SOCIAL STUDIES: Learning how societies work, and how people can participate in them as active and responsible citizens. Studying the past present and future from places within and beyond New Zealand.
Year 9, Level 4: Achievement objectives
Students will gain knowledge, skills and experience to:
understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.
Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places and environment.
Understand that events have causes and effects.
Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions and impact on their communities
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.