Level 2: Achievement Objectives

	Dance	Drama	Music	The Visual Arts
Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts	Students will identify and explore through movement the dance elements of body awareness, space, time, energy, and relationships.	Students will explore and use elements and techniques of drama for different purposes.	Students will identify through focused listening, and explore, the musical elements of beat, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, and tone colour.	Students will identify and explore elements and principles of the visual arts, using a variety of techniques, tools, materials, processes, and procedures.
Developing Ideas in the Arts	Students will initiate and express dance ideas based on a variety of stimuli.	Students will contribute and develop ideas in drama based on personal experience, imagination, and other stimuli.	Students will invent and represent musical ideas, drawing on imagination and responding to sources of motivation.	Students will develop visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, using imagination, observation, and invention with materials.
Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts	Students will share dance through informal presentation and describe how dance expresses ideas and feelings	Students will share drama through informal presentation and respond to elements of drama.	Students will share music making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music.	Students will describe ways in which objects and images can communicate stories and ideas.
Understanding the Arts in Context	Students will demonstrate an awareness of dance as part of community life.	Students will identify drama as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.	Students will identify music as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.	Students will identify objects and images in everyday life and recognise that they serve a variety of purposes.

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