How to learn Grade 8: Social studies
Nebraska academic standards: Social studies, Grade 8
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1. Economics · Illustrate how international trade impacts individuals, organizations, and nations.
- Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies
2. Economics · Understand personal and business financial management.
- Financial Planning: Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money
3. Civics · Evaluate the roles, responsibilities, and rights as local, state, national, and international citizens.
- Global Citizenship: 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