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Welcome to Social Sciences Online

Social Sciences Online is the website for teachers of social sciences in New Zealand.

'The social sciences learning area is about how societies work and how people can participate as critical, active, informed, and responsible citizens.' (The New Zealand Curriculum, 2007)

Curriculum

The national curriculum includes:

Find out more about the social sciences in the curriculum here.

Social studies

Years 110

Social studies is the foundation, integrating subject for this learning area at levels 1–5.

In this section:

Senior secondary

Years 1113

At levels 6–8, social sciences includes (but is not limited to):

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The New Zealand Curriculum

Te Marautanga o Aotearoa

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The Building Conceptual Understandings in the Social Sciences (BCUSS) series includes:


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