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Curricular Competency Explore connections to identity, place, culture, and belonging through creative expression Arts Education 5 Exploring and creating
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Curricular Competency

Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play

Arts Education 5 Exploring and creating
Keyword: purposeful play Elaboration: learning that uses real-life and/or imaginary situations to engage and challenge learners’ thinking. Through planned purposeful play, students express their natural curiosity while exploring the world around them. It also provides a means for high-level reasoning and problem solving in a variety of ways. Learning can be performed collaboratively in both solo and ensemble contexts. 
Curricular Competency Intentionally select artistic elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments to express meaning in their work Arts Education 5 Exploring and creating
Keyword: elements Elaboration: characteristics of dance, drama, music, and visual arts
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: refers to both digital and non-digital implements and the processes that artists employ in the creation of art, in traditional and
Big Ideas People connect to others and share ideas through the arts. Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: arts Elaboration: includes but is not limited to the four disciplines of dance, drama, music, and visual arts
Big Ideas Dance, drama, music, and visual arts express meaning in unique ways. Arts Education 1 No CCG
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Big Ideas Engagement in the arts creates opportunities for inquiry through purposeful play. Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: arts Elaboration: includes but is not limited to the four disciplines of dance, drama, music, and visual arts
Keyword: inquiry Elaboration: an approach to learning based on students’ questions, wonderings and observations
Big Ideas People create art to express who they are as individuals and community. Arts Education 1 No CCG
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Content personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or sharing in a safe learning environment Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: personal and collective responsibility Elaboration: ensuring the physical and emotional safety of self and others when engaging in the arts; being considerate of sensitive content, facilities, and materials
Keyword: sharing Elaboration: includes any form of presentation as outlined in the Connecting, Creating, Presenting, and Responding in Arts Education resource
Content a variety of local works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures and communities Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: works of art Elaboration: the results of creative processes in disciplines such as dance, drama, music, and visual arts
Content traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: Aboriginal arts Elaboration: dances, songs, stories, and objects created by Aboriginal peoples for use in daily life or to serve a purpose inspired by ceremonies as part of cultural tradition
Content symbolism as a means of expressing specific meaning Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: symbolism Elaboration: use of objects, words, or actions to represent abstract ideas; includes but is not limited to colours, images, movements, and sounds (e.g., a sad mood could be represented with blue colours, a slow tempo, or a legato line)
Content a variety of dramatic forms Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: dramatic forms Elaboration: a medium for the expression of dramatic meaning (e.g., improvisation, tableau, role-play, mime, readers theatre, story theatre); may involve the integration of a variety of media and a combination of the arts
Content notation to represent sounds, ideas and movement Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: notation Elaboration: any written, visual, or kinetic form of representing music compositions; for example, the use of invented notation to represent sound can be used; in dance, this can include written formal and informal systems of symbols, shapes, and lines that represent body position and movement
Content

elements in the arts, including but not limited to:

  • dance: body, space, dynamics (dance), time, relationships, form
  • drama: character, time, place, plot
  • music: beat/pulse, rhythm, tempo, pitchdynamics (music), form (music)
  • visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, texture, colour; principles of design: pattern, repetition
  • processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools and techniques to support arts activities
Arts Education 1 No CCG
Keyword: dance Elaboration: the elements of dance are universally present in all dance forms and grow in sophistication over time
Keyword: body Elaboration: what the body is doing, including whole or partial body action, types of movement (locomotor and non-locomotor), etc.
Keyword: space Elaboration: where the body is moving, including place, level, direction, pathway, size/reach, shape, etc.
Keyword: dynamics (dance) Elaboration: how energy is expended and directed through the body in relation to time (quick/sustained), weight (strong/light), space (direct/indirect), and flow (free/bound)
Keyword: time Elaboration: how the body moves in relation to time, including beat (underlying pulse), tempo, and rhythmic patterns
Keyword: relationships Elaboration: with whom or what the body is moving; movement happens in a variety of relationship including pairs, groups, objects, and environments
Keyword: form Elaboration: The shape or structure of a dance; the orderly arrangement of thematic material. For example: phrase, beginning, middle, end, ABA, canon, call and response, narrative, abstract
Keyword: character Elaboration: in drama, taking on and exploring the thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and beliefs of another
Keyword: rhythm Elaboration: the arrangement of sounds and silences over time
Keyword: tempo Elaboration: the frequency or speed of the beat
Keyword: pitch Elaboration: the property of how high or low a note is
Keyword: dynamics (music) Elaboration: the level of loudness, softness, or changing volume of music (e.g., louder, softer)
Keyword: form (music) Elaboration: the structure of a musical work (e.g., AB form; same/different phrases)
Keyword: line Elaboration: e.g., thick, thin, wavy, zigzag, jagged, etc.
Keyword: shape Elaboration: 2-dimensional enclosed space, as compared to form which is 3-dimensional
Keyword: texture Elaboration: the way something feels (e.g., smooth, rough, fuzzy)
Keyword: principles of design Elaboration: the planned use of the visual elements to achieve a desired effect
Keyword: pattern Elaboration: a design in which shapes, colours or lines repeat with regularity
Keyword: repetition Elaboration: using the same object, colour, marking, or type of line more than once
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: includes both manual and digital technologies (e.g., electronic media, production elements, information technology, sound equipment and recording technologies, etc.); in visual arts, any visual image-making technology (e.g., paintbrush, scissors, pencil, stamp) and includes the improvisational use of miscellaneous items.
Keyword: music Elaboration: The elements of music are universally present in all forms of vocal and instrumental music and grow in sophistication over time.
Curricular Competency Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content Arts Education 1 Communicating and documenting
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