Social Studies Curriculum

4th Grade

Course Purpose:

 Students will evaluate the origins of Illinois in order to determine its role in our nation.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.4.4 Students will analyze their economic and financial roles as citizens in Illinois and the United States.

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Component Code

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Standard(s)
  SS.4.4.1 Explain that income can be saved, spent on goods and services, or used to pay taxes. SS.4.EC.FL.4
  SS.4.4.2 Analyze how spending choices are influenced by price as well as many other factors (e.g. advertising, peer pressure, different options). SS.4.EC.FL.3
  SS.4.4.3 Gather and evaluate influential sources in order to distinguish fact and opinion and determine the credibility of the sources. SS.3-5.IS.4
  SS.4.4.4 Describe how goods and services are produced using human, natural, and capital resources (e.g. tools and machines). SS.4.EC.2
  SS.4.4.5 Explain how profits reward and influence sellers. SS.4.EC.1

Academic Vocabulary: Explain, analyze, evaluate, distinguish, determine, describe

Content Vocabulary: Goods, services, taxes, spending, price, advertising, peer pressure, influential sources, fact, opinion, human resource, natural resource, capital resource, profits