Learning Links
Theme / Architecture / Tragedy / Comedy / Conflict / Style / Choreography / Concerto / Crafts / Reviews / Plot / Fashion / Documentary / Trend / Construction / Logic / Automobiles
Related Concepts
Observation / Reflection / Inferences / Perception / Interpretation / Criticism
Demonstrators should be read from bottom to top, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Identify and express arts concepts in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Communicate recognition of the diversity of art forms and structures in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Compare and contrast formal design, style, and structure within each discipline (music, dance, drama, and visual art).
• Evaluate personal artistic creations and those of others using vocabulary from music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Compare and contrast diverse art forms and structures in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Analyze own and others' work in music, dance, drama, and visual arts using appropriate concepts and terminology.
• Reflect on own and others' artwork and identify influences from a wide variety of artwork.
High School Demonstrators
• Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in music, dance, drama, and visual arts.
• Use formal styles and structures in music, dance, drama, and visual arts to combine and organize two or more art concepts.
• Analyze, evaluate, and revise own work and/or works of others in music, dance, drama, and visual arts using appropriate concepts and terminology.
• Evaluate own and others' artistic creations and styles.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies
Collaborative Process: Peer Tutoring / Community-Based Instruction: Field Studies / Continuous Progress Assessment: Checklist, Observation, Self-assessment / Graphic Organizers: Compare/Contrast Structures, Graphic Representations / Problem Solving: Inquiry, Reasoning, Simulation / Technology/Tools: Computers / Whole Language Approach / Writing Process
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources:
• Attend a local theatre or musical production and write a review for the school and/or local newspaper.
• Tour a local art gallery and critique a visual art form.
• Interview reporters about criteria they use in their evaluation processes.
Core Concept - Analysis of Forms
Sample Elementary Activities
• Identify the similar and different phrases in "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." P
• Compare and contrast artworks done by the same artist over time. OE, P
• Role-play a salesperson selling a piece of art to fellow students. Describe such things as line, shape, color and proportion. PE, OE
• Plan and make an artwork that is appropriate for a children's hospital. PE, P
• Arrange pitched instruments (e.g., bottles with water) from low to high. Use the instruments for story background using the concepts of high-low, fast-slow, and loud-soft. PE
• Produce animal-like sounds with available instruments. Use the sounds to make an audio or video tape advertisement for a zoo. PE, P
• Perform a folk dance. Draw and analyze the step patterns. PE, OE, P
Applications Across the Curriculum
Language Arts
• Choose a favorite illustrator of children's books. Write the illustrator a letter describing the reasons he/she was selected using appropriate concepts and terminology. PE, OE, P
Science
• Select an appropriate material and build a topographic model which accurately depicts a landform. PE, P
Mathematics
• Select a photograph of a person in a magazine. Cut in half and reproduce the missing half stressing symmetry and proportion. PE, P
Social Studies
• Construct models of architectural styles for homes and/or churches from various periods and cultures. PE, P
Practical Living
• Analyze architectural design of homes on a walk through a neighborhood. Form categories and create a presentation on the types of neighborhood homes. P
Vocational Education
• Create an animated production on the alphabet via computerized technology. PE, P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Map/chart differences and similarities between two musical selections or visual artworks. PE
• View a scene from a movie and analyze the character development. OE, P
• Select artists from countries studied in Social Studies and foreign language. Create a design with music and movement portraying the artist's lifestyle and work. PE, P
• Describe your plan/idea for an artwork in your personal journal prior to designing or performing. Record the impact of the creative process on your original plan. OE, P
• Compare and contrast art pieces viewed in a medical office and a business office. OE, P
• Compare and contrast the conceptual elements (e.g., meter, tempo, dynamics, tonality) as represented in the dance segments of the Nutcracker Suite. OE, P
Applications Across the Curriculum
Variations on a theme: Depiction of an animal
Language Arts
• Write a detailed description of a particular attribute of a selected animal. OE
Science
• Analyze an animal using three different perspectives, such as a microscope, your eyes, binoculars. PE, OE
Mathematics
• Examine animals in the graphics of artists like M.C. Esher. Create similar graphic tessellations and modifications of a selected animal. PE
Social Studies
• View works of artists from several different time periods who represented animals. Evaluate the reasons for differences and how those differ from your representation. PE, OE
Practical Living
• Design a survey to find out the most popular animal among your classmates. Develop an ad to appeal to that popularity. PE, OE, P
Vocational Education
• Develop an ad campaign to depict the group's most popular animal. P
Sample High School Activities
• Generate a checklist of criteria needed to review a performance or product. Use the criteria to evaluate a performance/product you have experienced. OE, P
• Write an editorial to critique your class play or favorite television program. Publish in class, school, or local newspaper. OE, P
• Write and perform a musical sketch about some event in the history of your community. PE, P
• Do an analysis of a community artist's work for the school paper OE, P
• Analyze a magazine advertisement regarding the effect color and design has on increasing appeal. OE, P
• Attend or view a ballet; critique the appropriateness of the movements used to portray the feelings of the main characters. OE, P
Applications Across the Curriculum
Language Arts
• Read a contemporary novel written for young adults. Choose one of the following individual or group projects to present to the class: -Art: Create and display a piece of visual art (e.g., drawings, sculpture, collage) which depicts a specific scene. - Drama: Rewrite and perform a specific scene in play form (e.g., dialogue, stage directions). - Dance: Choreograph a dramatic moment. - Music: Write and perform a song depicting a specific scene. After all individuals and groups have presented their projects, analyze the effects that each has on the message it delivers. PE, OE, P
Science
• Establish criteria to evaluate student-generated models of the cell. OE, P Analyze musical instruments to find relationships to scientific principles. OE, P
Mathematics
• Use projective geometry to draw 3-dimensional objects in 2-dimensions. PE, OE, P
Social Studies
• Compare the art of two different historical periods (e.g., romanticism to realism, Spanish-American War to World War II). Prepare a presentation illustrating similarities and differences. PE, OE
Practical Living
• Perform a dance in a group and critique performance for appropriateness of music, movement sequences, and full group participation. PE, OE Analyze the use of art elements and principles in the design of costumes worn by actors/actresses in a play. OE
Vocational Education
• Critique a radio or television commercial for message and impact. Create a revised commercial. PE, OE