Interesting. We have national music and art standards, set by the national music education and the national art education groups. I thought shape America was a similar thing. When I was in college we learned both our national standards (it was like 9 I think at the time, they've since changed) and the state ones, which are more exact for each grade level and then have guiding standard parts where its more in depth.

So the national standard 1 was, singing alone and with others a variety of music.

Which for kindergarten in NC looked like: use accurate pitch to imitate two pitch melodic patterns.

And for fifth grade looked like: illustrate accuracy and independence while singing and playing instruments with a group or ensemble.

And then in 2024 NC changed the standards again to match more the current technology and time. We have standards on copyright and musical careers now that we didnt have before.

So I assumed the state pe standards are built off of the national ones from SHAPE since that's a national organization. Ill have to ask my PE teacher what they base them off of then. Maybe its just more important for the arts nationally. Fascinating.