New Hampshire State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 1

NH.D.1. Dance: Identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance.

D.1.1. Students will be able to demonstrate axial movements.

D.1.2. Students will be able to demonstrate the eight basic locomotor movements of walk, run, hop, jump, leap, skip, gallop, slide, while moving forward, backward, sideward, diagonally and turning.

D.1.3. Students will be able to create shapes at low, middle, and high levels.

D.1.4. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to define and maintain personal space.

D.1.5. Students will be able to demonstrate movements in straight and curved pathways.

D.1.6. Students will be able to demonstrate accuracy in moving to a musical beat and responding to changes in tempo.

D.1.7. Students will be able to demonstrate concentration, focus and kinesthetic awareness (a sense of movement internalized by the muscles), in performing movement skills.

D.1.8. Students will be able to observe and describe the action and movement elements of space, time, and energy, in a brief movement study.

NH.D.2. Dance: Identify choreographic principles.

D.2.1. Students will be able to create a sequence with a beginning, middle, and end, both with and without a rhythmic accompaniment and identify each part of the sequence.

D.2.2. Students will be able to improvise, create and perform movements based on their own ideas and ideas from other sources.

D.2.3. Students will be able to use improvisation to discover and invent movement and to solve movement problems.

D.2.4. Students will be able to create a dance phrase, accurately repeat it, and then vary it.

D.2.5. Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively alone and with a partner or in a small group.

D.2.6. Students will be able to demonstrate the following partner skills: copying, mirroring, leading and following.

NH.D.3. Dance: Recognize dance as a way to create and communicate meaning.

D.3.1. Students will be able to observe and discuss how dance is different than other forms of human movement.

D.3.2. Students will be able to discuss interpretations of and reactions to a dance;

D.3.3. Students will be able to present their own dances to peers and discuss their meanings.

NH.D.4. Dance: Apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in dance.

D.4.1. Students will be able to explore multiple solutions to a given movement problem; choose their favorite solution and analyze the reasons for that choice.

D.4.2. Students will be able to observe two dances and discuss how they are similar and different in terms of the basic components used to create a dance.

NH.D.5. Dance: Recognize and demonstrate dance in various cultures and historical periods.

D.5.1. Students will be able to perform folk dances from various cultures and communities within New Hampshire .

D.5.2. Students will be able to learn and share a dance from a resource in their own community; describe the cultural and/or historical context.

D.5.3. Students will be able to examine dance from a particular culture and time period.

D.5.4. Students will be able to identify ways that dance has been a continuous part of the history of human culture.

NH.D.6. Dance: Make connections between dance and healthful living.

D.6.1. Students will be able to identify personal wellness goals and how aspects of dance can be used to meet those goals.

D.6.2. Students will be able to explain how healthy practices, such as nutrition and safety, enhance their ability to dance.

NH.D.7. Dance: Make connections between dance and other disciplines.

D.7.1. Students will be able to create a dance project that reveals understanding of a concept or idea from another discipline, such as pattern in dance and science.

D.7.2. Students will be able to respond to a dance using another arts discipline.

NH.D.8. Dance: Identify the range of careers in the field of dance.

D.8.1. Students will be able to describe the ways in which participation in dance enhances everyday life.

D.8.2. Students will be able to analyze how creating dance events takes the efforts of people with many different skills.

NH.M.1. Music: Sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

M.1.1. General Music: Students will be able to sing independently, on pitch and in rhythm, with appropriate timbre, diction, and posture, and maintain a steady tempo.

M.1.2. General Music: Students will be able to sing expressively, with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

M.1.3. General Music: Students will be able to sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles from diverse cultures.

M.1.4. General Music: Students will be able to sing ostinatos, partner songs, and rounds.

M.1.5. General Music: Students will be able to sing in groups, blending vocal timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of a conductor.

NH.M.2. Music: Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

M.2.1. General Music: Students will be able to perform on pitch, in rhythm, with appropriate dynamics and timbre, and maintain a steady tempo.

M.2.2. General Music: Students will be able to perform easy rhythmic, melodic, and chordal patterns accurately and independently on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic classroom instruments.

M.2.3. General Music: Students will be able to perform expressively a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and styles.

M.2.4. General Music: Students will be able to echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.

M.2.5. General Music: Students will be able to perform in groups, blending instrumental timbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of a conductor.

