Music
Visual Arts
Dance
Drama
Artsy Fartsy
100
The unique qualities of sound
What is timber?
100
He is quoted to have said or written "A painter takes the sun and makes it into a yellow spot. An artist takes a yellow spot and makes it into a sun"
Who is Picasso?
100
This is what BEST stands for
What is Body Effort Space Time
100
Mime is short for this
Pantomime
100
This means staccato
What are short bursts of music?
200
Blending of tones or sounds (e.g. chords), when two or more pitches are blended simultaneously.
What is harmony?
200
the way something feels or looks like it would feel
What is texture
200
The difference between actions of the body that cover space and ones that do not
What is locomotor and nonlocomotor?
200
These create mood in a dramatic piece (three elements)
What is setting, lighting, pace, characters use of words, body
200
theory about knowledge and learning… [that] describes knowledge not as truths to be transmitted or discovered, but as emergent, developmental, nonobjective, viable constructed explanations by humans engaged in meaning-making in cultural and social communities of discourse
What is constructivism?
300
This composer is ommonly associated with 9 symphonies
Who is Beethoven
300
illusion of distance and point of view crated by techniques such as size, overlapping, atmosphere, sharpness or blurriness, and angles
What is perspective?
300
List two (of the four) examples for dance lesson starters and hooks?
What is Cumulative Name Game: In a circle, first student makes a dance movement to express his/her name, second student does the first student’s dance movement, then his/her own, and so on. Freeze: Play music and tell students to move in specific ways (using BEST) and freeze when the music stops. Fantasy Journey: Teacher reads story or series of movements and students dance the movement e.g. Put your feel into warm water and wiggle your toes, now put your legs in and swish around Add on: In a line, one students starts a dance, then next adds on, etc.
300
List three of the seven dramatic skills
What is Use of the body: Verbal expression: Focus: Imagination: Evaluation: Social skills: Audience etiquette:
300
These are three things that the arts teach children
What are good judgement, problem solve, multiple perspective, more than one solution, language does not define limits of cognition, arts are important, various ways of expressions, creativity
400
These are three activities that support awareness of musical elements and concepts to help students use musical intelligences and develop vocabulary:
What are: rainstorm simulation call and response songs play songs and allow students to create images music bingo with composers and vocabulary name that instrument name that song canons and rounds (harmony) Infuse art and music: play music at certain times during the day Use music to introduce something new (unit, topic, etc.) or settle students Sing with students: The day song in Kindergarten (Today is Tuesday, What a happy day….) Teach Songs & analyze meanings (e.g. John Mayer’s Waiting on the world to change) Use energizing warm ups: chants, songs, cheers, etc., some of which students know Use Children’s Literature related to music: Shel Silverstien’s Where the Sidewalk Ends, Charlie Parker plays be bop Teach about composers/musicians, celebrate musician’s birthdays Use (Canadian) Folk Songs (Farewell to Nova Scotia, This land is your land, Bud the Spud, etc.) Use specialists in your class: local musicians, etc
400
List 3 guidelines for teaching students about making art
What is Teach out to use a variety of media, tools & technique: Use a variety of surfaces (fabric, wool, etc.) Use explore-practice-express lesson sequence Limit direction giving Give descriptive feedback (vs. praise) Do not ask “what is it?” Create an atmosphere and expectation for appropriate behaviour (silence, music, etc.) Invite students to write stories about their art Connect art to students lives Refrain from using paint by numbers, colouring book
400
List the four descriptors we can use to assess dance (or any strand in any curriculum)
What is knowledge, thinking/inquiry, communication, application?
400
These are the typical four types of conflict (there is a also a fifth:)
What is character vs. nature, character vs. societal rules or instructions, character vs. character, character vs. inner self. (new fifth: character vs. technology)
400
a visual and written portrait illustrating several aspects of the character's life within the literary work.
What is a body biography?
500
He composed Swan Lake
Who is Tchsaikovsky?
500
This activity starts with students reading through books and having students sketch images, make notes and connections to the text, capturing children's in-process thinking and becomes a source of ideas.
What is sketch to stretch
500
This stands for CODE
What is the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators
500
He is quoted to have said "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Who is Albert Einstein
500
What are three of the stages in the creative process?
What are: • challenging and inspiring • imagining and generating • planning and focusing • exploring and experimenting • producing preliminary work • revising and refining • presenting, performing, and sharing • reflecting and evaluating Or feedback