From the Curriculum

For our term 4 inquiry about the best kind of NE classroom I can find these curriculum 'links'

Social Sciences- Place and Environment - Students learn about how people perceive,represent, interpret and interact with places and their environment.

The Arts- Visual Arts - Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation and imagination. By this I mean things like the students making models, taking photos, drawing etc as a way of sharing their thinking.

English - Listening, reading , viewing - for finding ideas etc-
-Speaking, writing and Presenting- as ways to share information, ideas, thinking

ICT - use of tools to be part of all of the above and the KC's

Key Competencies now there's an interesting area for planning.

Thinking - "Thinking is about using creative, critical and megacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas. Students who are competent thinkers and problem solvers actively seek, use and create knowledge. Do I want this for my students from this unit -YES

Using language, symbols and texts - YES

Managing Self - a can do attitude, self assessing YES

Relating to Others- By working effectively together, they can come up with new approaches, ideas and ways of thinking. YES

Participating and Contributing - its about being actively involved in communities. Communities included whanau, school , other learning places (eg Preschools) - locally, nationally and globally. YES