Curriculum+Level+7+Social+studies

= = Curriculum levels

=Level Seven Social Sciences= Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:

Social Studies
• Understand how communities and nations meet their responsibilities and exercise their rights in local, national, and global contexts. • Understand how conflicts can arise from different cultural beliefs and ideas and be addressed in different ways with differing outcomes.

History
• Understand how historical forces and movements have infl uenced the causes and consequences of events of significance to New Zealanders. • Understand how people’s interpretations of events that are of signifi cance to New Zealanders differ.

Geography
• Understand how the processes that shape natural and cultural environments change over time, vary in scale and from place to place, and create spatial patterns. • Understand how people’s perceptions of and interactions with natural and cultural environments differ and have changed over time.

Economics
• Understand how economic concepts and models provide a means of analysing contemporary New Zealand issues. • Understand how government policies and contemporary issues interact.