# Grade 5: 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/il-ss-grade-5

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

Goal: Illinois academic standards: Social studies, Grade 5

## 1. Economics and Financial Literacy · Our Nation

- [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
- [Taxes & Public Services](https://ai.page/c/taxes-and-public-services/index.md): What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

## 2. History · Our Nation

- [Questioning Historical Sources](https://ai.page/c/questioning-historical-sources/index.md): Before trusting a historical source, ask: who made this, when, and why? — the answers shape how much weight the source should carry

## 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
- Taxes & Public Services has no explanation yet
- Questioning Historical Sources has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Illinois academic standards: Social studies (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Social-Science.aspx); 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.