Standards
Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry
with them years beyond the instruction received this year.
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People and nations
interact politically.
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Exchange of goods
and services leads to trade and interdependence.
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Decisions must be
made about the use of scarce resources.
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Resources are used
to produce and distribute good and services.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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How do people and
communities help each other?
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Why do people in a
community depend on each other?
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Why must we make
choices about scarce resources?
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How are goods made
and delivered?
Standards and Benchmarks
Civics 3: Students know the political relationship of the United States and its
citizens to other nations and to world affairs.
Benchmark A: Students know how and why governments and nongovernmental
agencies around the world interact politically.
Economics 1:Students understand that because of the condition of scarcity, decisions
must be made about the use of resources.
Benchmark A: Students know that economic choices are made because resources
are scarce and that the act of making economic choices imposes opportunity
costs (e.g., using land for farming or ranching, forests for recreation or
lumber).
Economics 2: Students understand how different economic systems impact decisions about
the use of resources and the production and distribution of goods and
services.
Benchmark A: Students understand that different economic systems employ
different means to produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services.
Economics 3: Students understand the results of trade, exchange, and interdependence
among individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies.
Benchmark A: Students understand that the exchange of good and services
creates economic interdependence and change.
Elementary Social Studies D-11 Indicators, K-5
History
1.Chronological Organization: Organize events and people in history
chronologically (time lines, lists, sequencing).
2.Historical Inquiry: Use primary and secondary sources to ask and answer
questions (who, what, when, why, how) about the past and present, and to
determine cause and effect relationships.
3.Diverse and Changing Societies: Describe cultural similarities,
differences and interactions among various groups in both past and present.
4.Science, Technology, and Economic Activity: Identify and explain changes
in technology (scientific achievements and inventions) and how they changed
history.
5.Political Institutions and Theories: Describe how and why rules and laws
(government) have been made and enforced.
6.Religious and Philosophical Ideas: Identify beliefs of individuals and
groups and their effects on societies.
Geography
1.Use of Geographic Tools: Use tools (maps, globes, photographs, graphs,
charts, and databases) to locate information about places.
2.and 3.Physical Processes/Physical and Human Characteristics of Places and
Regions: Identify and describe human and physical characteristics of places,
and use them to define regions.
4.Patterns of Human Population: Explain why people migrate and settle in
different places.
5.Human and Physical Systems: Describe ways humans change the physical
environment and how the physical environment affects human activity.
6.Apply Knowledge of Geography: Describe how and why places change over
time.
Civics
1.Purpose of Government and US Constitutional Principles: Explain how people
get, use, and misuse power and authority.
2.Structure and Function of Government: Explain how governments are
organized at the local, state, and national levels and the responsibilities
of each.
3.Political Relationships: Describe ways that peoples and nations interact.
4.Citizenship Participation: Explain the rights, roles, and responsibilities
of students as citizens in the classroom, school, community, state, and
nation.
Economics
1.Scarcity and Decision-Making: Identify scarce natural, human, and capital
resources and evaluate decisions about how they are used.
2.Resources and Production of Goods and Services: Explain how, why, and for
whom goods and services are produced.
3.Trade, Exchange, and Economic Interdependence: Identify ways goods and
services are distributed through trade, exchange and interdependence. |
