(1) The benchmark for arts content standard 6 for a student at the end of grade 8 is the ability to:

(a) compare and explain how the characteristic materials of each art (e.g., sound in music, visual stimuli in visual arts, movement in dance, human interrelationships in theatre) correlate to similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas;

(b) utilize interrelated elements among the arts and other subject areas;

(c) explore vocational and avocational opportunities in the arts; and

(d) identify how works of art reflect the environment in which they are created.