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. | ||
Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
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 |