| Area |
Goal |
Standard |
Benchmark |
Benchmark Number |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by consumers. |
Analyze the impact of changes in non-price determinants (e.g., changes in consumer income, changes in tastes and preferences) on consumer demand. |
15.B.5a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by consumers. |
Analyze how inflation and interest rates affect consumer purchasing power. |
15.B.5b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by consumers. |
Analyze elasticity as it applies to supply and demand and consumer decisions. |
15.B.5c |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Describe how human, natural and capital resources are used to produce goods and services. |
15.C.1a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Identify limitations in resources that force producers to make choices about what to produce. |
15.C.1b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Describe the relationship between price and quantity supplied of a good or service. |
15.C.2a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Identify and explain examples of competition in the economy. |
15.C.2b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Describe how entrepreneurs take risks in order to produce goods or services. |
15.C.2c |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Identify and explain the effects of various incentives to produce a good or service. |
15.C.3 |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Analyze the impact of political actions and natural phenomena (e.g., wars, legislation, natural disaster) on producers and production decisions. |
15.C.4a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Explain the importance of research, development, invention, technology and entrepreneurship to the United States economy. |
15.C.4b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Explain how competition is maintained in the United States economy and how the level of competition varies in differing market structures (e.g., monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic and perfect competition). |
15.C.5a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Explain how changes in non-price determinants of supply (e.g., number of producers) affect producer decisions. |
15.C.5b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand that scarcity necessitates choices by producers. |
Explain how government intervention with market prices can cause shortages or surpluses of a good or service (e.g., minimum wage policies, rent freezes, farm subsidies). |
15.C.5c |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Demonstrate the benefits of simple voluntary exchanges. |
15.D.1a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Know that barter is a type of exchange and that money makes exchange easier. |
15.D.1b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Explain why people and countries voluntarily exchange goods and services. |
15.D.2a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Dscribe the relationships among specialization, division of labor, productivity of workers and interdependence among producers and consumers. |
15.D.2b |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Explain the effects of increasing and declining imports and exports to an individual and to the nation’s economy as a whole. |
15.D.3a |
| SOCIAL SCIENCE |
Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States. |
Understand trade as an exchange of goods or services. |
Explain how comparative advantage forms the basis for specialization and trade among nations. |
15.D.3b |
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