5th+SS+standard+2

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.1 Are your wants and needs the same as our governments?** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Assess roads, post offices, and social programs as a want or need for government spending.**


 * 1) **Is buying a fur coat a want or a need?** ||
 * //If there are Checks for Understanding under the SPI, give each one a topic and list essential question(s). If there are no Checks for Understanding listed under the SPI, then give the SPI a topic and essential question(s).// ||

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.2 Differentiate between a economic boom and bust.** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Write a newspaper article for the Denver Post about a silver strike in Carson City. Describe the life of a boom city.**


 * 1) **Would you describe the past 5 years in Smith County a boom or a bust economically?** ||
 * //If there are Checks for Understanding under the SPI, give each one a topic and list essential question(s). If there are no Checks for Understanding listed under the SPI, then give the SPI a topic and essential question(s).// ||

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.3 Recognize the concept of buying on credit.** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Calculate the difference of the cost of a car for $5000 when you pay cash or %5 for 3 years.**


 * 1) **If you want a car, what steps do you follow to get one?** ||

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.4 Interpret economic issues as expressed in maps, tables, diagrams, and charts (i.e., automobile sales, unemployment rates, or airplane production).** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic: Read a map, table, graph, etc.** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Looking at the chart, in what year did Americans buy more automobiles?**
 * 1) **Based on the information given, estimate the number of cars that will be sold in 2020.** ||

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.5 Analyze how environmental changes and crisis affeected the economy across the nation in the 1930's (i.e., Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Hoovervilles).** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic: Effect of Great Depression on the US** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **How did farming techniques of hte time lead to the Dust Bowl?**
 * 1) **Critique Hoover's leadership skills and how they directly affected events of the Great Depression.** ||

**5th/Social Studies** || **5.2.spi.6 Recognize how Americans used credit/installment plans to purchase consumer goods in the 1920's (i.e., vacuum cleaners, washing machines, radios, and other home appliances).** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level:**
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic: Use of credit as payment during the 20's** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Identify the products of the 20's that were paid with credit/installment payments.**
 * 1) **Calculate the amount of interest you would pay on a washing machine costing $200 at 6% interest.** ||