(A) This Areas Must Be Developed Articulated Between Them and with Disciplinary Areas

1st CYCLE

(a) This areas must be developed articulated between them and with disciplinary areas, included a work component with communication and technology information (TIC).
(b) Facultative activities, including a possible initiation to a foreign language.

The work developed by the students has to have experimental activities and research activities properly adequate to the nature of the different areas or disciplines, namely science teaching.

2nd CYCLE

Curriculum components / Weekly number of hours (x 90 min.)
5th Year / 6th Year / Total Cycle
Education for citizenship / Disciplinary curricular areas:
Languages and social studies:
Portuguese;
Foreignlanguage;
History and Geography of Portugal / 5
/ 5,5
/ 10,5
Maths and Sciences
Math;
Sciences of Nature / 3,5 / 3,5 / 7
Artisticeducationand Technology
Visual Education e Technology;
MusicalEducation. / 3 / 3 / 6
PhysicalEducation / 1,5 / 1,5 / 3
Personal and social formation / Moral and religious education / 0,5 / 0,5 / 1
Non disciplinary curricular areas: (a)
Project area;
Supervised study;
Civic formation. / 3
/ 2,5
/ 5
Total / 16 (16,5) / 16 (16,5) / 32 (33)
School decision / 0,5 / 0,5 / 1
Global Maximum / 17 / 17 / 34
Enrichment activities (b)

(a) This areas must be developed articulated between them and with disciplinary areas, included a work component with communication and technology information (TIC).
(b) Facultative activities.

The work developed by the students has to have experimental activities and research activities properly adequated to the nature of the different areas or disciplines, namely science teaching.

3rd CYCLE

curriculum Components / Weekly number of hours
(x 90 min.)
7th Year / 8th Year / 9th Year / Total Cycle
Education for citizenship / Curricular disciplinar areas:
Portuguese
ForeignLanguage
FL1;
FL2. / 2
3 / 2
2,5 / 2
2,5 / 6
8
Humanand social sciences:
History
Geography / 2 / 2,5 / 2,5 / 7
Maths / 2 / 2 / 2 / 6
Physicaland Natural Sciences
Natural sciences;
Physics and Chemistry. / 2 / 2 / 2,5 / 6,5
Artisticeducation
Visual education;
Other discipline (school offer)(a) / (b) 1 / (b) 1 /
(c) 1,5 /
5,5
Technologicaleducation / (b) 1 / (b) 1
Physicaleducation / 1,5 / 1,5 / 1,5 / 4,5
Introductionto TIC / 1 / 1
Personal and social formation / Moral and religious education / 0,5 / 0,5 / 0,5 / 1,5
Non disciplinary curricular areas: (f)
Project area;
Supervised study;
Civic formation. / 2,5 / 2,5 / 2 / 7
Total / 17(17,5) / 17(17,5) / 17,5(18) / 51,5 (53)
School’s decision / 0,5 / 0,5 / 1
Global Maximum / 18 / 18 / 18 / 54
Enrichment activities (g)

(a) The school can offer other discipline of the ArtisticEducation ( Musical Education, Teather, Dance, etc.) area if they have the teacher.
(b) In 7th and 8th years, the students have:

i) VisualEducation along the year;

ii) in an equitative organization with Tecnological Education, along each year, another discipline of the Artistic Education area. In case school thus not offer another discipline TecnologicalEducation will have an equal number of weekly hours than Visual Education.

(c) In 9th year, students will only chose one of the disciplines that they have attended in 7th and 8th years.

(d) This areas must be developed articulated between them and with disciplinary areas, included a work component with communication and technology information (TIC).
(e) Facultative activities.

The work developed by the students has to have experimental activities and research activities properly adequated to the nature of the different areas or disciplines, namely science teaching.