This unit examines the Social Science learning area in early childhood education. Students use contemporary curriculum documents to develop skills in supporting the development of conceptual understandings, process skills and values in young children (0-8), with the intention of promoting active and informed citizenship. In particular, students will explore pedagogical frameworks and examine a range of differentiated teaching, learning and assessment strategies appropriate to inquiry-based learning in early childhood education. Students also have the opportunity to evaluate teaching resources that support the development of the mutli-literacies of social science inquiry.