Fine Arts, Health and PE

Question 1

A physical education teacher wants to develop students’ appreciation for fair play along with their health-related fitness. Which of the following strategies best supports the teacher’s goal during a soccer game?

Answer 1

Recognizing supportive behavior among teammates.

Question 2

An instructor has demonstrated to students how different lighting instruments and colored gels can work to enhance the stage area. Which of the following theatrical terms most pertains to lighting and lighting design?
a) arena
b) drop
c) fresnel
d) apron

Answer 2

c) fresnel

Question 3

Administrators at an elementary school want to provide opportunities for physical activity to their students to promote better health and increase academic achievement. Which of the following actions is most appropriate for administration to take?

Answer 3

Promoting after-school programs that reinforce the physical education of the regular school day.

Question 4

A physical education teacher is introducing jump rope skills to a first-grade class. The teacher notices that a couple of students are struggling to jump over the moving rope after several attempts. Which of the following best demonstrates how the teacher can modify instruction for the students who need more help?

Answer 4

Allowing the students to swing the rope over their head in an arc and stop at the toes before jumping over it

Question 5

Planning and implementing physical education activities for students with disabilities in the least restricted environment can most accurately be accomplished by
a) gearing activities toward each student’s unique abilities to the greatest extent possible
b) offering an alternative program for students with disabilities
c) recommending students with disabilities participate as activity scorekeeper
d) providing private instruction for students with disabilities

Answer 5

a) gearing activities toward each student’s unique abilities to the greatest extent possible

Question 6

Which of the following is the most commonly used measure for evaluating obesity among children and adolescents in a school setting?
a) Skin-fold thickness
b) Underwater weighing
c) Body mass index
d) Waist-to-hip ratio

Answer 6

c) Body mass index

Question 7

1. Running in place
2. Touching toes
3. Jumping jacks
4. Arm circles
   After the warm up is completed the teacher leads a follow up activity. Students will throw balls of various sizes back and forth with a partner, slightly increasing the distance by stepping back after each round of three successful throws. What is the teacher demonstrating using developmentally appropriate exercises that enhance students

Answer 7

manipulative skills.

Question 8

A physical education teacher observes that many students in class struggle with flexibility. Which of the following strategies is most appropriate to help students improve flexibility?

Answer 8

Requiring specific stretches to accompany physical activities

Question 9

Stability balls, polyspots, stilts, rocker boards
The use of the equipment listed above best promotes acquisition of which of the following skill-related fitness components?
a) Agility
b) Balance
c) Power
d) Speed

Answer 9

b) Balance

Question 10

Which of the following strategies best supports a teacher who is incorporating non-locomotor movement into a first-grade physical education class?

Answer 10

Instructing students to bend and twist like the waves on the seashore.

Question 11

Which of the following actions best demonstrates that a student possess the ability to show empathy?

Answer 11

a student offers to help a classmate who is feeling left out.

Question 12

Which of the following is the initial step in developing a comprehensive plan to prevent bullying at school?

Answer 12

identifying how often bullying occurs and where is most often happens.

Question 13

Which of the following instructional strategies most appropriately encourages elementary students to interact socially to solve a common problem?

Answer 13

Having students play a parachute game that requires them to work together to reach an established goal.

Question 14

Which of the following activities will best help to prepare first-grade students to apply safety procedures to protect themselves from potential dangers?

Answer 14

Practicing appropriate skills and behaviors for situations that students have identified as confusing or uncomfortable.

Question 15

A teacher wants to encourage students to respond to everyday life choices with behaviors that promote safe living at home, at school, and in the community. Which of the following student activities best addresses the effective use of decision-making skills?

Answer 15

Role-playing different courses of action to take when facing different problems.

Question 16

Which of the following pairs of opposites is used to describe dynamics in music?
a) fast/slow
b) high/low
c) loud/soft
d) smooth/choppy

Answer 16

c) loud/soft

Question 17

Which of the following world cultures historically performed theatre as a religious festival honoring Dionysus, a god of wine and fertility, in hopes that celebrants would be granted many children, rich land, and abundant crops?
a) Greek
b) japanese
c) West African
d) Native American

Answer 17

a) Greek

Question 18

A teacher plays Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” while students use silent movement to express their reaction to the music. Afterward, the teacher divides the students into groups of four, instructing them to compose group poems about the experience, with each student contributing a line or two. Which of the following is the primary purpose for which the teacher is using movement and sound?
a) as an introduction to dance
b) as an introduction to improvisation
c) as a catalyst for creative writing
d) as a catalyst for conflict resolution

Answer 18

c) as a catalyst for creative writing

Question 19

According to TEKs which skills or knowledge are supported by having all of the students in a class room perform a short scripted dramatization of life a Ellis Island immigrants.

