TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.
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Curriculum Overview
In the Grade 3 arts curriculum, learners are encouraged to be creative every day.
- In the Dance program, students begin to use personal experience, imagination, and familiar movements to develop a movement vocabulary, to respond to prompts and express ideas, and to communicate their thoughts and feelings in various situations.
- The Grade 3 Drama curriculum explores the student’s self, family, personal experiences, and world. Through guided practice, students begin to develop the ability to use creative and critical thinking processes, building upon prior knowledge and experience from their diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
- In the primary grades, students experience and explore the elements of music through singing, listening to, and moving to a variety of songs, rhymes, and chants. In Grade 3, they perform simple rounds, create and perform soundscapes and melodies based upon the pentatonic scale, and begin to identify and appreciate the role of music in their lives.
- In the Visual Arts program, learners begin to explore art in the world around them, to understand that people all over the world create and enjoy art, and to develop the ability to communicate about their immediate environment and interests through visual images.
The arts curriculum is divided into four strands:
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
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Learning Activities
Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.
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Resources for Learning
Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.
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Apply the Learning
Choose from the following to consolidate learning across The Arts.
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Imagine that you are a bee and a butterfly. How would your movements change if you were first moving like a bee and then like a butterfly?
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Think about various First Nation dances or folk dances of early settlers. Why do people in the community dance, even though they are not professionals?
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View dance numbers in animated movie musicals such as Happy Feet and Ice Age. Did you see interesting dance movements or patterns that you would like to include in your own dance pieces?
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Think about snow falling or ice melting. How can you change the patterns' duration by changing the gestures and movements in each A and B section?
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Think about your favourite picture book or story. What music or sound effects might you create to retell this story to create the mood of what is happening? Where would you change the music or add different sound effects?
- Think about a puppet show compared to a live play. How is a puppet show different from a live play? What does a puppet need to do differently from a live actor?
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If you had the choice to play any role in a movie, play, festival or carnival which role would you pick and why?
- Brainstorm a variety of instruments. How many different ways can you sort these instruments on the basis of how they are played or what sounds they make.
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How might you show others how to sing ’Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ without singing it to them? What would you use?
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How have songs or chants helped you remember things? Create a song/chant that will help you remember to do or remember something important in your everyday life!
- Using found objects in nature create a symmetrical sculpture. Explore Andy Goldsworthy's art work with natural materials for inspiration.
- Create a logo that represents who you are. How might you portray your essence through symbols, shapes and words?
- Create a flip book to show movement about weather using a variety of lines and shapes drawn in pencil or marker.
- Use stencil prints in warm and cool colours to create a simplified pattern inspired by your favourite fruit.
- Create a diorama or sculpture to make insects and habitat with various natural materials.
Vocabulary
Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.
Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
body actions
body shapes
effort
interconnected shapes
character
character
freeze frame
gestures
improvisation
mime
perspectives
role play
canons
harmony
dotted half note
rounds
sixteenth note
sixteenth rest
tertiary form
asymmetrical
background
composite shape
cool tints
etching
foreground
illusionary texture
middleground
symmetrical
variety of line
warm tints
