Year 10 Social Sciences

Course Description:

In Social Science, students explore how societies work and how they themselves can participate and act as critical, informed, and responsible citizens. 

The Social Science programme is planned so that students gain knowledge and understanding about events, places, and people of significance to New Zealand and beyond, in the past and the present. 

Students explore the unique and bi-cultural nature of New Zealand that derives from the Treaty of Waitangi. They learn about people, places, cultures, histories, and the economic world. Throughout the year, students develop inquiry skills to select and process information about environmental, social, economic, and political issues.

 Course Overview:

Social Studies investigate people, heritage, culture, environment and economic activities of NZ and the world.  It aims to help students become informed, confident, and responsible about issues and decisions facing people and their future.

Students develop inquiry skills to collect and process information about people and communities.  Students explore their own and other people’s viewpoints and make decisions about which choices might be best.

Themes include:

• The Economic World
• Sustainability
• Human Rights and Global Treaties
• Inquiry Learning