Social Studies HS Guide

STRAND 4: Fiscal Policies and Decisions

STANDARD 4.1

PACING

RESOURCES

●​ See Government &

Civics Year at a Glance

●​ Work together as a PLC to determine individual standard pacing.

STANDARDS Students will examine the fiscal decisions governmental agencies must make and the economic philosophies that guide those decisions. CONCEPTS (Nouns) SKILLS (Verbs) LANGUAGE SUPPORTS ●​ Fiscal decisions ●​ Examine

●​ Argue ●​ Best Practices for MLs in Secondary Content Area Classes

●​ Governmental agencies ●​ Economic philosophies

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

●​ Identify economic philosophies that impact government decisions today. Examples may include: Keynesian economics, monetarism, and supply-side economics. ●​ Review examples of government agencies. ●​ Examine fiscal decisions governmental agencies must make and the economic philosophies that guide those decisions.

VOCABULARY

●​ Fiscal decisions ●​ Governmental agencies ●​ Economic philosophies DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION Skill Building

●​ Inquiry