Social Studies Curriculum
8th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will critique significant global historical events in United States history in order to develop claims on societal issues. |
Outcomes and Components:
| SS.8.3 | Students will analyze how far-reaching financial decisions contributed to the economic events of the 1920’s. | ||
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
| SS.8.3.1 | Evaluate employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income and economic growth data and how they affect different groups in the 1920’s. | SS.6-8.EC.3.MC | |
| SS.8.3.2 | Explain how changes in supply and demand after World War I cause changes in prices and quantities of goods and services, labor, credit, and foreign currencies. | SS.6-8.EC.2.MC | |
| SS.8.3.3 | Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves. | SS.6-8.EC.3.LC | |
| SS.8.3.4 | Identify how people choose to buy goods and services while still maintaining a budget based on income, taxes, savings, and fixed and variable interest rates. | SS.6-8.EC.FL.1.MdC | |
| SS.8.3.5 | Describe the history of and the connection between credit, credit options, and interest and credit history. | SS.6-8.EC.FL.1.MC | |
| SS.8.3.6 | Analyze the relationship between skills, education, jobs, and income. | SS.6-8.EC.FL.1.LC | |
| SS.8.3.7 | Analyze the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in a market economy. | SS.6-8.EC.2.LC | |
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Academic Vocabulary: explain, identify, describe, evaluate, analyze |
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Content Vocabulary: geo literacy, far-reaching decisions, interest rate, inflation, mass production, assembly lines, installment buying, bull market, buying on margin |