Globalization of the economy,
the explosion of population growth, technological changes
and international competition compels the student to
understand, both personally and globally, production,
distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The
student will examine and analyze economic concepts such as
basic needs versus wants, using versus saving money, and
policy-making versus decision-making .
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Kindergarten
I/D
Explain how basic human needs
of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.
I
Understand that people create
shelter according to both culture and environment.
I
Recognize how jobs are similar
and different from one community to another.
I/D
Explain why people have jobs.
I/D
Distinguish between needs and
wants.
I
Recognize that all jobs are
significant and realize that some jobs are interdependent.
TOP
First
Grade
I
Recognize that workers who
provide services earn money to meet needs and wants.
I
Recognize that people
advertise goods and services through different forms of
communication.
I
Identify how people exchange
goods and services.
D
Describe the requirements of
various jobs and the characteristics of a job well
performed.
I
Describe how specialized jobs
contribute to the production of goods and services.
D
Recognize that goods and
services are exchanged worldwide.
I
Give examples of industries
and the resources needed to operate industries.
D
Identify examples of goods and
services in the home, school, and community.
D
Distinguish the difference
between goods and services.
I
Differentiate between
consumers and producers.
TOP
Second Grade
I
Explain how work provides
income to purchase goods and services.
I
Describe how society depends
upon workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which
they contribute to the production and exchange of goods and
services.
The Goat In the Rug
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
reinventing the past
I
Give examples of the various
institutions that make up economic systems such as families,
workers, banks, labor unions, government agencies, small
businesses, and large corporations.
I
Recognize that communities
around the state and world are economically interdependent.
I
Know the major products of
Tennessee.
kidsport
Products of Tennessee
I
Categorize resources needed to
operate industries.
I
Understand the necessity of
importing resources needed for industry.
TOP
Third Grade
I
Identify ways of earning,
spending, and saving money.
Welcome to Econopolis
Practical Money Skills for Teachers
It's My Life: Making Money
Welcome to Econopolis
Practical Money Skills for Teachers
A
Classify needs and wants using
pictures of common items (i.e., food, cleaning products,
clothes, candy, makeup).
Needs and Wants
Unit Identify Personal Choices
Why Do I Want All This Stuff
Geography and Economics
Unlimited Wants Goods and Services
To Market, To Market
Unlimited Wants Goods and Services
A
Using a picture, differentiate
the difference between a producer and a consumer.
We Are Consumers and Producers
The Goat in the Rug
To Market, To Market
We Are Consumers and Producers
Economics and Literature
Clipping Coupons
Producer vs. Consumer Factory
Consumers
I
Analyze a simple budget that
allocates money for spending and saving.
Money Management
I
Identify examples of private
and public goods and services.
Communities – What They Provide for Us
Community Helper Are at Your Service
Good and Services Farm
I
Identify examples of scarcity.
Economic Spotter: Resources During World War II
Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage
Water Scarcity
I
Explain how supply and demand
affects the price of a good or service.
Supply & Demand
Goods & Services
Explain Market Price
Supply and Demand Land
Explain Market Price
Supply and Demand Land
A
Distinguish between imports
and exports.
Where Do Your Belongings Come From?
Commerce
The World on a String
A
Differentiate between money
and barter economies.
Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish & Poi
Economic
Spotter: Money in Revolutionary Times
Hawaiian Economics: Barter for Fish and Poi
I Have No Money, Will You Take Wampum?
Grade 4 Barter vs. Money Lesson
Bartering
Bartering for Goods
I
Recognize that the world has
different agricultural and industrial regions.
Agriculture in the Classroom
4-H Virtual Farm
A
Interpret a map showing
agricultural and industrial areas.
North Carolina: Agriculture Overview
Agricultural Map
Industrialization
I
Explain the characteristics
of a technologically expanding global economy.
Japanese Economy
I
Explain the impact of scarcity
on interdependence within and among regions.
Scarcity and Interdependence
I
Recognize that Tennessee and
the United States have different agricultural and industrial
regions.
4-H Virtual Farm
I
Be aware of how goods and
services are interchanged between communities at the local
and national levels.
Made in the U. S. A.
D
Trace the development of a
product from a natural resource to a finished product.
Where Does Our Breakfast Come From?
A Simple Chocolate Bar
A
Distinguish the difference
between a natural resource and finished product.
From the Land: A North Carolina Natural Resources Adventure
Natural Resources: Renewable & Nonrenewable
How Do People Make….
TOP
Fourth Grade
D
Identify the economic
motivations for European exploration and colonization.
Why Explorers Explored
A
Analyze the impact of European
exploration and colonization on the economy of Tennessee.
D
Describe how Native Americans
in Tennessee and the
Western Hemisphere met their
basic economic needs.
