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Enduring Understanding: Dance is interpreted by considering intent, meaning, and artistic expression as communicated through the use of the body, elements of dance, dance technique, dance structure, and context.
Essential Question(s): How is dance interpreted?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Select specific context cues from movement. Explain how they relate to the main idea of the dance using basic dance terminology.

Enduring Understanding: : Media artworks synthesize meaning and form cultural experience.
Essential Question(s): How do we relate knowledge and experiences to understanding and making media artworks? How do we learn about and create meaning through producing media artworks?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Use personal and external resources, such as interests, information, and models, to create media artworks. b. Identify and show how media artworks form meanings, situations, and/or culture, such as popular media.

Enduring Understanding: Media artworks and ideas are better understood and produced by relating them to their purposes, values, and various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does media arts relate to its various contexts, purposes, and values? How does investigating these relationships inform and deepen the media artist's understanding and work?
Process Component(s): Relate

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify how media artworks and ideas relate to everyday life and culture and can influence values and online behavior. b. Examine and interact appropriately with media arts tools and environments, considering safety, rules, and fairness.

Enduring Understanding: Identifying the qualities and characteristics of media artworks improves one's artistic appreciation and production.
Essential Question(s): How do we 'read' media artworks and discern their relational components? How do media artworks function to convey meaning and manage audience experience?
Process Component(s): Perceive

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify and describe how messages are created by components in media artworks. b. Identify and describe how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience.

Enduring Understanding: Interpretation and appreciation require consideration of the intent, form, and context of the media and artwork.
Essential Question(s): How do people relate to and interpret media artworks?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Determine the purposes and meanings of media artworks while describing their context.

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Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Standard:
Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement. A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, and can be used to measure area.

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Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

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Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement. A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.

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Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Standard:
Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).

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Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

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Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition. Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.

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Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Standard:
Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition. Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.