Year 9 Social Studies

This course develops essential skills needed to be an active citizen in New Zealand and to succeed in NCEA. Skills include reading and writing, research and communication, critical thinking, group work and leadership.  Students will develop these skills by learning about the following themes of work:

• Industry and Economy – local and New Zealand industries and their relationship to global markets.
  
  
• Transforming the Land – the shaping of the modern New Zealand environment and peoples' responses to this.
  
  
• Power and Protest – citizens' rights in different types of governments including democracy and dictatorship.
  
  
• Migration - exploring why people move either by choice or without choice, and the consequences of this.