Unit 2
Fifth Grade Focus: Creating a New Nation & Economics
TASS: Flexibility, Collaboration, Synthesis, Metacognition, Elaboration, Intellectual Risk Taking,
Evaluation, Effort/Motivation/Persistence
What question do we ask ourselves?
1. Why are we learning about this?
2. How does a country’s economy contribute to its
growth?
3. How can the Constitution be changed?
4.
What words do we need to know to master
the objectives?
economics
Articles of Confederation
human resources
The Bill of Rights
natural resources
capital resources
What do we need to know and be able to do?
1. Explain how limited resources and unlimited economic wants
cause people to choose certain goods and services and give
up others.
2. Explain how producers combine resources to provide goods
and services to satisfy economic wants.
3. Describe how the United States Constitution can be changed
through amendments.
4. Analyze problems, identify resources, prepare solutions and
prove justification.
Constitution
Currency
amendments
How will we master the objectives?
1. By examining how economics help a country change.
2. By analyzing how the Constitution can be changed
through amendments.
3. By analyzing how producers combine resources to
provide goods and services to satisfy economic wants.
4. By examining how taxes finance government
operations and provide public goods and services.
What resources will we use?
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Handouts
Comprehension questions
Maps
History Alive! America’s Past
Websites
Videos