SST-08.E.01.1

  8th Grade (SST) Economics Domain:
   Benchmark for Standard: SST-08.E.01 Analyze the concept of scarcity when making economic decisions.

SST-08.E.01.1 Analyze the basic concepts of economic thinking.

Guiding Topics: Needs and wants, supply and demand, opportunity cost and tradeoffs, scarcity and choice, cost-benefit analysis, production possibilities, interpret visual representations of data (e.g., bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts)


Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

  • I can

Reasoning Targets

  • I can

Skills (Performance) Targets

  • I can

Product Targets

  • I can

Proficiency Scale

The Student can ...
1 Beginning
... with help, demonstrate a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
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2 Developing
... demonstrate no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
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3 Proficient
“The Standard.”
... demonstrate no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
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4 Advanced
... demonstrate in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
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Resources

Vocabulary

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Websites

  • Title of website with a URL to open in a new window

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