An Interdisciplinary Approach in the Art Education Basic Sixth impact on Creative Thinking & Motivation Among it's Curriculum and Graders Students in Salfit District / Case Study

This study investigates the effect of An Interdisciplinary Approach on sixth graders students in studying the Art & Craft in the schools of Salfit. The researcher designed a unit within interdisciplinary Approach. This unit was carried out on a sample of sixth grade students; studied the Flying unit using an interdisciplinary Approach, while the other sample taught by traditional method (without using an interdisciplinary Approach). The researcher also used Torrance Test of Creative Thinking TTCT as achievement test, which was given after the students had studied the unit of Flying, and a measure of motivation to investigate the effect of the program supported with stories on the students' achievements and motivations. Then the researcher applied the experimental Methodology as it was applied in the first semester of the scholastic year 2015-2016. To analyze the results, the researcher used One Way ANCOVA, in order to examine the differences between the students' means of achievements and motivation. The study concluded the following results: - There is a statistically significant difference at (α=0.05) between the means of achievement of the experimental and control groups due to the teaching method (traditional, using an interdisciplinary Approach) in favor of experimental group. - There is a statistically significant difference at (α=0.05) between the means of motivation toward learning Flying of the experimental and control groups due to the teaching method (traditional, using an interdisciplinary Approach) in favor of experimental group. Also, the researcher recommended to train teachers in using the method of teaching by interdisciplinary Approach as this method requires employing different skills to design &use. In addition, the researcher recommended to made more research about this method of teaching in Arabic language.