Curriculum+Level+5+Social+studies

=Curriculum levels= = = =Level Five Social Sciences=

Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to: • Understand how systems of government in New Zealand operate and affect people’s lives, and how they compare with another system. • Understand how the Treaty of Waitangi is responded to differently by people in different times and places. • 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 signifi cant impact on people’s lives. • Understand how people seek and have sought economic growth through business, enterprise, and innovation. • Understand how people defi ne and seek human rights.