# Grade 6: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 4 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/ct-ss-grade-6

Part of: [Connecticut: Social studies](https://ai.page/roadmap/ct-ss.md)

Goal: Connecticut academic standards: Social studies, Grade 6

## 1. Economic Decision-Making and Exchanges

- [How the Economy Works](https://ai.page/c/how-the-economy-works/index.md): What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
- [Global Trade](https://ai.page/c/global-trade/index.md): Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

## 2. Communicate Conclusions and Take Informed Action

- [Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias](https://ai.page/c/risk-uncertainty-and-cognitive-bias/index.md): Distinguish between risk (decisions with known probabilities) and uncertainty (decisions with unknown outcomes); identify cognitive biases that distort risk assessment: availability heuristic (judging likelihood by how easily examples come to mind), present bias (overvaluing the immediate over the future), optimism bias (underestimating personal risk), and groupthink; understand why adolescent brains are biologically calibrated toward higher risk tolerance; apply a structured decision-making framework to real choices; understand the role of personal values in decisions where facts alone cannot determine the answer

## 3. Evaluate Sources and Use Evidence

- [Checking Sources Against Each Other](https://ai.page/c/checking-sources-against-each-other/index.md): Corroborate: check whether multiple sources agree on the same facts — and investigate why they might not

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 4 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI):

- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet
- Global Trade has no explanation yet
- Risk, Uncertainty, and Cognitive Bias has no explanation yet
- Checking Sources Against Each Other has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Connecticut academic standards: Social studies (https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/sde/social-studies/socialstudiesstandards.pdf); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.