Answer 19

Creative expression and performance and historical and cultural heritage.

Question 20

Which movement is easiest for a kindergarten student when playing music games in the classroom.

Answer 20

walking

Question 21

When choosing folk music for a listening lesson, it is most important for the teacher to select music that does what?

Answer 21

Representative of the style

Question 22

A music teacher is having students fill in empty measures with note values according to time signatures. Which of the following subject areas is best supported by this type of music lesson?
a) Science
b) Literature
c) Mathematics
d) Social Studies

Answer 22

c) Mathematics

Question 23

Student singing is considered to be flat what does this mean?

Answer 23

pitch is too low

Question 24

Official state of Texas song

Answer 24

Texas, Our Texas

Question 25

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” and “We Shall Overcome” mostly closely associated with which of the following time periods and public gathering?

Answer 25

Civil Rights rallies during the 1960’s.

Question 26

Person who leads an orchestra

Answer 26

Conductor

Question 27

Which of the following actions is the first step to take when teaching a song by rote?
a) The teacher sings the entire song, without accompaniment, while students listen
b) The teacher explains new vocabulary, then reads the lyrics to the students
c) The teacher and students sing the song together using recorded accompaniment
d) The teacher sings the song one line at a time, echoed by the students

Answer 27

a) The teacher sings the entire song, without accompaniment, while students listen

Question 28

Reinforcing a geography lesson. Music accompanying the dancer is played on the accordion, fiddle, and tin whistle. What country is this?

Answer 28

Scotland

Question 29

Which of the following music types had the most influence on the development of the blues?
a) Classical piano music
b) Fieldwork songs
c) Military marches
d) Opera songs

Answer 29

b) Fieldwork songs

Question 30

Which of the following music-arranging activities is most appropriate for third-grade students creating an accompaniment to a familiar song?

Answer 30

clapping while they listen to the song.

Question 31

During a unit on ancient civilizations, fourth-grade students learn that ancient Egyptian art most frequently focused on
a) using public artworks to enhance daily life
b) protecting the unconscious mind from harm
c) attaining enlightenment through contemplation
d) ensuring the well being of the deceased in the afterlife

Answer 31

d) ensuring the well being of the deceased in the afterlife

Question 32

A second-grade teacher demonstrates to the class how to create an ink-blot print by painting on one side of a piece of paper, folding the paper in half, pressing the dry side on to the wet paint, and then opening the paper. This demonstration can be used most effectively to introduce which of the following principles of visual design?

Answer 32

contrast

Question 33

Which TWO of the following are printmaking processes?
a) Tempera
b) Collage
c) Engraving
d) Linocut

Answer 33

Engraving and Linocut

Question 34

A sixth grade teacher has planned a unit on the life and work of the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. The teacher presents a large reproduction of Rembrandt’s etching. Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, shown, and asks each student to examine the work more closely to see how Rembrandt created his image. Based on their observations of Rembrandt’s technique. The students correctly state that
a) Overlapping lines create darker values
b) The forms are flattened through gradation
c) Negative space is the dominant feature
d) Color is needed to complete the work

Answer 34

a) Overlapping lines create darker values

Question 35

According to art education Viktor Lowenfeld, author of Creative and Mental Growth, the drawings of most children in the 7 through 9-year-old age range fall within which of the following stages of artistic development?
a) The scribbling stage
b) The schematic stage
c) The pre-schematic stage
d) The pseudo-naturalistic stage

Answer 35

b) The schematic stage

Question 36

For traditional art making processes such as painting, the three primary colors are
a) red, green, and blue
b) red, yellow, and blue
c) yellow, orange, and violet
d) blue, green, and yellow

Answer 36

b) red, yellow, and blue

Question 37

Which of the following color schemes uses colors that are adjacent to one another on the color wheel and contain a common color (e.g., blue-green, green, and yellow-green)?
a) Analogous
b) Complementary
c) Monochromatic
d) Split complementary