A
Interpret a chart of major
agricultural produce in
Tennessee (i.e., cotton,
tobacco, soy beans, rice, corn, cattle, wheat, swine, and
sheep).
Tennessee Agriculture
Agriculture Statistics
A History of Tennessee Agriculture: Elementary
I
Analyze how people in
different parts of the United States earned a living in the
past and do so in the present.
Making a Living in the New World
What Interests You? Career Choices
D
Explain the economic patterns
of various early Native American groups in Tennessee and the
Western Hemisphere .
A
Recognize the difference
between a barter system and a money system.
How Money Began
Bartering for Goods
How Money Began
Bartar VS Money: Jefferson County Schools PowerPoint
I
Identify major industries of
colonial America.
The Thirteen Colonies
Work in Colonial America
The 13 American Colonies
A
Identify major industries of
colonial America using a map of the original thirteen
colonies.
Work
Interactive Map: The 13 American Colonies
The 13 American Colonies: Characteristics of
the Colonies
I
Explain the economic patterns
of early European colonial governments and their
relationships with foreign governments.
M
Explain and demonstrate the
role of money in daily life.
KidsBank
Making Cents of Money
Basic
Need for Money
I
Describe the relationship of
price to supply and demand and how it affected early
American history.
Bartering for Goods
Beanie Baby Lesson Plan
I
Use economic concepts such as
supply, demand, and price to help explain events.
Economic Concepts
A
Recognize the concept of
supply and demand.
Econopolis
Serving Up Economics
Supply and Demand Lesson Plan
Beanie Baby Lesson Plan
REAL TREES 4 Kids: Supply and Demand
Supply and Demand
I
Identify the economic
motivations for European exploration and settlement in
Tennessee and the Western Hemisphere .
Why Explorers Explored the World
From Territory to Statehood
I
Examine the location,
distribution, and patterns of economic activities and
settlement in Tennessee.
Tennessee History
I
Evaluate
the effects of supply and demand on business, industry, and
agriculture, including the plantation system, in Tennessee
and various regions.
A
Read and
interpret a passage about a political or economic issue
which individuals may respond to with contrasting views
(i.e., state taxes, federal taxes, slavery, and Bill of
Rights).
TOP
Fifth Grade
D
Identify the economic change from agricultural to industrial
in late 19th and early 20th century.
D
Describe economic issues of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Learning Adventures in Citizenship
D
Explain how the American economy changed after World War II.
The Home Front
A
Differentiate between an
economic boom and bust.
Wall Street: The 1929 Crash
Good Times and Bad
The Economy of the US
Stock Market crash
A
Recognize the concept of
buying on credit.
The Mint. It Makes "Cents".
Managing money with WisePockets
Paying over time Activity
Paying over time
A
Recognize how Americans used credit/installment plans to
purchase consumer goods in the 1920's (i.e., vacuum
cleaners, washing machines, radios, and other home
appliances).
Education World
How to set up a budget
Great War and Jazz Age
A
Analyze how environmental changes and crisis affected the
economy across the nation in the 1930's (i.e., Dust Bowl,
Black Tuesday, Great Depression, and Hoovervilles).
Timeline of the Dustbowl
Quicktime movie of DustBowl
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Great Depression
Life in the Dust Bowl
D
Describe the development of the free enterprise system in
Tennessee and the United States.
A
Interpret economic issues as expressed in maps, tables,
diagrams, and charts (i.e., automobile sales, unemployment
rates, or airplane production).
Interpreting graphs
Atalpedia
D
Explain the impact of
American ideas about progress and equality of opportunity on
the economic development and growth of the United States.
D
Explain how supply and demand affects production and
consumption in the United States.
I
Give
examples of the benefits of the free enterprise system in
the United States.
I
Describe global economic interdependence after World War II.
I
Explain how the United
States and Tennessee meet some of their needs through the
purchase of domestic and international products domestically
and internationally in today’s global economy.
A
Differentiate between needs
and wants on a personal and national level.
Card Confusion
Needs and wants
I
Describe the impact of mass production, specialization, and
division of labor on the economic growth of the
United States and other regions
of the world.
D
Explain how people historically and presently earn their
living in different regions of the United States and
Tennessee.
D
Analyze how developments in transportation communication
influenced economic activities in Tennessee.
D
Explain how geographic factors influence the location of
economic activities in Tennessee.
D
Analyze the effects of immigration, migration, and limited
resources on the economic development and growth of
Tennessee and the United States.
TOP
Sixth Grade
D
Explain the relationship of supply and demand in early world
history.
A
Recognize
an example of a barter economy.
Global Economics
M
Describe the change from hunter/gatherer economies to
economies based on animal and plant domestication.
A
Identify disadvantages and advantages of nomadic and early
farming lifestyles (i.e., shelter, food supply, and,
domestication of plants and animals).
M
Investigate the impact of trade on the economies of early
civilizations.
D