# Grade 8: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 5 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/fl-ss-grade-8

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

Goal: Florida academic standards: Social studies, Grade 8

## 1. Financial Literacy · Protecting and Insuring

- [Online Identity and Misinformation](https://ai.page/c/online-identity-and-misinformation/index.md): Understand the ethics of online identity and the importance of consistency between who you are online and offline; explain how recommendation algorithms and filter bubbles narrow information exposure; evaluate the psychology of misinformation: why it spreads, why smart people believe it, and how to apply source evaluation (lateral reading, checking evidence, recognising emotional manipulation); understand digital consent around sharing images or personal information; explore the ethics of AI, surveillance, and data privacy as they affect everyday life; reflect on responsible content creation and online influence

## 2. Financial Literacy · Using Credit

- [Borrowing & Debt](https://ai.page/c/borrowing-and-debt/index.md): What borrowing money means; that loans must be repaid with interest; what credit is; why too much debt can be risky; responsible borrowing

## 3. Financial Literacy · Saving

- [Financial Planning](https://ai.page/c/financial-planning/index.md): Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

## 4. Civics and Government (Starting 2023-2024) · Evaluate the roles, rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens, and determine methods of active participation in society, government and the political sy

- [Global Citizenship](https://ai.page/c/global-citizenship/index.md): Understand what it means to be a citizen in an interconnected world where decisions in one place affect people elsewhere; explore global issues (climate justice, forced migration, global health, poverty) through an empathy lens, distinguishing facts from value judgements; engage with the ethical tension between obligations to those close to us and obligations to distant strangers; introduce evidence-based giving and effective altruism as one framework for thinking about global responsibility; develop a personal, reasoned stance on global citizenship that acknowledges complexity

## 5. Economics · Understand the fundamental concepts and interrelationships of the United States economy in the international marketplace.

- [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

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 5 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):

- Online Identity and Misinformation has no explanation yet
- Borrowing & Debt has no explanation yet
- Financial Planning has no explanation yet
- Global Citizenship has no explanation yet
- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Florida academic standards: Social studies (https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19975/urlt/5-3.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.