts: The student will understand how visual arts elements are similar to and different from the elements of other arts areas, such as dance, music, or theater.

1.D.4. Visual Arts: The student will use elements, principles, skills, and techniques of at least three different mediums.

1.D.5. Visual Arts: The student will create original works of art to express specific artistic ideas.