New York State Arts Standards

Elementary Level

New York State ART #1

Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.

Visual Arts - Key Idea: Students will make works of art that explore different kinds of subject matter, topics, themes, and metaphors. Students will understand and use sensory elements, organizational principles, and expressive images to communicate their own ideas in works of art. Students will use a variety of art materials, processes, mediums, and techniques, and use appropriate technologies for creating and exhibiting visual art works.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. experiment and create art works, in a variety of mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, video, and computer graphics), based on a range of individual and collective experiences.

   • Students will be using a medium to create the artwork of a map.

3. understand and use the elements and principles of art (line, color, texture, shape) in order to communicate their ideas.

   • Students will be using principals of art in communicating the community found in the book through a map.

New York State ART #2

Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in arts in various roles.

Visual Arts - Key Idea: Students will know and use a variety of visual arts materials, techniques, and processes. Students will know about resources and opportunities for participation in visual arts in the community (exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries) and use appropriate materials (art reproductions, slides, print materials, electronic media). Students will be aware of vocational options available in the visual arts.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. understand the characteristics of various mediums (two-dimensional, three-dimensional, electronic images) in order to select those that are appropriate for their purposes and intent.

   • Students will be choosing a medium appropriate for their map.

2. develop skills with electronic media as a means of expressing visual ideas.

   • Depending upon students choices, they may be using an electronic medium for their map.

3. develop skills with electronic media as a means of expressing visual ideas.

   • Depending upon students choice, they may be using an electronic medium for their map.

New York State ELA #1

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas, discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Key Idea: Listening and Reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. interpret and analyze information from textbooks and nonfiction books for young adults, as well as reference materials, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and electronic data bases intended for a general audience.

   • Students will be creating their own appropriate map legends using a standard map legend as a base.

3. use a wide variety of strategies for selecting, organizing, and categorizing information.

   • Students will be using a sheet to organize their information about the world found in a science fiction book.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing to acquire and transmit information requires asking probing and clarifying questions, interpreting information in one’s own words, applying information from one context to another, and presenting the information and interpretation clearly, concisely, and comprehensibly.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. produce oral and written reports on topics related to all school subjects.

   • Students will create a report in the form of a map.
   • Student will present map orally to classmates.

4. develop information with appropriate supporting material, such as facts, details, illustrative examples or anecdotes, and exclude extraneous material.

   • Students will support map with quotes from the science fiction book.

New York State ELA #2

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

Students will read and listen to oral, written and electronically produced texts and performances, relate texts and performances to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language for self-expression and artistic creation.

Key Idea: Listening and Reading for literary response involves comprehending, interpreting, and critiquing imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text, and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. read and view texts and performances from a wide range of authors, subjects, and genres

   • Students will be reading a science fiction novel.

2. understand and identify the distinguishing features of the major genres and use them to aid their interpretation and discussion of literature

   • Students are introduced to the fact that science fiction books are usualy set in other words or times; current maps would not be an aid to understanding the book.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing for literary response involves presenting interpretations, analysis, and reactions to the content and language of a text. Speaking and writing for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. present responses to and interpretations of literature, making reference to the literary elements found in the text and connections with their personal knowledge and experience.

   • Students will create a map based on the book and as well as their experience of how communities are organized.

4. use standard English effectively.

   • Students will speak in standard English when presenting their map.

New York State ELA #3

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will present, in oral and written language and from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Key Idea: Listening and Reading to analyze and evaluate experiences, ideas, information, and issues requires using evaluative criteria from a variety of perspectives and recognizing the difference in evaluations based on different sets of criteria.

Performance Indicators

Students:

1. analyze, interpret, and evaluate information, ideas, organization, and language from academic and nonacademic texts, such as textbooks, public documents, book and movie reviews, and editorials.

   • Students will be interpreting information found in the book to create their map.

Key Idea: Speaking & Writing for critical analysis and evaluation requires presenting opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information, and issues clearly, logically, and persuasively with reference to specific criteria on which the opinion or judgment is based.

Performance Indicators

Students:

2. develop arguments with effective use of details and evidence that reflect a coherent set of criteria (e.g., reporting results of lab experiments to support a hypothesis).

   • Students will support their map with quotes.

New York State ELA #4

Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

Students will use oral and written language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.

Key Idea: Listening and speaking Oral communication in formal and informal settings requires the ability to talk with people of different ages, genders, and cultures, to adapt presentations to different audiences, and to reflect on how talk varies in different situations.

Performance Indicators

Students:

2. express ideas and concerns clearly and respectfully in conversations and group discussions.

   • Students will answer questions politely and effectivly in their presentation.

4. use verbal and nonverbal skills to improve communication with others.

   • Students will explain map choices and quotes.
   • Students will speak audibly.
   • Students will answer questions politely.

New York State MST #1 - Mathematics

Students will: use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

Mathematical Analysis

Key Idea: Abstraction and symbolic representation are used to communicate mathematically.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. Use special mathematical notation and symbolism to communicate in mathematics and to compare and describe quantities, express relationships, and relate mathematics to their immediate environments.

   • Students will be creating a scale on their maps.

Key Idea: Deductive and inductive reasoning are used to reach mathematical conclusions.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. use simple logical reasoning to develop conclusions, recognizing that patterns and relationships present in the environment assist them in reaching these conclusions.

   • Students will be turning English words found in a novel into an appropriate map with locations and scale.

New York State MST #2 - Information Systems

Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.

Key Idea: Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.

Performance Indicators

Students will

1. use a variety of equipment and software packages to enter, process, display, and communicate information in different forms using text, tables, pictures, and sound.

   • Depending upon choices, students may be using a computer drawing program.

3. access needed information from printed media, electronic data bases, and community resources.

   • Students will be completing this project through information gained on a Quia page and Rubistar.

Key Idea: Students use measurement in both metric and English measure to provide a major link between the abstractions of mathematics and the real world in order to describe and compare objects and data.

Performance Indicators

Students will

2. select appropriate standard and nonstandard measurement tools in measurement activities.

   • Students will be selecting a scale for their map that is appropriate.

New York State MST #4

Students will: understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Computer Technology

Key Idea: Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Performance Indicators

Students will

2. use the computer as a tool for generating and drawing ideas.

   • Depending upon their choices, students may use the computer to create their map.

New York State SS #3

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live-local, national, and global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.

Geography

Key Idea: Geography can be divided into six essential elements which can be used to analyze important historic, geographic, economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical settings (inculding natural resources) and, human systems, environment and society, and the use of geography.

Performance Indicators

Students will

2. draw maps and diagrams that serve as representations of places, physical features, and objects.

   • Students will draw a map.

Key Idea: Geography requires the development and application of the skills of asking and answering geographic questions; analyzing theories of geography; and acquiring, organizing, and analyzing geographic information.

Performance Indicators

Students will