Social Studies Curriculum

7th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will evaluate rules and laws at municipal, state, and federal levels in order to examine their societal impact and take action within our community.

Outcomes and Components:

SS.7.3 Students will analyze economic reasons for exploration and expansion westward by evaluating components of financial literacy.

Pacing  

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Component Code

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Standard(s)

  SS.7.3.1 Explain how changes in supply and demand cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies. SS.6-8.EC.2.MC
  SS.7.3.2 Explain roles and relationships between savers, borrowers, interest, time, and purposes for saving.

SS.6-8.EC.FL.2.LC 

M.7.5

  SS.7.3.3 Evaluate the influences of long term human induced environmental change on spatial patterns of conflict and cooperation.

SS.6-8.G.3.MC

LA.7.7

Academic Vocabulary: explain, evaluate

Content Vocabulary: manifest destiny, supply, demand, treaties, international agreements, scarcity, surplus, shortage, connotation, denotation