Grade 3 - Arts Education

Big Ideas

Curricular Competency

Content

Exploring and creating

Reasoning and reflecting

Communicating and documenting

The mind and body work together when creating works of art.

Creative experiences involve an interplay between exploration, inquiry, and purposeful choice.

Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.

The arts connect our experiences to the experiences of others.

Choose elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques, and environments of the arts

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

Explore identity, place, culture, and belonging through arts experiences

Explore relationships among cultures, communities, and the arts

Observe, listen, describe, inquire, and predict how artists (dancers, actors, musicians, and visual artists) use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques

Refine ideas, processes, and technical skills in a variety of art forms

Reflect on creative processes and make connections to personal experiences

Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating, and interpreting works for art

Apply learned skills, understandings, and processes in new contexts

Interpret and communicate ideas using symbolism in the arts

Express feelings, ideas, and experiences in creative ways

Describe and respond to visual and performing art pieces and provide constructive feedback

Experience, document and share creative works in a variety of ways

Demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application and/or engagement of curricular content

elements in the arts, including but not limited to:

dance: body, space, dynamics, time, relationships, form

drama: character, time, place, plot, tension

music: beat/pulse, duration, rhythm, tempo, pitch, timbre, dynamics, form, texture

visual arts: elements of design: line, shape, space, texture, colour, form; principles of design: pattern, repetition, rhythm, contrast, emphasis

processes, materials, technologies, tools, and techniques to support arts activities

notation to represent sounds, ideas, and movement

a variety of dramatic forms

image development strategies

choreographic devices

symbolism as ways of creating and representing meaning

traditional and contemporary Aboriginal arts and arts-making processes

a variety of local works of art and artistic traditions from diverse cultures, communities, times, and places

personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing, or sharing in a safe learning environment