Visual and Performing Arts Framework-Complete - Free Downloads (CA Dept of Education)

Grade One Content Standards

Component Strand: 3.0 Historical and Cultural Context

Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts

Understanding the Historical Understanding the Historical Understanding the Historical Understanding the Historical

Contributions and Cultural Contributions and Cultural Contributions and Cultural Contributions and Cultural

Dimensions of Dance Dimensions of Music Dimensions of Theatre Dimensions of the Visual Arts

Students analyze the function Students analyze the role of Students analyze the role Students analyze the role and
and development of dance in music in past and present and development of theatre, development of the visual arts
past and present cultures cultures throughout the film/video, and electronic in past and present cultures
throughout the world, noting world, noting cultural diver- media in past and present throughout the world, noting
human diversity as it relates sity as it relates to music, cultures throughout the human diversity as it relates
to dance and dancers. musicians, and composers. world, noting diversity as it to the visual arts and artists.
Development of Dance Role of Music relates to theatre. Role and Development
3.1 Name and perform
folk/traditional dances

3.1 Recognize and talk about

music and celebrations of

Role and Cultural

Significance of Theatre

of the Visual Arts
3.1 Recognize and discuss
from other countries. the cultures represented 3.1 Identify the cultural the design of everyday
3.2 Describe aspects of the in the school population. and geographic objects from various time

3.3

style, costumes, and

music of a dance.

List commonalities

among basic locomotor

movements in dances

from various countries.

Diversity of Music

3.2 Sing and play simple

singing games from

various cultures.

3.3 Use a personal vocabu­

origins of stories.

History of Theatre

3.2 Identify theatrical con­

ventions, such as props,

costumes, masks, and

periods and cultures.

3.2 Identify and describe

various subject

matter in art

(e.g., landscapes,

seascapes, portraits,

History and Function
of Dance

lary to describe voices,

instruments, and music

from diverse cultures.

3.3

sets.

Describe the roles

and responsibilities of

still life).
Diversity of the Visual Arts
3.4 Identify where and when
people dance.

3.4 Use developmentally

appropriate movements

audience and actor. 3.3 View and then describe

art from various cultures.

in responding to music 3.4 Identify art objects

from various genres, from various cultures

periods, and styles (e.g., Japanese screen

(rhythm, melody, form). painting, Mexican tin art,

African masks) and

describe what they have

in common and how they

differ.

Indicates a key content standard for the grade level. See page 23 for information on key content standards.