SS084.3
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Social Studies Standard 4.3 - Level 8
- Students understand the historical development and know the characteristics of various economic systems.
Standard in Kid Friendly Language
Standard Unwrapped
KNOW
- The economic development of the United States
ABLE TO DO
- Explain early colonization and the three primary countries that migrated to the Americas and identify factors that influenced location and distribution of economic activities.
- Explain why and how countries trade goods and services.
- Spain - Search for gold and jewels - settled in Latin America
- France - Search for furs - settled in Canada and northern part of North America
- Great Britain - Growth of Tobacco/Slave trade - settled on Atlantic coast of North America
- 1776 to 1865: Discuss the role the U.S. played in trade goods and items around the world.
- 1860-1865: Discuss the importance of cotton to the U.S. economy both for the North and for the South. Explain how each side could not live without it economically.
Instructional Strategies
- Illustrate the important economic activities during Colonial times on a poster.
- Explain in writing how each country had its own economic "pull" to America and what that economic activity did for that country.
- Debate in a large classroom setting during a similation "Constitutional Convention" where each of the original 13 states debate the importance of factories, crops, and resources.
- Report to class the importance of cotton to the Northern and Southern economies during the pre-Civil War era and after.
Assessment Strategies
- Tests
- Quizes
- Oral Report in class
- Poster contest
- Classroom Debate
Resources
- Textbook
Projects and Activities
- Poster contest - "Come to the Colonies"
- Constitutional Convention debates
- Classroom Oral Report: The importance of cotton to the Northern and Southern states
