Arts Education:

Content Standard 1: Learn and develop the essential skills and technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 2: Use dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts to express ideas.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 3: Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as all other content areas.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 4: Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 5: Observe, discuss, analyze, and make critical judgments about artistic works.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 6: Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 8: Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama, and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Social Studies:

Content Standard 1: Students will use knowledge and cultural understanding to explain how the world's people cope with ever-changing conditions, examine issues from multiple perspectives, and respond to individual and cultural diversity.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 4: Students will know and understand the ways in which human beings view themselves and others over time.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 5: Students will know and understand relationships and patterns in history in order to understand the past and present and to prepare for the future.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 6: Students will know and understand how personal and group identities are shaped by culture, physical environment, individuals, groups and institutions.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 11: Students will know and understand the diverse, dynamic, and ever-changing nature of culture.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Language Arts:

Content Standard 1: Students will understand and use Language Arts for communication.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 2: Students will understand and use Language Arts as a learning tool.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 3: Students will listen and read for a variety of purposes.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 5: Students will speak clearly and write effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 9: Students will use language and literature to gain insight into their own and others' lives, and to build understanding of the moral and aesthetic dimensions of human experience.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 10: Students will use state-of-the-art computer and other technology to gather, use and synthesize information, and to create and communicate knowledge.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Science:

Content Standard 6: Students will understand the process of scientific inquiry.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8

Content Standard 9: Students will know and understand the concepts of energy and the transformation of energy.
Benchmark: K-4, 5-8



For additional standards go to:

National Education Technology Standards