Pukekohe High School
Year 10 Social Studies
Course Description
Head of Faculty - Kaihautuu: Mr B. Silk.
This course provides students with links to the world around them and how they fit into it. This will cover our place in Aotearoa New Zealand and how past events have influenced the country. This will also link to local points of history.
A variety of topics will be covered throughout the year.
Close to home, we look at the Treaty of Waitangi and the impacts of it still today. We also explore the Pacific, looking at the Dawn Raids and climate change in the Pacific.
Students will develop an understanding of how our government works while exploring other countries' different forms of government- such as North Korea.
There is a look at what human rights are. By looking at case studies, both within New Zealand and around the world, students will gain confidence in understanding rights and responsibilities as citizens of the world.
Students will also gain skills in the business area to be able to plan for, and carry out, their own small business, selling creating and producing products or services for a school-based market day.
Students will also look at the causes and effects of extreme natural events. They will look at some case studies, and will gain knowledge and skills in knowing how to react to situations that may happen.
Social Studies is a subject that provides many skills in literacy (writing and interpreting information) and numeracy (collecting, interpreting data and graphing).
It provides a range of knowledge that links to senior Social Science Subject area.
Course Overview
Term 1
Human Rights - exploring case studies from around the world, past and present, of how people's human rights have been violated.
Government - exploring Aotearoa New Zealand's system of government and comparing it to other countries.
Term 2
Government - exploring New Zealand's system of government and comparing it with other countries.
Treaty of Waitangi - exploring the Treaty of Waitangi and the impacts it has had in the past and present.
Term 3
Pacific - exploring the Dawn Raids and Polynesian Panthers, along with climate change in the Pacific.
Becoming an Entrepreneur - exploring how to be an 'entrepreneur', creating your own small business and selling your groups products for a within-school market day.
Term 4
Extreme Natural Events - exploring extreme natural events in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
2B5 exercise book, digital device - laptop preferred
Pathway
Assessment Information
A range of methods of assessment are used and in many cases students are able to chose the way that they would like to present their knowledge and skills for marking.
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