Grade 3 Fine Arts Missouri Standards

Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.

Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent .

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose and context.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation.

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Apply teacher provided and collaboratively - developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue .

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure , the use of the elements of music , and context (such as personal and social).

Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria , and describe appropriateness to the context .

Research

Interrelate

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Empathize

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

CONNECT

Evaluate

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Interpret

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Reflect

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

RESPOND

Share, Present

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Prepare

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

PERFORM

Rehearse

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Envision/Conceptualize

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

CREATE

Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama/theatre work.

Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a drama/theatre work.

Collaborate to determine how characters might move and speak to support the story and given circumstances in drama/theatre work.

Participate in methods of investigation to devise original ideas for a drama/theatre work.

Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group drama/theatre work.

Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama theatre work.

Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Practice and refine design and technical choices to support a devised or scripted drama/theatre work.

Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama/theatre work.

Identify connections to community,social issues and other content areas in drama/theatre work.

Explore how stories are adapted from literature to drama/theatre work.

Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama/theatre conventions.

Understand why artistic choices are made in a drama/theatre work.

Consider multiple personal experiences when participating in or observing a drama/theatre work.

Consider multiple ways to develop a character using physical characteristics and prop or costume design choices that reflect cultural perspectives in drama/theatre work.

Examine how connections are made between oneself and a character’s emotions in drama/theatre work.

Understand how and why groups evaluate drama/theatre work.

Consider and analyze technical elements from multiple drama/theatre works.

Evaluate and analyze problems and situations in a drama/theatre work from an audience perspective.

Apply the elements of dramatic structure to a story and create a drama/theatre work.

Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into drama/theatre work.

Participate in a variety of physical, vocal, and cognitive exercises that can be used in a group setting for drama/theatre work.

Identify the basic technical elements that can be used in drama/theatre work.

With prompting and support, demonstrate appropriate audience ettiquette for the venue and purpose.

Practice drama/theatre work and share reflections individually and in small groups

Connect

Respond

Present

Create

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

Synthesize

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.

Relate

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Elaborate on an imaginative idea

Play & Ideation

Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the artmaking process.

Investigation

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Create personally satisfying artwork using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

Skill Acquisition

Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

Safety & Ethics

Individually or collaborativel y construct representatio ns, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

Creating Interactions with Art

Refine and complete artistic work.

Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.

Reflect - Refine - Continue

Select, Analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Investigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Select

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Identify exhibit space and prepare works of art including artists' statements, for presentation.

Analyze

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

Share

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Perceive

Determine messages communicate d by an image.

Analyze

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristic s of form and mood.

Interpret

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Evaluate an artwork based on given criteria.

Evaluate