Students will begin this unit of study by doing personal reflections on …
Students will begin this unit of study by doing personal reflections on events in their personal life that have changed the way they live. Once students reflect on events they will be introduced to the Great Depression using Nearpod. Students will then begin to read and study about the Great Depression using a variety of texts. They will then take the knowledge they have learned to complete two activities. Students will work with a partner to create a Google Slide Digital Scrapbook that they will share out and be graded on using a rubric provided. The next activity will require students to create a digital comic strip that will summarize the main idea and viewpoints in an excerpt from “Bud, Not Buddy”.
The last core strand of social studies is the one we will …
The last core strand of social studies is the one we will be focusing on mostly this year...history! Your studies will be focusing mainly on American history. It is often said that history is written by the victors. Historians must look at everything they can to come to conclusions about what happened in the past. Historians become writers, teachers, public speakers, and public servants in many ways. The following section explains the work of historians and details about their studies.
In previous grades you’ve learned a little about economics and that economics …
In previous grades you’ve learned a little about economics and that economics deals with choices. We all make choices every day. We make choices about what to buy. We make choices about whether to save or spend money. You will learn in this chapter that economics is about more than just choices. Economics is the study of how individuals and societies use resources to produce goods and services. It is about competition and prices and trade. As you learn you will be working as an economist, someone who studies economics.
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