North Carolina State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 3

NC.1. Dance: The learner will identify and demonstrate elements and skills in dance.

1.01. Demonstrate increasing kinesthetic awareness.

1.02. Utilize and elaborate on the element of space in dance.

1.03. Utilize and elaborate on the element of time in dance.

1.04. Utilize and elaborate on the element of energy/dynamics in dance.

1.05. Observe and describe the inter-relatedness of dance elements in a brief movement study.

NC.2. Dance: The learner will understand choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

2.01. Compare and contrast the differences between spontaneous and planned movement.

2.02. Create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end both with and without accompaniment.

2.03. Demonstrate and develop the following partner skills: copying, leading and following, mirroring.

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

2.05. Create a dance phrase and accurately repeat it.

NC.3. Dance: The learner will understand that dance can create and communicate meaning.

3.01. Create movements to express ideas, feelings, or stories.

3.02. Discuss interpretations of and reactions to a dance.

3.03. Create dance movements from pedestrian movements.

NC.4. Dance: The learner will apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

4.01. Create and explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem.

4.02. Discuss and explore movement similarities and differences in dance sequences.

4.03. Evaluate dance in multiple ways.

NC.5. Dance: The learner will demonstrate and understand dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.01. Compare and contrast dances from various cultures and historical periods.

5.02. Perform dances from various cultures and historical periods.

5.03. Identify various ways in which people respond to their environments through dance.

NC.6. Dance: The learner will make connections between dance and healthful living.

6.01. Demonstrate safe and respectful practices during movement activities.

6.02. Identify at least one personal goal to improve oneself as a dancer.

NC.7. Dance: The learner will make connections between dance and other content areas.

7.01. Investigate connections between dance and other content areas.

7.02. Use technology as a tool for exploring and creating dance.

NC.8. Dance: The learner will understand dance as an art form with a range of opportunities for involvement.

8.01. Define the role of an audience and performer in dance.

8.02. Define and demonstrate appropriate behaviors while watching, creating, or performing dance.

8.03. Identify and explore various opportunities for involvement with dance.

NC.1. Music: The learner will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

1.01. Sing simple songs with increased pitch accuracy.

1.02. Match pitch within a developmentally appropriate vocal range, using head tones.

1.03. Sing simple songs with increased rhythmic accuracy.

1.04. Sing with proper vocal technique including head tones, clear diction, and correct posture.

1.05. Respond to the cues of a conductor.

1.06. Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics and phrasing.

1.07. Demonstrate beginning part-singing skills through performing rounds and simple ostinati.

1.08. Sing a variety of music representing diverse genres, styles, and cultures.

1.09. Show respect for the singing efforts of others.

NC.2. Music: The learner will play on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

2.01. Play with increased pitch accuracy.

2.02. Play with increased rhythmic accuracy.

2.03. Play with appropriate technique and posture.

2.04. Play expressively using appropriate dynamics.

2.05. Play independent instrumental parts while others sing and/or play rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic parts.

2.06. Respond to the cues of a conductor.

2.07. Play music representing diverse styles, genres, and cultures.

2.08. Show respect for the playing efforts of others.

NC.3. Music: The learner will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.01. Improvise rhythmic questions and answer phrases.

3.02. Improvise simple major and minor pentatonic melodies.

3.03. Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.

3.04. Improvise simple rhythmic variations of familiar melodies.

3.05. Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources, including electronic media.

3.06. Show respect for the improvisational efforts of others.

NC.4. Music: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.01. Create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations.

4.02. Compose short pieces for voices or instruments using the pentatonic scale and varied rhythmic values.

4.03. Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments.

4.04. Use a variety of sound, notational, and technological sources to compose music.

4.05. Show respect for the composing and arranging efforts of others.

NC.5. Music: The learner will read and notate music.

5.01. Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth note and quarter rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters.

5.02. Read melodic notation in the treble clef.

5.03. Identify pitches on the treble clef.

5.04. Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to expressive qualities including dynamics and tempo.

5.05. Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns.

5.06. Show respect for the reading and notating efforts of others.

NC.6. Music: The learner will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.01. Identify simple music forms when presented aurally including AB, ABA, AABA, Call and Response, and Introduction/Coda.

6.02. Demonstrate perceptual skills by conducting, moving, answering questions about, and describing aural music examples of various styles and cultures.

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

6.04. Identify visually and aurally a variety of instruments including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures.

6.05. Identify solo and group vocal timbres including children's voices, and male/female adult voices.

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

6.07. Show respect while listening to and analyzing music.

NC.7. Music: The learner will evaluate music and music performances.

7.01. Devise criteria for evaluating performances and compositions of self and others.

7.02. Explain personal reactions to specific musical compositions and styles using appropriate terminology.

7.03. Show respect for the musical efforts and opinions of others.

NC.8. Music: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.

