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Strand: Natural and Social Systems
SU1 Rights And Responsibilities, Rules And Laws
SU2 Motivating Reasons To Elect Student Representatives
SU3 Choosing A Political System To Elect Student Representatives
SU4 How Is Leadership Of Groups Acquired And Exercised?
Strand: Culture
SU5 Cultural Diversity And Movement
SU6 Keeping Our Culture And Heritage
SU7 Changing The Lives Of Others
SU8 Different Experiences For Different People
Strand: Place and Space
SU9 People Interacting With The Environment
SU10 Learning About Other Places
SU11 The Value Of Resources
SU12 Significance Of Particular Places And Environments For People
Strand: Resources
SU13 Responding To Challenge And Crisis Of Redundancy
SU14 Redundancy Forces Family To Leave School And Community
SU15 Factors That Influence People's Access To Resources, Goods And Services
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Strand: Natural and Social Systems
Social Unit 1: Rights And Responsibilities, Rules And Laws
Rules and laws are essential if society is to run in an orderly manner. This Unit introduces rights and responsibilities local skateboarders have, and how they can stay within the law while still exercising their rights.
Social Unit 2: Motivating reasons to elect student representatives
Many reasons exist to explain how and why people seek to gain and maintain social justice and human rights. This Unit uses the issue of suspension of a friend for the colour of their hair as a motivating issue to seek change and discuss alternatives.
Social Unit 3: Choosing a political system to elect student representatives
Throughout the world there are many different systems of government which affect people's lives. This Unit introduces issues surrounding the choosing of a system for electing student representatives onto their local club committee.
Social Unit 4: How is leadership of groups acquired and exercised?
Students perform characters who are discussing potential candidates and their leadership styles in the school election. This Unit introduces leadership styles and reasons why people might be seen as leaders.
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Strand: Culture
Social Unit 5: Introducing Cultural Diversity And Movement Through Food
We all learn from interacting with other cultures. This Unit is based in a food hall to illustrate the diversity and choice cultural movement brings to society. The wide variety of food available in a country is just one of the examples of cultural movement.
Social Unit 6: Retaining One’s Own Culture And Heritage
Tradition and heritage are important values for many people. Just how important they are is illustrated in this Unit by way of a description of an annual family celebration and the efforts that are made to hold the annual celebration and to record their family history.
Social Unit 7: Changing The Lives Of Others
Often the actions of others, positive or negative, have a lasting effect on society. This Unit looks at how one individual's actions had such a lasting effect on another individual's life.
Social Unit 8: Different People’s Reactions At A Funeral
In this Unit learners discuss the funeral of a close friend and the different memories they have of her. The funeral is used to illustrate how events can affect people differently.
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Strand: Place and Space
Social Unit 9: People Interacting With The Environment
Students can gain an understanding of history by studying man's past interactions with the environment. This Unit uses a museum curator and other museum voices to explain some of these past interactions and the effect they have had on the environment.
Social Unit 10: Learning About Other Places
How do we find out about other places and the environment? One way is to go and live there. In this Unit friends at school discuss a pending exchange trip one of them is about to undertake. This leads to more discussion about how people find out about other places.
Social Unit 11: People’s Different Reactions To Land
Resources can be used and viewed quite differently from individual to individual. This Unit uses the resource of land to illustrate how differently people can react to a resource and its importance.
Social Unit 12: Significance of particular places and environments for people
Particular places and environments are significant to people for many differing reasons. This Unit uses the potential sale of a piece of land to introduce people's differing attitudes and view points.
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Strand: Resources
Social Unit 13: Responding To The Challenge And Crisis of Redundancy
People respond differently to challenges and crisis. This Unit looks at the effects sudden redundancy has on a family and how they cope. For some people, adversity often has positive consequences later.
Social Unit 14: Redundancy forces family to leave school and community
People regularly move between places with consequences for the people and community left behind. This Unit focuses on the effects of redundancy for the people involved, their friends and the community.
Social Unit 15: Factors influencing people's access to resources, goods and services
Many differing factors influence people's access to resources, goods and services. This Unit looks at different reasons preventing some within a group of friends from attending an international sports game.
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