Georgia State Standards for Arts Education: Kindergarten
Currently Perma-Bound only has suggested titles for grades K-8 in the Science and Social Studies areas. We are working on expanding this.
GA.1. Fine Arts: Dance
1.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in developmental warm-up exercises.
1.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in activities using principles of dance technique.
1.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates nonlocomotor axial movement, such as bending, twisting, and swinging.
1.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates locomotor movement, such as walking, running, and hopping, and concepts, such as transfer of weight and change of direction.
1.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops awareness of spatial concepts (e.g., personal space and general space).
1.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Explains how health and nutrition enhance dance ability.
1.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates shapes and level changes through movement.
1.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of force (energy) (e.g., smooth, tight, loose, and vibratory).
1.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to move in various directions and patterns.
1.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to steady beat or changes in tempo through movement.
1.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Improvises movement based on own ideas, feelings, concepts, and kinesthetic awareness.
1.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates the ability to work with a partner.
1.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Develops self-discipline and positive work habits through dance.
1.14. Connections: Relates dance to other subject areas.
1.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Develops the ability to describe one's own dance as well as another's dance.
1.16. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies within a dance sequence a beginning, middle, and end.
1.17. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Identifies various approaches to solving a compositional question.
1.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Implements various approaches to solving a compositional question.
1.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes dance as a means of communication, expression, and interaction.
1.20. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in dance activities representing a variety of cultures.
GA.2. Fine Arts: General Music
2.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to music through listening, moving, singing, and playing instruments.
2.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Recognizes repeated patterns in melody, rhythm, and text.
2.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies contrasts in music: loud-soft and fast-slow.
2.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the sounds of classroom instruments (i.e., drums, autoharp, piano, and guitar).
2.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Distinguishes between vocal and instrumental timbre.
2.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Performs with increasing accuracy in pitch and tone quality by singing developmentally appropriate songs.
2.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Responds to a steady beat through movement.
2.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates awareness of steady beat through playing an instrument.
2.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in song stories, singing games, and musical dramatizations.
2.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates simple accompaniments using body percussion or classroom instruments.
2.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Moves expressively to music.
2.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects and adds simple vocal and percussive sounds to songs, poems, and stories.
2.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level.
2.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates new texts for familiar songs.
2.15. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in group singing of rote songs.
2.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Participates in musical activities representing a variety of cultures.
GA.3. Fine Arts: Theatre Arts
3.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses simple drama and theatre arts terms.
3.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates behaviors needed to participate in drama activities.
3.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Identifies the five senses and describes sensory experiences in immediate surroundings.
3.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Reacts to imaginary objects and environments in drama activities.
3.5. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates kinesthetic awareness, self-control, and expression.
3.6. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Locates and uses designated playing area for drama.
3.7. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses voice and speech to express thought, feeling, and role.
3.8. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Assumes roles in drama activities.
3.9. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses simple objects and available materials as props, scenery, and costumes for dramatic play and drama activities.
3.10. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Selects topics and stories to dramatize.
3.11. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Names the basic elements of drama: who, where, when, and what.
3.12. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Contributes to planning simple dramas verbally.
3.13. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Dramatizes stories and ideas in a variety of forms including dramatic play, story drama, pantomime, and/or choral speaking.
3.14. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Participates in the creative drama process in a group setting: Pre-Playing (participates in warm-up activities, generates ideas about story, topic, or theme); Preparation (listens to story and discusses ideas, determines drama elements: who, when, where, and what; sequence of actions); Playing (assumes roles in drama); Evaluation/Reflection (critiques playing, discusses meaning); Replay (builds on suggestions, enhances with simple technical elements); Sharing (shares drama with the group).
3.15. Connections: Recognizes art forms of drama, music, dance, and visual arts.
3.16. Connections: Explores content from language arts, science, math, foreign language and fine arts through dramatic activities.
3.17. Connections: Dramatizes ideas, concepts, and events based on the Social Studies curriculum topic, My Family and My World.
3.18. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: States the difference between pretend and real life.
3.19. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: States personal reactions to dramatic presentations.
3.20. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Names the role of the audience.
3.21. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community, and professional resources for theatre experiences.
3.22. Historical and Cultural Context: Dramatizes stories from a variety of cultures.
GA.4. Fine Arts: Visual Arts
4.1. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates art with different subjects and themes and from personal experiences.
4.2. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Creates artworks-drawings, painting, pottery, sculptures, prints, fiber arts, and mixed media-emphasizing one or more art elements (e.g., color, line, shape, form, texture, and pattern).
4.3. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model, construct, and compose original artworks.
4.4. Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing: Demonstrates proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
4.5. Connections: Applies concepts and ideas from another discipline and its topics as sources of ideas for own artworks.
4.6. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Names and identifies colors, such as red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, black, brown, white, and gray (pigment colors).
4.7. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Points out and describes lines, as thick, thin, straight, and broken.
4.8. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes and names shapes, such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and organic (free-form).
4.9. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes form as not flat.
4.10. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Explores and names texture, such as smooth and rough.
4.11. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Recognizes colors, lines, shapes, textures, and patterns in artworks and in nature.
4.12. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Describes and compares subjects and themes of artworks.
4.13. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Uses art terms with emphasis on the elements of art to talk about own artworks and art reproductions.
4.14. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Expresses preference for one of two or three art reproductions.
4.15. Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Understanding: Offers ideas about what art is and who are artists.
4.16. Historical and Cultural Context: Views and talks about Western and non-Western artworks of significant artists that have recognizable subjects and themes.
4.17. Historical and Cultural Context: Points out clues in selected artworks that determine time and place.