8th+SS+standard+2

**8.2.spi.1 recognize America's natural resources (i.e., land, timber, fish, animal pelts, peppers, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkins, turkeys, peanuts, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, cacao, beans, and vanilla).** ||
 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * **Assessment Topic: U.S. Natural Resources** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **How did America's resources enable the early settlers to survive?**
 * 1) **Identify the different foods in each region of the country and how they were used by the inhabitants.** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.interpret a diagram showing the steps of changing a resource into a product.** ||
 * **Assessment Topic: Understanding Diagrams and Graphs** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Design a flow chart showing the steps of a raw material into a finished product.** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.3 differentiate between credit and debt.** ||
 * **Assessment Topic: Credit and Debt** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What is debt?**
 * 1) **What factors determine good credit for a person?** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.4 recognize the economic activities of early America (i.e., agriculture, industry, and service).** ||
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What economic activities encouraged the growth in each colony?**
 * 1) **What track were used mainly as trade routes?**
 * 2) **Analyze how the growth of agriculture in the South encouraged the growth of slavery?** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.5 identify various froms of taxation (i.e., tariffs, sales tax, excise tax).** ||
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **Identify the different forms of taxation.**
 * 1) **What is a tariff?**
 * 2) **Relate how Britain's taxation of the colonists lead directly to the revolution.** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.6 interpret a variety of economic graphs and charts with topic (i.e. the Columbian exchange, numbers of slaves, population of colonies, population diversity).** ||
 * **Assessment Topic: Understanding graphs and charts with economic topics** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **How did the Columbian Exchange improve the resources for the western hemisphere?**
 * 1) **Explain why the middle colonies were more diverse than the southern or New England colonies.** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.7 differentiate between a commercial and subsistence economy.** ||
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What is the difference between commercial and subsistence economies?**
 * 1) **What is subsistence farming?**
 * 2) **Drawing Conclusions--Why was New England an subsistence economy instead of a commercial one in agriculture?** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.8 recognize the factors that led to urbanization and industrialization in early America (i.e., religious freedom, land ownership, thriving market).** ||
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What factors led to the growth of cities and factories?**
 * 1) **What ws the Industrial Revolution?**
 * 2) **Illustrate how the growth of America's industry affected the population of cities.** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.9 analyze in economice terms, (i.e., climate, triangle trade, infrastrucure, topography), why slavery flourished in the South as opposed to the North.** ||
 * **Assessment Topic: Understanding factors that encouraged the growth of slavery** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What is one reason why slavery flourished in the South but not in the North?**
 * 1) **Analyze how the expansion of cotton growth westward is connected with the spread of slavery?** ||
 * //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).// ||


 * **Subject/Course:** **Grade Level: 8th/ Social Studies** ||
 * **Standard: 2.0 Economics** ||
 * **SPI or Check for Understanding (#):**
 * 8.2.spi.10 distinguish among various economic markets found in early America (i.e., traditional, monopoly, oligopoly, free competition).** ||
 * **Assessment Topic:** ||
 * **Essential Question (s):** ||
 * # **What does it mean when a company has a monopoly on a product?**
 * 1) **Compare a free market to a monoply.** ||
 * //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).// ||