Arts Resources Students Understand: Level 6

Year(s)

Level(s)

Duration

Teacher

Classroom

6

Understanding Dance in Context

Explore, investigate, and describe the features and background of a variety of dance genres/styles.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Dance

Develop and demonstrate their dance skills in at least one selected dance genre/style and explore the use of a variety of dance technologies.

Developing Ideas in Dance

Select and use choreographic devices, structures, processes, and technologies to develop and give form to dance ideas.

Communicating and Interpreting in Dance

Prepare, rehearse, and perform a range of dances and demonstrate an understanding of the performance requirements of the genre and context of the dances.

Describe, explain, and respond to the ways in which dance uses elements, devices, structures, the performers, and production technologies to communicate ideas, feelings, and experiences.

o   Drama

Understanding Drama in Context

Investigate the forms and purposes of drama in different historical or contemporary contexts, including New Zealand drama.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama

Apply elements and select techniques, conventions, and technologies in a range of dramatic forms.

Developing Ideas in Drama

Research, evaluate, and refine ideas in a range of dramatic forms to develop drama.

Communicating and Interpreting in Drama

Perform and respond to drama and make critical judgments about the use of elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies to create form and meaning.

o  Sounds Art- Music 

Understanding Sound Arts – Music in Context

Investigate and analyse sound environments, technologies, musical styles, and genres from historical, social, and cultural contexts.

Consider and reflect on the influence of music in their own music making and in their lives.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Sound Arts – Music

Apply and demonstrate understanding of musical devices and structures, using aural perception, practical and theoretical skills, stylistic conventions, and technologies.

Developing Ideas in Sound Arts – Music

Create, structure, refine, and represent sound works to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.

Reflect on composition processes and presentation conventions.

Communicating and Interpreting in Sound Arts – Music

Rehearse, present, record, and evaluate musical performances.

Critically reflect on the expressive qualities of live and recorded sound and music.

Understanding Visual Arts in Context

Research, compare, and contrast the relationship between the production of art works and the contexts in which they were made, viewed, and valued.

Consider and reflect on the contexts underlying their own work.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Visual Arts

Apply knowledge of a range of conventions from established practice, using appropriate processes and procedures.

Developing Ideas in Visual Arts

Generate, develop, and clarify ideas, with some understanding of established practice.

Sequence and link ideas as they solve problems in a body of work, using observation and invention with materials.

Communicating and Interpreting in Visual Arts

Identify and analyse processes and procedures from established practice that influence ways of communicating meaning.

Investigate, analyse, and evaluate ideas and interpret artists' intentions in art works.

Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

Additional Curriculum areas

o Social Sciences   

o Learning Languages 

o Technology 

o Maths 

o Te Reo 

o English  

o Health and P.E.

o Sciences

Write the Achievement Objective (s) to be assessed:

Students will:

Specific Learning Outcomes

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

Setting

oNew Zealand   oRekohu (The Chatham Islands)   oAsia 

 oAustralia         oAmericas                                oGlobal

Perspective:    o The past (History)         o The Present (Current Issues)         oThe Future.

                          o Multicultural           oEquality        oRights        oIndigenous people        oGender  

Key Competencies focus:

(Select only those being focussed on)

o managing self

o relating to others

o participating and contributing

o thinking

o using language, symbols, and texts.

Teaching and Learning Activities

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Resources

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Assessment Schedule

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Unit Evaluation

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