Best Practice

Florida Standards and Art Course Descriptions

These resources are designed to help you fully utilize CPALMS and arts course descriptions and create successful learning experiences for your students.

Creating Learning Goals, Success Criteria, and Rubrics

• Address Success with Tools You Can Use
• The GUIDE: Creating Learning Goals, Success Criteria, and Rubrics

Creating Essential Questions

• Look Who's Focused Now: Essential Questions and YOU!
• Creating Essential Questions
• Essential Questions Checklist

Course Descriptions and Lesson Plans

Dance Course Description and Sample Lessons

M/J Dance Celebration for Students of Mixed Mobilities (#0300090)

Sample Lesson Plans:

• Moving Imagery: Exploring Movement Through Poetry
• Space Exploration: It's Elemental!

Music Course Descriptions and Sample Lessons

Elementary Chorus (#5013010)

• Sample Lesson Plan: More Than Meets the Eye: Signal and Map Songs of the Underground Railroad

Music of the World (#1300340)

• Sample Lesson Plan: Current Music of Non-Western Cultures: Indigenous, 21st Century, or Fusion?

Theatre Course Descriptions and Sample Lessons

M/J Technical Theatre: Design and Production (#0400110)

• Sample Lesson Plan: From Stage to Stage

Theatre 2 (#0400320)

• Sample Lesson Plan: Unlocking the Playwright Within: Statues

Visual Art Course Descriptions and Sample Lessons

M/J Creative Photography 1 (#0102040)

• Sample Lesson Plan: Breaking Out of the Confines: David Hockney's Joiners

Ceramics/Pottery 1 (#0102300)

Sample Lesson Plan

• Sample Lesson Plan: Slab-Built Forms: Symmetry in Positive and Negative Space

Additional Course Descriptions

Dance Course Descriptions

• Dance – Grade 1 (#5003020)Kids Dance
• World Dance (#0300300)
• Dance Choreography/Performance 2 – Honors (#0300390)

Music Course Descriptions

• M/J Orchestra 2 (#1302050)
• Music Technology and Sound Engineering 1 (#1304300)

Theatre Course Descriptions

• Theatre – Grade Kindergarten (#5010200)
• The Business of Theatre: Management and Promotion (#0400515)

Visual Art Course Descriptions

• Art - Grade 2 (#5001030) Art Class
• Arts Collaboration: Designing Solutions for Art, Work, and Life – Honors (#0102340)
• Portfolio Development: 3-Dimensional Design – Honors (#0109330)

Additional Resources

Course Code Directory
Access to All Approved Course Descriptions (by school year) and more

CPALMS
Access to Course Descriptions, Standards, and iCPALMS Tools

Florida’s Standards and Course Descriptions: Arts Implementation with Fidelity Webinar Series
Four, 1-hour Presentations on the Arts Course Descriptions and the Updated iCPALMS Planning Tools. Includes information on:

• Learning Goals and Success Criteria
• Essential Questions
• Assessment

Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings in the Arts (pdf)

Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings in the Arts (docx)