Wild Rivers: Photo competition
Encourage your students to get snapping and enter this photo competition run by the Forest & Bird conservation organisation. Photograph your favourite wild river scene. Prizes include a Leica camera. Visit the website for more information.
http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/saving-our-environment/freshwater-/wild-rivers-/ wild-rivers-photo-competition
02-02-2010

LEARNZ
Register to find information about past and upcoming arts virtual field trips. Registration and enrolment in all trips is free for New Zealand registered teachers teaching in New Zealand schools.
http://www.learnz.org.nz
02-11-2009

Alignment of NCEA standards with The New Zealand Curriculum
Take a look at the draft Level 1 standards, matrix, rationale, and archived consultation materials for art history, dance, drama, music, and visual arts.
http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/alignment-standards.php
28-10-2009

Symbol 2 Sound - Sound 2 Symbol
This NCEA (levels 2 & 3) unit is designed to develop students' abilities to explore and use visual symbols to create, structure and represent musical instrumentations/arrangements and compositions, and express imaginative thinking and personal understandings.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/music_units/symbol_2_sound/
17-09-2009

Do you want to be on TV? Pitch TV3 a story idea
Are you interested in sustainability? Can you spot a good story? Have you always wanted to be on TV? Are you still at secondary school? If you can answer yes to all these questions, then TV3 has the competition for you! Pitch us a 'good news' story idea about any aspect of sustainability that interests you and you could end up on national television.
http://www.tv3.co.nz/sustainability
17-09-2009

TV3 Sustainability in Action, Teacher Resource
Sustainability in Action is a series of DVDs produced by TV3 with content for supporting materials developed by Team Solutions at the Faculty of Education, The University of Auckland. The resources are designed to support teachers engaged with the media studies and education for sustainability curriculum and are linked to NCEA achievement standards.
http://www.tv3.co.nz/sustainability
13-07-2009

Te Tere Auraki – Māori student success in English-medium
Explore the new redesigned Te Tere Auraki website. Te Tere Auraki is a professional development strategy focusing on supporting schools to improve Māori students’ success in English-medium schools.
http://tetereauraki.tki.org.nz/
29-06-2009

Intellectual Property (IP): Respecting Creativity Student Competition 2009
Encourage your year 8–13 students to enter this free competition to raise awareness of IP and copyright issues. Students may present design work for a poster, magazine spread, advertisement, billboard, or clothing. Senior students work may also be assessed for visual arts design achievement and/or unit standards. There are great prizes for students and teachers. Visit the website for more details.
http://www.lovemusic.co.nz/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&It emid=146
25-05-2009

Capital E for Children Arts OnTV (PDF 44KB)
Ask your students if they would like to submit digital media for inclusion in an OnTV online television show that reports on cultural and arts events in your region. Students can even appear live from their area during the broadcast.
http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/arts/pdfs/tki-blurb.pdf
22-04-2009

On Disk Video Library for Secondary Schools: The Arts Menu
Order educational arts DVDs online. The period of loan is up to four weeks and there is no cost to schools. Arts Pasifika, Social Dance, Dance and Composers are some of the new titles. Teachers’ booklets and units to complement some of the DVDs are also available online.
http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/education/OD-Art.php
16-03-2009

Software for Learning
Enhance your learning environment with software that is appropriate and has been recommended by other New Zealand teachers. Browse through the brand new, very friendly Software for Learning collection, and check out all the new software and related resources there now. Software includes social software, freeware and non-freeware. Click here for Software for Learning resources specific to The Arts.
http://softwareforlearning.tki.org.nz/
26-11-2008

Student Gallery: Ministry of Education Online Gallery
Ask your students if they would like their artworks displayed online and at the Ministry’s head office. Download a student consent form from this website. All artworks are returned after a 2–3 week period of display.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/arts/student_gallery/moe_exhibition/index_e.php
10-11-2008

NZ ON SCREEN
Discover the best of New Zealand television and film online for free. This website has over 250 titles to choose from and provides biographies of the people in front of and behind the camera. You will need to update your version of Adobe Flash Player in order to view the videos.
http://nzonscreen.com/
04-11-2008

Senior Secondary Drama Units: Developing Key Competencies
Browse these three senior secondary drama units that have been specifically designed to support beginning teachers and teachers who are new to New Zealand. The units are written for Levels 6─8 of the New Zealand Curriculum, NCEA levels 1, 2 and 3, each with a focus on a specific key competency.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/drama_units/

Arts unit templates and examples
Register to create an arts unit or browse example units, using the Interactive Unit Planner or the NCEA Interactive Unit Planner. To register simply enter your email address, a password, and then wait for confirmation.

Dance units
Make use of these units that support the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum. Dancing the Key Competencies contains ten units of work for levels 1–5, each addressing a key competency. Dancing Towards Respect focuses on levels 6–8 and includes NCEA Achievement Standards.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/dance_units.php

Drama units
Make use of these units that support the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum. Learning in Action contains eight units of work for levels 1–4. Iconic Drama are exemplars of units for year 9–10.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/drama_units.php

Te Papa Tongarewa: Collections Online
Use Te Papa’s Collections Online to access the cultural history collections (including art, history, Pacific cultures, photography, and taonga Māori) and the natural environment collections.
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx

Visual Culture and the New Zealand Curriculum
Utilise these units of work that show how the Digistore, Te Pātaka Matihiko digital resources, made available to schools by the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, can be used in visual arts teaching and learning. These units deal with elements of identity.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/visual_culture/

Dancing Treasures: Icons from Te Papa
Utilise these units of work that show how the Digistore, Te Pātaka Matihiko digital resources, made available to schools by the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, can be used. In these units, students explore personal and Te Papa treasures through dance.
http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resources/units/dancing_treasures/

Teacher Talk
Teacher Talk is an area on TKI that enables teachers and educators to ask questions, share knowledge, and offer insights on a range of subjects on a public forum. Please feel free to begin a new topic, or contribute to an existing conversation thread. You can locate Teacher Talk from the Interact page of TKI. Register here first.

Telephone Tutorial
The TKI Team would be happy to provide a tour of the website, via the telephone, at your school staff meetings or planning sessions. Contact us at tutorials@tki.org.nz if you would like to explore this option.