8.01. Identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the other arts.

8.02. Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are related to those of music.

8.03. Demonstrate the character traits of responsibility, self-discipline, and perseverance while informally or formally participating in music.

NC.9. Music: The learner will understand music in relation to history and culture.

9.01. Identify the style of aural music examples from various historical periods and cultures.

9.02. Describe in simple terms how elements of music are used in music examples from various cultures in the world, past and present.

9.03. Identify various uses of music and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

9.04. Identify and describe roles of musicians in various music settings and cultures.

9.05. Show respect for music from various cultures and historical periods.

NC.1. Theatre: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

1.01. Participate in teacher-guided playwriting using simple characters, setting, conflict and resolution.

1.02. Recognize the beginning, middle and end of a story.

1.03. Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairytales, tall tales, fables, legends and myths.

1.04. Develop and utilize basic creative drama vocabulary.

1.05. Identify basic elements of a script such as title, characters, setting and blocking.

1.06. Refine reading comprehension by using verbal and non-verbal communication.

1.07. Discuss how characters attempt to resolve conflicts.

NC.2. Theatre: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.

2.01. Identify characters and cast roles from a variety of texts that include themes of citizenship and responsibility.

2.02. Utilize vocal expression to explore thoughts and feelings of real and non-real characters.

2.03. Participate in dramatic activities that deal with problems and emotions.

2.04. Create characters and events to utilize in the dramatic process.

2.05. Dramatize stories through guided dramatic expression from a story.

2.06. Demonstrate ideas and emotions using gestures, blocking and movement.

2.07. Utilize improvisational skills to make character choices in the dramatic process.

NC.3. Theatre: The learner will design and produce theatre by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions.

3.01. Participate in making artistic choices for the scenery in a presentation.

3.02. Employ the basic concepts of time, space and action in the dramatic process.

3.03. Collaborate to create simple scenery and costumes for acting out dramas.

3.04. Adjust blocking to include audience focus.

3.05. Expand basic skills to react and interact with characters on stage.

3.06. Examine the concept and role of sound, props, costumes, scenery, stage management and directing.

NC.4. Theatre: The learner will direct through planning and presenting informal or formal productions.

4.01. Paraphrase dialogue from a story to show different interpretations for use in the dramatic process.

4.02. Demonstrate responsible behaviors such as sharing, flexibility and teamwork during dramatic activities.

4.03. Make decisions and accept simple responsibilities in the dramatic process.

4.04. Apply sound and movement to display character traits of objects, animals and people.

4.05. Compromise with peers in small group decision making about artistic choices.

4.06. Listen and react to one another within the drama.

4.07. Relate the similarities and differences between monologues, dialogue and asides within a story or drama.

4.08. Utilize the role of the narrator in the dramatic process.

4.09. Relate what characters think and feel during a dramatic scene.

4.10. Experiment with character dialogue in the rehearsal process.

4.11. Observe and relate how the diversity of students within a group contributes to interesting artistic choices.

NC.5. Theatre: The learner will research by finding information to support informal or formal productions.

5.01. Express through characterization the meaning inferred from text.

5.02. Justify the need for simple props and costumes to support the character or story.

5.03. Choose vocal expression and movement to support the playing of a character.

5.04. Utilize information about character traits derived from text.

5.05. Tell stories using narration.

5.06. Identify parts of a story that can be utilized as dialogue or narration.

5.07. Reference stories to determine the technical needs for dramatic presentation.

5.08. Investigate text to determine Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.

5.09. Make predictions about characters, setting and events based on story content.

5.10. Utilize personal experience as the basis for character choices.

NC.6. Theatre: The learner will compare and integrate art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms.

6.01. Incorporate music, sound, movement, dance, and design into the dramatic process.

6.02. Incorporate puppetry and pantomime into simple dramas.

6.03. Utilize simple mask making.

6.04. Understand a variety of art forms are infused into theatre and come from all cultures.

6.05. Observe that different art forms reflect diversity.

6.06. Build skills to read with dramatic expression a variety of scripts.

NC.7. Theatre: The learner will analyze, critique, and construct meaning from informal and formal theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

7.01. Build skills to critique self and others in a respectful and constructive manner.

7.02. Listen to constructive criticism and react in a positive way.

7.03. Convey personal reactions to various texts.

7.04. Correlate personal experiences to stage experiences.

7.05. Communicate emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

7.06. Recognize and discuss that consequences and actions teach characters and audience members life lessons.

7.07. Suggest alternative characters, settings or events after viewing or participating in a performance.

7.08. Justify artistic choices.

NC.8. Theatre: The learner will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and present.

