The Arts and Other Essential Learning Areas
Students' learning across the curriculum can be significantly enhanced through learning experiences that make appropriate and meaningful links between the arts and other learning areas. Such links will tend to be made more frequently in primary and intermediate school classrooms, where teachers often incorporate one or more arts disciplines in units based on topics, themes, or student inquiries. Careful planning is necessary to ensure that programmes allow students to meet the achievement objectives of particular arts disciplines as well as those of other essential learning areas.
The following section provides examples of ways in which students' learning in the disciplines of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum can be linked to learning in other essential learning areas.
