Mock Society
Grade Level: 6th Grade
Subject: Social Studies
Time Frame: 8 weeks (April/May)
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Big Understandings
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- investigate the role of consumers within the Western Hemisphere
- investigate how societies create different economic systems in the Western Hemisphere
- analyze the relationship of different nations in the Western Hemisphere
- systems of government in the Western Hemisphere
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Essential Questions
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- how did different societies in the Western Hemisphere define the roles of buyers and sellers in the various markets?
- what role did the distribution of resources play in personal financial decisions?
- what role has competition and wages played in different cultures?
- why is it important to analyze the various levels of a culture before understanding how individuals in that culture would make financial decisions?
- how do different systems address the production of goods?
- how are scarce resources distributed in different types of economic systems?
- how do different economies control the means of production and distribution of goods and services?
- what does it mean to live in an interconnected world?
- how can you be a productive member of the global community and a contributing citizen of the United States?
- why are there greater challenges and opportunities when multiple groups interact?
- why do national and global viewpoints sometimes differ?
- how do you define good government?
- what evidence can you find of effective and ineffective governments in the past and the present?
- what would a government look like if you created it?
- what are the consequences if a government does not provide for the common good?
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By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
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- explain the roles of buyers and sellers in product, labor, and financial markets
- describe the role of competition in the determination of prices and wages in a market economy
- explore how consumer spending decisions and demand impact market economies
- analyze how external factors might influence spending decisions for different individuals
- describe how economic systems in the Western Hemisphere (such as traditional, command, market, and mixed) allocate resources
- use economic reasoning to explain how specialization of production can result in more interdependence (international trade patterns)
- discuss advantages and disadvantages of living in an interconnected world
- examine changes and connections in ideas about citizenship in different times and places in the Western Hemisphere
- describe how groups and individuals influence governments within the Western Hemisphere
- explain how political ideas and significant people have interacted, are interconnected, and have influenced nations
- analyze political issues from national and global perspectives over time
- identify historical examples illustrating how people from diverse backgrounds in the Western Hemisphere perceived and reacted to various global issues
- describe different systems of government in the Western Hemisphere
- identify how different systems of government relate to their citizens in the Western Hemisphere
- compare the economic components of the different systems of government in the Western Hemisphere
- compare the various governments and citizens' liberties in the Western Hemisphere
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Topics:
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- design, run, and sustain a classroom mini-city while accumulating money
- decide the government and economics of the city.
- plan the geographical and political structure, laws,
- elect officials,
- appoint individuals to city positions such as postmaster, bank CEO, police chief, etc.
- perform daily responsibilities such as writing checks, paying rent, balancing a checkbook register, keeping track of expenses and income, insurance payments when there is a natural disaster,
- keeping weekly profit and loss statements.
- learn about current government processes- adding amendments and passing bills in legislature.
- all the types of economic systems including market, mixed, command, and traditional
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Standards
SS.6.3.1
SS.6..3.2
SS.6.4.1
SS.6.4.2