8.01. Understand the role of theatre.

8.02. Discuss the role of film and television.

8.03. Discuss the role of technology and electronic media.

8.04. Experience live or recorded performances.

8.05. Discuss the similarities and differences between live and recorded theatrical events.

8.06. Participate in and experience informal and formal presentations.

NC.1. Visual Arts: The learner will develop critical and creative thinking skills and perceptual awareness necessary for understanding and producing art.

1.01. Expand the use of appropriate vocabulary.

1.02. Apply knowledge and concepts gained across the curriculum as a source of ideas for art.

1.03. Select color both for emotional appeal and realism.

1.04. Respond to positive attention and suggestions from others.

1.05. Discuss why one solution is better than another through comparison.

1.06. Refine images of self, pets, family, friends, and environment.

1.07. Elaborate on an idea or theme.

1.08. Develop the ability to work in small groups to reach a group goal which will be greater than any one individual might achieve alone.

NC.2. Visual Arts: The learner will develop skills necessary for understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes.

2.01. Expands control and manipulation of the media and tools which may include the following: Photography - sun prints; Drawing - chalk, fine and broad markers, colored pencils, creates a variety of lines with tip, point and side, computer and software; Cut paper - papers, found objects, fibers, glue, sharp-edged scissors, curling, scoring and stapling, cutting a variety of single and multiple shapes; 3-D - paper mache, small hand tools; Printmaking - cardboard; Painting - liquid acrylics, large and small brushes, computer and software; Ceramic - coil construction, compound pinch and slab, addition, smoothing, self-created stamps; Fibers - Knotting, small hand looms for fibers.

2.02. Explore unique properties and potential of materials.

2.03. Demonstrate increased fine motor skills.

2.04. Develop familiarity with specific media and processes.

2.05. Interprets actual textures in a variety of media.

2.06. Create portraits, still lifes and landscapes from real life observation or memory.

2.07. Depict self and others in a variety of real and imaginary situations with increasing detail.

NC.3. Visual Arts: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.

3.01. Explore differences among actual, imaginary and applied texture in discussion and production.

3.02. Create a variety of visual textures using computers and basic drawing, printmaking, sculpture and painting tools.

3.03. Identify geometric shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, oval, octagon, and pentagon.

3.04. Use a variety of geometric and organic shapes in creating own work.

3.05. Compare objects in space through relative size and position including such things as: overlapping, foreground, middle ground, background, and amount of detail.

3.06. Develop ability to discuss his or her own work and that of others in terms of art elements.

3.07. Recognize composition is using the elements of art to create an artwork.

3.08. Achieve balance in compositions through use of like or different objects.

3.09. Develop repetition to create pattern in one's own artwork.

3.10. Respect the work of others when critiquing art.

3.11. Consider numerous solutions during the problem-solving process.

3.12. Recognize symmetrical and asymmetrical balance.

3.13. Mix tints and shades.

NC.4. Visual Arts: The learner will choose and evaluate a range of subject matter and ideas to communicate intended meaning in artworks.

4.01. Write fables and myths with details based on one's own artwork.

4.02. Use knowledge and imagination to interpret environments.

4.03. Interject personal point of view regarding one's own surroundings.

4.04. Interpret freely work by other artists, cultures or time periods to create original art.

4.05. Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's background and experiences are important in shaping that artist's work.

4.06. Know, discuss, and/or write about how an artist's environment and time makes one's own work different from that of other artists in other times or places.

NC.5. Visual Arts: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

5.01. Identify the main purposes for art in a society.

5.02. Differentiate between decorative and functional purpose in one's own artwork.

5.03. Identify specific works of art as belonging to a particular culture, time and place.

5.04. Identify media/techniques and processes used for an individual artwork.

5.05. Understand there have been many different cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.

5.06. Name selected artist.

5.07. Name selected works by an artist.

5.08. Recognize that cultures have different ideas about art.

NC.6. Visual Arts: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.

6.01. Understand that the purpose for a work of art affects how it is made.

6.02. Recognize diversity in art as a natural and positive expression of individuality.

6.03. Express own ideas and feelings visually and with fluency.

6.04. Express what can be learned from a mistake or accident of one's own or others.

6.05. Apply knowledge gained from a failure situation to help achieve a more successful effort.

6.06. Critique art work using proper art vocabulary.

6.07. Express one's own thoughts and feelings about a specific artwork.

6.08. Critique artwork in relation to design principles: emphasis, movement, repetition, space, and balance.

NC.7. Visual Arts: The learner will perceive connections between visual arts and other disciplines.

7.01. Begin to acknowledge similarities among all the arts including vocabulary, concepts, and use of composition.

7.02. Discuss how the artwork people produce reflects the times in which they live.

NC.8. Visual Arts: The learner will develop an awareness of art as an avocation and profession.

8.01. Recognize that people can derive satisfaction from involvement with art.

8.02. Understand ways people can make a living from creating works of art.

8.03. Understand that people can make a living in art related fields.