Teacher: Jennifer Perry-Daly (303)982-8587 email: [email protected]
District Established Goals (Grade Level Expectations):
Overarching Understandings:Overarching Essential Questions:
District Established Goals (Grade Level Expectations):
- Understand that productive resources -natural, human, capital- are scarce; therefore, choices are made about how individuals, businesses, governments, and societies allocate these resources
- Understand that economic policies affect markets
- Readers critically analyze the structures of texts, evaluate claims and perspectives, synthesize information, and make meaning of complex concepts.
- Writers demonstrate and expand their understanding by researching, engaging in the writing process, and crafting authentic argumentative and informative texts.
Overarching Understandings:Overarching Essential Questions:
- All choices involve costs.
- What motivates people’s choices?
- Scarcity of resources affects the choices of individuals, businesses and communities/societies.
- How does scarcity influence decisions?