Answer 37

a) Analogous

Question 38

For kindergarten children who are first learning to paint with watercolors, it is most useful for the teacher to demonstrate which TWO of the following?
a) That paint will not adhere to a wax resist such as a crayon drawing
b) That careful application of paint can be used to shade objects
c) That adding water to paint will cause the color to become lighter and more transparent
d) That a dry painting should be protected by spraying it was acrylic varnish

Answer 38

a and c

Question 39

A fifth grade class has been studying the French Impressionist Claude Monet’s series of water lilies paintings, exemplified by the artwork shown. After an in-depth classroom discussion. The students correctly agree that the painting demonstrates Monet’s use of sight and observational skills to capture
a) the changing nature of light and reflection
b) the clear, sharp edges of the forms he observed
c) an illusion of space through the use of linear perspective
d) form through the exaggerated contrast of light and dark

Answer 39

a) the changing nature of light and reflection

Question 40

Which of the following activities to teach the relationship between quarter notes and eighth notes is appropriate for first-grade students?
a) One group pats quarter notes while another group pats 2 eighth notes to each quarter note
b) One group pats quarter notes while another group pats 3 eighth notes to each quarter note
c) One group pats quarter notes while another group pats 4 eighth notes to each quarter note
d) One group pats quarter notes while another pats 5 eighth notes to each quarter note

Answer 40

a) One group pats quarter notes while another group pats 2 eighth notes to each quarter note

Question 41

In “Ah Poor Bird” the numbers in the square indicate that the song
a) has three verses
b) is in triple
c) is in a major key
d) can be sung as a sound

Answer 41

d) can be sung as a sound

Question 42

In “Ah Poor Bird” which measure contains the note G on the second beat?
a) Measure 1
b) Measure 2
c) Measure 3
d) Measure 4

Answer 42

b) Measure 2

Question 43

Which of the following music-arranging activities is most appropriate for third-grade students creating an accompaniment to a familiar song?
a) Composing a two-part harmony to sing with the song
b) Inventing a two-hand piano part to play with the song
c) Composing a rhythm pattern to clap while listening to the song
d) Improvising a countermelody to sing simultaneously with the song

Answer 43

c) Composing a rhythm pattern to clap while listening to the song

Question 44

A fourth grade teacher shows students pictures of music instruments and asks what family they belong to. Which family does the instrument in the picture belong to?
a) Woodwing
b) String
c) Brass
d) Percussion

Answer 44

c) Brass

Question 45

When choosing folk music for a listening lesson, it is most important for the teacher to select music that is
a) in a major key
b) sung in English
c) representative of the style
d) well liked by most students

Answer 45

c) representative of the style

Question 46

Which of the following activities will best help to prepare first-grade students to apply safety procedures to protect themselves from potential dangers?
a) Creating a list of safety rules to follow and reference when interacting with strangers
b) Reading a current events article to students about a time when a child was in a scary and dangerous situation
c) Practicing appropriate skills and behaviors for situations that students have identified as confusing or uncomfortable
d) Having students write a paragraph about the importance of following safety rules and having a plan of action for an emergency situation

Answer 46

c) Practicing appropriate skills and behaviors for situations that students have identified as confusing or uncomfortable

Question 47

1) Running in place
2) Touching toes
3) Jumping jacks
4) Arm circles
Which of the following movements used in the warm-up activity best supports improvements in students’ throwing skills?
a) Movement 1
b) Movement 2
c) Movement 3
d) Movement 4

Answer 47

d) Movement 4

Question 48

By engaging students in the follow up activity the teacher best demonstrates an understanding of the importance of using developmentally appropriate exercises that enhance students’
a) manipulative skills
b) nonlocomotor skills
c) rhythmic skills
d) locomotor skills

Answer 48

a) manipulative skills

Question 49

Which of the following tasks will best encourage students to explore various elements and occupations associated with the theatre?
a) students attend a live performance during a field trip to a local theatre company
b) students write three sentences about a job (e.g., actor, stage crew) they found most interesting after a field trip to a local theatre company
c) Students mount a classroom production, filling assigned roles of various jobs in the theatre
d) Students identify and label the parts of a stage on a simple diagram of a theatre

Answer 49

c) Students mount a classroom production, filling assigned roles of various jobs in the theatre