Arts Resources Students Understand: Level 7

Year(s)

Level(s)

Duration

Teacher

Classroom

7

Understanding Dance in Context

Investigate and evaluate the effects of individual, social, cultural, and technological influences upon the development of a variety of dance genres/styles.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Dance

Extend their dance skills in the vocabularies, practices, and technologies of selected dance genres.

Developing Ideas in Dance

Choreograph solo and group dance works, using choreographic processes, devices, structures, and technologies to communicate choreographic intentions.

Generate, plan, and record choreographic ideas and processes.

Communicating and Interpreting in Dance

Apply rehearsal and performance skills to demonstrate the practices and/or stylistic characteristics of a range of dance contexts and genres, using appropriate technique, focus, expression, and production technologies to communicate specific intentions.

Analyse, explain, and discuss aspects of dance performance and choreography in a range of their own and others' dance works.

o   Drama

Understanding Drama in Context

Research the purposes of production, performance, and technologies of drama in a range of contexts, including New Zealand drama and how it reflects our growing cultural diversity.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama

Apply elements, select, and refine the use of techniques, conventions, and technologies in specific dramatic forms.

Developing Ideas in Drama

Research, critically evaluate, and refine ideas in specific dramatic forms to develop drama.

Communicating and Interpreting in Drama

Rehearse and perform works in a range of dramatic forms.

Respond to and make critical judgments about rehearsal processes and performances.

o  Sounds Art- Music 

Understanding Sound Arts – Music in Context

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

Use their understanding of the purposes, expressive qualities, and affects of music to reflect on the value of music in their lives.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Sound Arts – Music

Apply, analyse, and demonstrate understanding of musical qualities, 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 and musical arrangements to express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.

Reflect on and evaluate composition processes and presentation conventions.

Communicating and Interpreting in Sound Arts – Music

Rehearse, present, record, and evaluate sustained musical performances that demonstrate interpretive understandings.

Critically analyse and evaluate music-making and production processes to inform interpretations and responses to sound and music.

Understanding Visual Arts in Context

Research and analyse the influences of contexts on the characteristics and production of art works.

Research and analyse the influence of relevant contexts on their own work.

Developing Practical Knowledge in Visual Arts

Apply understanding from research into a range of established practice to extend skills for particular art-making purposes, using appropriate processes and procedures in selected fields.

Extend skills in a range of technologies.

Developing Ideas in Visual Arts

Generate, clarify, and extend ideas in a selected field, related to established practice.

Use a systematic approach to the in-depth development of ideas.

Communicating and Interpreting in Visual Arts

Research and analyse how art works are constructed and presented to communicate meanings.

Use critical analysis to interpret and respond to 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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