Year+9+and+10+Social+Studies

Most schools in this region are basing their programmes on Level 5 Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to: compare with another system. places. lives.
 * [|NZC]**
 * Level 5**
 * Understand how systems of government in New Zealand operate and affect people's lives, and how they
 * Understand how the Treaty of Waitangi is responded to differently by people in different times and
 * Understand how cultural interaction impacts on cultures and societies.
 * Understand that people move between places and how this has consequences for the people and the places.
 * Understand how economic decisions impact on people, communities, and nations.
 * Understand how people's management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability.
 * Understand how the ideas and actions of people in the past have had a significant impact on people's
 * Understand how people seek and have sought economic growth through business, enterprise, and innovation.
 * Understand how people define and seek human rights.

Four resources in the Building conceptual understanding in the social sciences series. Wellington: Learning Media.
 * Approaches to social inquiry
 * Belonging and participating in society
 * Approaches to building conceptual understandings
 * Being Part of Global Communities
 * In 2012 there will be a 5th resource in thei series tiltled "Financial Literacy" using a social inquiry approach. Look out for this.

The New Zealand Curriculum exemplars: Social Studies. Wellington; Learning Media and the Learning Centre Trust of New Zealand.Online versions www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/socialstudies/index_e.php