SST-07.3.01

7th Grade SST Targeted Benchmarks
Standard 3: Economics

SST-07.3.01 Identify how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (e.g., economic systems; i.e., capitalism, socialism, communism).

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

  • I can describe how a product travels from producer to consumer.
  • I can explain why it is necessary to create industry on a large scale.
  • I can explain how production was increased due to the Industrial Revolution.

Reasoning Targets

  • I can compare and contrast major economic systems.
  • I can compare the history, government, and culture of early American civilizations.

Skills (Performance) Targets

  • I can evaluate the relationship and conflicts among the North American countries.
  • I can summarize how production was increased due to the Industrial Revolution.

Proficiency Scale

Score   Description Sample Activity
4.0 In addition to Score 3.0, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations. -
  3.5 In addition to Score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding the more complex content with partial success.
3.0

“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.

The student:

  • describes the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution.
  • explains how large scale industry changed Europe and America.
  • identifies the pros and cons of the Industrial Revolution.
  • When given an event in the Industrial Revolution, determine the effect.

  • Create a chart listing the pros and cons of the Industrial Revolution.

  • Summarize how large scale industry changed Europe and America, specifically relating to urbanization and social issues. 

  2.5 The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2.0

The student demonstrates 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) as the student:

  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology, such as: Industrial Revolution, invention, assembly line, capital, urbanization, etc.
  • identify various inventions (e.g. Spinning Jenny, telegraph, telephone, etc.)
  • identify various inventors (e.g. Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, James Watt).
  • When given a term, give the definition.

  • When given an invention, explain what it does

  • When given an inventor, describe their contributions to the Industrial Revolution.

  1.5 The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
1.0 With help, the student demonstrates 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). -
  0.5 With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).

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