M.2.6. General Music: Students will be able to perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

NH.M.3. Music: Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

M.3.1. Students will be able to improvise 'answers' in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.

M.3.2. Students will be able to improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.

M.3.3. Students will be able to improvise simple rhythmic variations and simple melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.

M.3.4. Students will be able to improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional sounds, nontraditional sounds available in the classroom, body sounds, and sounds produced by electronic means.

NH.M.4. Music: Compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

M.4.1. Students will be able to create and arrange music to accompany readings or dramatizations.

M.4.2. Students will be able to create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.

M.4.3. Students will be able to use a variety of sound sources when composing.

NH.M.5. Music: Read and notate music.

M.5.1. Students will be able to read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meter signatures.

M.5.2. Students will be able to use a system (that is, syllables, numbers, or letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.

M.5.3. Students will be able to identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation and interpret them correctly when performing.

M.5.4. Students will be able to use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns presented by the teacher.

NH.M.6. Music: Listen to, analyze, and describe music.

M.6.1. Students will be able to identify simple music forms when presented aurally.

M.6.2. Students will be able to demonstrate perceptual skills by moving to, inquiring about, and describing aural examples of music from various styles representing diverse cultures.

M.6.3. Students will be able to use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances.

M.6.4. Students will be able to identify the sounds of different instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures, as well as children's voices and male and female adult voices.

M.6.5. Students will be able to respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent features in a piece of music.

NH.M.7. Music: Evaluate music and music performances.

M.7.1. Students will be able to devise criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.

M.7.2. Students will be able to explain, using appropriate music terminology, personal preferences for specific musical works and styles.

NH.M.8. Music: Understand relationships among music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

M.8.1. Students will be able to identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts.

M.8.2. Students will be able to identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines are related to those of music.

NH.M.9. Music: Understand music in relation to history and culture.

M.9.1. Students will be able to identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures.

M.9.2. Students will be able to describe in simple terms how elements of music are used in various world cultures.

M.9.3. Students will be able to identify many uses of music in their daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.

M.9.4. Students will be able to identify and describe the roles of musicians in music settings and cultures.

M.9.5. Students will be able to demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.

M.9.6. Students will be able to describe the way music has been a continuous part of the history of human culture.

NH.M.10. Music: Identify the range of careers in the field of music.

M.10.1. Students will be able to identify occupations in which people sing or play musical instruments .

M.10.2. Students will be able to identify local resources where people can take part in singing.

M.10.3. Students will be able to identify professions where skills of arranging and composing music are used.

M.10.4. Students will be able to recognize that people evaluate music and music performances.

NH.T.1. Theatre: Students will create theatre through improvising, writing and refining scripts.

T.1.1. Students will be able to collaborate to select interrelated characters, environments, and situations for classroom dramatizations.

T.1.2. Students will be able to improvise dialogue to tell stories, then formalize their improvisations by writing or recording the dialogue.

NH.T.2. Theatre: Students will act by developing, improvising, communicating and sustaining characters.

T.2.1. Students will be able to imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their environments.

T.2.2. Students will be able to use variations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and vocal pitch, tempo, and tone for different characters.

T.2.3. Students will be able to assume roles in classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.

NH.T.3. Theatre: Students will design and produce the technical elements of theatre through artistic interpretation and execution.

T.3.1. Students will be able to visualize environments and construct designs to communicate locale and mood.

T.3.2. Students will be able to organize available materials that suggest scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup in a collaborative group .

NH.T.4. Theatre: Students will direct by planning or interpreting works of theatre by organizing and conducting rehearsals.

T.4.1. Students will be able to collaboratively plan and prepare improvisations

T.4.2. Students will be able to demonstrate various ways of staging classroom dramatizations such as using storytelling, video cameras, or movement

NH.T.5. Theatre: Students will research, evaluate and apply cultural and historical information to make artistic choices.

T.5.1. Students will be able to communicate information to peers about people, events, time, and place related to classroom dramatizations.

NH.T.6. Theatre: Students will make curriculum connections among theatre, the arts, and other disciplines.

T.6.1. Students will be able to describe visual, aural, oral, and kinetic ( involving movement) elements in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.

T.6.2. Students will be able to compare how ideas and emotions are expressed in theatre, dramatic media, dance, music, and visual arts.

