Students will identify basic economic concepts.
Example Indicators:
- Recognize the difference between basic needs and wants, e.g. food, clothing, shelter, and affection.
- Explain differences between buyers and sellers/goods and services.
Social Studies 1.8
Students will recognize good citizenship and its importance.
Example Indicators:
- Identifying how choices and actions affect themselves and others, e.g., making class rules, participating in classroom chores.
Social Studies 4.8
Students will describe characteristics of a market economic system and the interactions of consumers and producers.
Example Indicators:
- Describe the concepts of scarcity, choice, and the use of limited natural, capital, and human resources in an economic system.
- Explain the specialization and interdependence of producers and consumers involved in producing goods and services.
- Demonstrate how markets and prices help consumers buy and producers supply products and services in an economic system.
- Identify how changing modes of transportation and communication by entrepreneurs have changed the economic system of the United States and Nebraska.
- Explain the purpose of taxes and their use and collection in an economic system.
