North Carolina State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 4

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

1.01. Exhibit kinesthetic awareness: control, concentration, focus, and clarity of movement.

1.02. Combine more than one element of dance to create dance sequences.

1.03. Observe and describe the dance elements in various dance movement studies.

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

2.01. Use improvisation to discover and invent dance.

2.02. Create and perform a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end both with and without accompaniment. Identify each of these parts in the sequence.

2.03. Demonstrate the ability to work independently and cooperatively.

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

2.05. Create a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, then vary it by making changes in the elements of dance.

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

3.01. Create and present simple dance sequences that convey meaning.

3.02. Explain interpretations of and reactions to a dance.

3.03. Demonstrate ways to 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. Choose one solution to a movement assignment and justify the reasons for that choice.

4.03. Devise and employ various ways to evaluate dance.

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

5.01. Investigate the impact of historical events and significant contributors on the development of dance.

5.02. Investigate aspects of dance in various cultures and historical periods.

5.03. Reproduce a dance using available resources; describe the cultural and/or historical context.

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

6.01. Explain how health and safety practices enhance a dancer's ability to dance.

6.02. Identify at least three personal goals to improve oneself as a dancer.

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

7.01. Identify concepts which occur between dance and other content areas including English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Music, Theatre Arts, and Visual Arts.

7.02. Create a dance sequence that demonstrates understanding of a concept or idea from another content area.

7.03. Respond to a dance using another art form; explain the relationship between the dance and the response.

7.04. 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. 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 with pitch accuracy.

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

1.03. Sing with rhythmic accuracy.

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

1.05. Respond to the cues of a conductor.

1.06. Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

1.07. Blend vocal timbres and match dynamic levels while singing in a group.

1.08. Demonstrate part-singing skills through singing ostinatos, partner songs, and rounds.

1.09. Sing music representing diverse styles, genres, and cultures.

1.10. 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 pitch accuracy.

2.02. Play with rhythmic accuracy.

2.03. Play with appropriate technique and posture.

2.04. Play expressively using appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

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 and melodic question and answer phrases.

3.02. Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.

3.03. Improvise simple pentatonic and major diatonic melodies.

3.04. Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic 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 music compositions for voices or instruments using pentatonic and major diatonic scales and varied rhythmic values.

4.03. Arrange simple compositions for voices or instruments.

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

4.05. Show respect for the compositions and arrangements of others.

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

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

5.02. Read pitch notation in the treble clef.

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

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

5.05. 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, Call and Response, Rondo, Ballad, and Introduction/Coda.

6.02. Demonstrate perceptual skills by conducting, moving to, answering questions about, and describing aural examples of music 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 and use criteria for evaluating performances and compositions of self and others.

7.02. Explain personal reactions to specific musical works and styles using appropriate music 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 dance, music, theatre arts, and visual arts including line, color, texture, form/shape, rhythm, pattern, mood/emotion, theme, and purpose.

8.02. Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other content areas 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 or genre 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 small group playwriting.

1.02. Create and enact short stories, poetry or personal experiences about North Carolina.

1.03. Describe lessons related through multicultural literature.

1.04. Expand upon and use creative drama vocabulary.

1.05. Utilize playwriting skills to indicate the sequence of events.

1.06. Create dialogue in which characters attempt to resolve conflicts.

1.07. Apply playwriting skills by writing monologues, dialogues and short scenes.

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

2.01. Develop skills to identify characters and cast roles from a variety of texts that reflect upon heritage, culture and history.

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 conflict and emotions.

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

2.05. Create dramatizations based on texts.

2.06. Demonstrate ideas and emotions through gestures and movement.

2.07. Assume the role of a variety of real and non-real characters.

2.08. Refine improvisational skills through dramatic exercises.

2.09. Define the significance of the beginning, middle and end of a story or play.

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 in a small group.

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. Identify the ways in which blocking non-verbally conveys character, mood and actions to the audience.

