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:
Music Course Descriptions and Sample Lessons
- Sample Lesson Plan: More Than Meets the Eye: Signal and Map Songs of the Underground Railroad
- 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
- 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
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
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