Curriculum+Level+8+Social+studies

=Curriculum levels= = = =Level Eight Social Sciences= Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:

Social Studies
• Understand how policy changes are influenced by and impact on the rights, roles, and responsibilities of individuals and communities. • Understand how ideologies shape society and that individuals and groups respond differently to these beliefs.

History
• Understand that the causes, consequences, and explanations of historical events that are of significance to New Zealanders are complex and how and why they are contested. • Understand how trends over time reflect social, economic, and political forces.

Geography
• Understand how interacting processes shape natural and cultural environments, occur at different rates and on different scales, and create spatial variations. • Understand how people’s diverse values and perceptions influence the environmental, social, and economic decisions and responses that they make.

Economics
• Understand that wellfunctioning markets are efficient but that governments may need to intervene where markets fail to deliver efficient or equitable outcomes. • Understand how the nature and size of the New Zealand economy is influenced by interacting internal and external factors.