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Standard Identifier: 3.DA.Cr1

Grade: 3
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Choreographers use a variety of sources as inspiration and transform concepts and ideas into movement for artistic expression.
Essential Question(s): Where do choreographers get ideas for dances?
Process Component(s): Explore

Performance Standard(s):
a. Experiment with a variety of self-identified stimuli (e.g., music/sound, text, objects, images, notation, observed dance, experiences) for movement. b. Explore a given movement problem. Select and demonstrate a solution.

Standard Identifier: 3.DA:Cr3

Grade: 3
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Choreographers analyze, evaluate, refine, and document their work to communicate meaning
Essential Question(s): How do choreographers use self-reflection, feedback from others, and documentation to improve the quality of their work?
Process Component(s): Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Revise movement choices in response to feedback to improve a short dance study. Describe and document the differences the changes made in the movements.

Standard Identifier: 3.DA:Pr6

Grade: 3
Discipline: Dance
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Dance performance is an interaction between performer, production elements, and audience that heightens and amplifies artistic expression.
Essential Question(s): How does a dancer heighten artistry in a public performance?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify the main areas of a performance space using production terminology (e.g., stage right, stage left, center stage, upstage, and downstage). b. Explore production elements for a dance performed for an audience in a designated specific performance space.

Standard Identifier: 3.MA:Cr1

Grade: 3
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts.
Essential Question(s): How do media artists generate ideas? How can ideas for media arts productions be formed and developed to be effective and original?
Process Component(s): Conceive

Performance Standard(s):
Develop multiple ideas for media artworks using a variety of tools, methods and/or materials.

Standard Identifier: 3.MA:Cr3

Grade: 3
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks.
Essential Question(s): What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality? How do media artists refine their work?
Process Component(s): Construct

Performance Standard(s):
a. Construct and order various content into unified, purposeful media arts productions, describing and applying a defined set of aesthetic principles, such as movement and force. b. Practice and analyze how the emphasis of elements alters effect and purpose in refining and completing media artworks.

Standard Identifier: 3.MA:Pr6

Grade: 3
Discipline: Media Arts
Artistic Process: Producing (Media Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Media artists purposefully present, share, and distribute media artworks for various contexts.
Essential Question(s): How does time, place, audience, and context affect presenting or performing choices for media artworks?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Identify and describe the presentation conditions, audience, and results of presenting media artworks.

Standard Identifier: 3.VA:Cr1.1

Grade: 3
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 1.1 Creativity and innovative thinking are essential life skills that can be developed.
Essential Question(s): What conditions, attitudes, and behaviors support creativity and innovative thinking? What factors prevent or encourage people to take creative risks? How does collaboration expand the creative process?
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

Standard Identifier: 3.VA:Cr1.2

Grade: 3
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: 1.2 Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
Essential Question(s): How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help us create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic
Process Component(s): Imagine, Plan, Make

Performance Standard(s):
Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.

Standard Identifier: 3.VA:Cr3

Grade: 3
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 3: Refine and complete artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique to reflect on, revise, and refine work over time.
Essential Question(s): What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely?
Process Component(s): Reflect, Refine, Revise

Performance Standard(s):
Discuss, reflect, and add details to enhance an artwork’s emerging meaning.

Standard Identifier: 3.VA:Pr6

Grade: 3
Discipline: Visual Arts
Artistic Process: Presenting (Visual Arts only)
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Objects, artifacts, and artworks collected, preserved, or presented either by artists, museums, or other venues communicate meaning and a record of social, cultural, and political experiences resulting in the cultivating of appreciation and understanding.
Essential Question(s): What is an art museum? How does the presenting and sharing of objects, artifacts, and artworks influence and shape ideas, beliefs, and experiences? How do objects, artifacts, and artworks that are collected, preserved, or presented, cultivate appreciation
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
Investigate and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

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