T.6.3. Students will be able to select movement, music, or visual elements to enhance the mood of a classroom dramatization.

T.6.4. Students will be able to identify connections between theatre and other disciplines in the curriculum.

NH.T.7. Theatre: Students will analyze, critique and construct meanings from works of theatre.

T.7.1. Students will be able to identify and describe the visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements of classroom dramatizations and dramatic performances.

T.7.2. Students will be able to explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to, and different than, their own.

T.7.3. Students will be able to articulate emotional responses to and explain personal preferences about the whole as well as the parts of dramatic performances.

T.7.4. Students will be able to analyze classroom dramatizations and, using appropriate terminology, constructively suggest alternative ideas for dramatizing roles, arranging environments, and developing situations; also suggest means of improving the collaborative processes of planning, playing, responding, and evaluating.

NH.T.8. Theatre: Students will demonstrate an understanding of context by analyzing and comparing theatre in various cultures, historical periods and everyday life.

T.8.1. Students will be able to 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.

T.8.2. Students will be able to identify and compare the various settings and reasons for creating drama and attending theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions.

T.8.3. Students will be able to articulate the ways in which participation in theatre arts enhances daily lives.

NH.T.9. Theatre: Understand the range of careers in the field of theatre arts and identify careers associated with this field.

T.9.1. Students will be able to discuss how creating theatre takes the efforts of many people with many different skills.

T.9.2. Students will be able to describe a variety of professions in the field of theatre and identify careers that are associated with theatre.

T.9.3. Students will be able to identify New Hampshire theatre resources (play groups, theatres, playhouses).

NH.V.1. Visual Arts: Apply appropriate media, techniques, and processes.

V.1.1. Students will be able to differentiate between materials, techniques, and processes of making art.

V.1.2. Students will be able to describe how different techniques, media, and processes produce different effects and personal responses.

V.1.3. Students will be able to use various materials, techniques, and processes to communicate and express ideas, experiences, and stories.

V.1.4. Students will be able to use art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

V.1.5. Students will be able to communicate and express ideas symbolically.

NH.V.2. Visual Arts: Identify and apply the elements of visual art and principles of design.

V.2.1. Students will be able to recognize the visual elements including color, shape, form, space, line, value, and texture.

V.2.2. Students will be able to describe the principles of design including balance, unity and rhythm.

V.2.3. Students will be able to describe how different expressive features, and ways of organizing them, cause different responses.

V.2.4. Students will be able to create works of art that use the elements of art and principles of design to communicate and express ideas.

NH.V.3. Visual Arts: Select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.

V.3.1. Students will be able to explore and understand prospective content for works of art.

V.3.2. Students will be able to create art, selecting and using appropriate subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.

NH.V.4. Visual Arts: Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.

V.4.1. Students will be able to know that the visual arts have both a history and a specific relationship to various cultures.

V.4.2. Students will be able to identify specific works of art in particular cultures, times, and places.

V.4.3. Students will be able to describe how history, culture, and visual arts influence each other.

V.4.4. Students will be able to identify a variety of art objects, artists, and resources specific to New Hampshire.

V.4.5. Students will be able to create a work of art that reflects an understanding of how history or culture can influence visual art.

NH.V.5. Visual Arts: Analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' artwork.

V.5.1. Students will be able to identify various purposes for creating works of art.

V.5.2. Students will be able to describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific art works.

V.5.3. Students will be able to understand that people may respond in different and equally valid ways to specific art works.

V.5.4. Students will be able to describe their personal responses to specific works of art using visual art terminology.

V.5.5. Students will be able to identify possible improvements in the process of creating their own work.

NH.V.6. Visual Arts: Students will make connections among the visual arts, other disciplines, and daily life.

V.6.1. Students will be able to identify connections among the visual arts and other arts disciplines.

V.6.2. Students will be able to understand that similarities exist between the visual arts and other disciplines.

V.6.3. Students will be able to describe how the visual arts are used in the world around us and how they are part of our everyday life.

V.6.4. Students will be able to describe how the visual art design principles are expressed in multi-media presentations and daily life.

NH.V.7. Visual Arts: Understand the range of careers in the field of visual arts and identify careers associated with this field.

V.7.1. Students will be able to identify a variety of professions in the visual arts.

V.7.2. Students will be able to describe various kinds of artists and fields of art particular to New Hampshire .