Level 3: Achievement Objectives

	Dance	Drama	Music	The Visual Arts
Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts	Students will explore through movement, combine, and contrast the dance elements of body awareness, space, time, energy, and relationships.	Students will use elements and techniques of drama to explore dramatic conventions.	Students will identify through focused listening, and experiment with, contrasts within musical elements.	Students will apply knowledge of elements and principles to make objects and images and explore art-making conventions, using a variety of techniques, tools, materials, processes, and procedures.
Developing Ideas in the Arts	Students will select, combine, and use elements of dance to develop ideas.	Students will initiate and develop ideas with others and improvise drama in a range of situations.	Students will invent and represent musical ideas to express mood, using shape and contrast.	Students will generate and 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 present dance and respond to their own and others' dance works within their school communities.	Students will present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements of drama combine with ideas to create meaning.	Students will prepare and present music, using basic performance skills and techniques, and respond to live or recorded music performances.	Students will describe how selected objects and images communicate different kinds of ideas.
Understanding the Arts in Context	Students will explore and describe how dance is used for different purposes in a variety of cultures.	Students will investigate the purposes of drama in past and present contexts and describe how communities express themselves through drama.	Students will identify and investigate characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes, and styles in past and present cultures.	Students will investigate the purposes of objects and images in past and present cultures and identify contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.

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