Curriculum+Level+6+Social+studies

=Curriculum levels= = = =Level Six Social Sciences=

Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:

Social Studies
• Understand how individuals, groups, and institutions work to promote social justice and human rights. • Understand how cultures adapt and change and that this has consequences for society.

History
• Understand how the causes and consequences of past events that are of significance to New Zealanders shape the lives of people and society. • Understand how people’s perspectives on past events that are of significance to New Zealanders differ.

Geography
• Understand that natural and cultural environments have particular characteristics and how environments are shaped by processes that create spatial patterns. • Understand how people interact with natural and cultural environments and that this interaction has consequences.

Economics
• Understand how, as a result of scarcity, consumers, producers, and government make choices that affect New Zealand society. • Understand how the different sectors of the New Zealand economy are interdependent.