3.05. Respond to and build upon ideas of others on stage.

3.06. Integrate the technical theatre elements 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. Adapt dialogue from a story to show different interpretations.

4.02. Demonstrate responsible behavior such as sharing, flexibility, negotiating and teamwork.

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

4.04. Apply sound and movement to display character, mood and actions.

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

4.06. Enact monologues, dialogue and asides within a story or drama.

4.07. Use the role of narrator to guide, prompt and assist actors.

4.08. Identify characters' thought processes during dramatic scenes.

4.09. Recognize ways to display characters' thought processes.

4.10. Use rehearsal time effectively to brainstorm, experiment, plan and rehearse.

4.11. Recognize diversity 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 meaning inferred from a text.

5.02. Articulate how artistic choices support the portrayal of the character.

5.03. Adapt and use information about character traits derived from a text.

5.04. Organize parts of a story to be used as dialogue or narration.

5.05. Reference stories to determine and justify technical needs to support the character or story.

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

5.07. Reference forms of literature other than scripts to support dramatic presentations.

5.08. Use emotional recall 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 the arts forms of puppetry, pantomime and mask making into simple dramas.

6.03. Understand that a variety of art forms are infused in theatre and come from different cultures.

6.04. Observe that different art forms reflect upon the diversity within heritage and culture.

6.05. Read with dramatic expression a variety of simple 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. Begin to question artistic choices in order to understand the dramatic process.

7.03. Justify artistic choices.

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

7.05. Realize that the character and actor may have different personalities.

7.06. Correlate personal experiences to stage experiences.

7.07. Communicate emotions and thoughts evoked by performances.

7.08. Show that consequences and actions teach characters and audience members life lessons.

7.09. Suggest and implement alternative characters, settings or events after viewing or participating in a performance.

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. Discuss the similarities and differences between acting for the theatre and camera.

8.07. Participate in 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 sense of environment to include global awareness as a source of ideas for imagery.

1.02. Create work which approaches a higher level of realism.

1.03. Depict sequence of events in artwork.

1.04. Use complex symbols to fully explore ideas.

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

2.01. Know about and correctly use stitchery needles and small hand tools.

2.02. Use additional art media, techniques and processes which may include: Fibers - stitchery, a variety of fiber weaving techniques, felting and quilting; Cut paper - complex symmetrical folding and cutting; Sculpture - experiments with varied tools including small hand tools.

2.03. Increase skills with familiar materials.

2.04. Demonstrate one's own thought and feelings visually, using sequential, visual narrative.

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. Mix tints, shades and tones.

3.02. Differentiate horizontal, vertical, parallel, and diagonal lines.

3.03. Compare relative positions of objects in space through color intensity and value.

3.04. Exercise flexibility when approaching a problem-solving situation.

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. Create extended visual narratives based on one's own life and experiences.

4.02. Discuss and/or write extended narratives based on one's own art.

4.03. Enumerate characteristics of artist's work that distinguish it from others.

4.04. Compare work of various artists' styles and cultures.

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

5.01. Recognize that art can serve more than one purpose and/or function in a given culture.

5.02. Make responses that are both knowledge-based and personal (objective and subjective).

5.03. Compare works of art from different times and cultures.

5.04. Compare works of art from one culture to that from another culture of the same time period.

5.05. Recognize an increased selection of works of art and artists.

5.06. Discuss themes which are most important to a particular culture.

5.07. Recognize that individuals are products of their own culture.

5.08. Explores the art and architecture of selected North Carolina artists.

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. Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks.

6.02. Understand experience varies from individual to individual and from culture to culture.

6.03. Critique artwork through the use of design principles: emphasis, movement, repetition, space, balance, and value.

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

7.01. Recognize that in a particular place or time, shared beliefs or knowledge will affect the ideas, issues or themes in all disciplines.

7.02. Identify how technology affects how things look and how they are done.

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

8.01. Discuss how some ways of making art are different than in the past but some are the same.

8.02. Discuss how there are art related jobs today that did not exist in the past such as photographer, videographer and computer artist.