Grade 3 Fine Arts Iowa Standards

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life. (Embedded within: MU:Cr1.1.3a, MU:Pr4.2.3c, MU:Pr6.1.3b, MU:Re7.2.3a, MU:Re9.1.3a)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music. (Embedded within: MU:Cr2.1.3a, MU:Cr3.2.3a, MU:Pr4.1.3a, MU:Pr4.3.3a, MU:Re7.1.3a)

Connecting

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.

Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure of the music.

a. Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

Responding

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of group performances (formal or informal).

Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using iconic and/or standard notation.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.

Performing

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.

Improvise (for self and/or others) rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).

Creating

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. (Imagine)

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. (Plan and Make)

Refine and complete artistic work. (Evaluate and Refine)

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent.

Refine and complete artistic work. (Present)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Select)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Analyze)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Interpret)

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. (Rehearse, Evaluate, Refine)

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. (Present)

Perceive and analyze artistic work. (Select)

Perceive and analyze artistic work. (Analyze)

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. (Interpret)

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. (Evaluate)

Connects music with other disciplines while preserving the integrity of authentic musical learning experiences.

Recognizes and respects the commonality and diversity among the cultures and histories of the world through musical experiences.

Listens, responds, describes, analyzes and evaluates music critically.

Demonstrates literacy by reading and notating music fluently using appropriate processes and systems.

Creates music and movement using critical thinking to improvise and compose through a collaborative and flexible process.

Uses instruments and body percussion to effectively communicate, collaborate with a group, and produce a musical product.

Uses song, speech, and movement to effectively communicate, collaborate with a group, and produce a musical product.