How to learn Grade 4: Social studies
Pennsylvania academic standards: Social studies, Grade 4
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1. Income, Profit, and Wealth
- Earning Money: Ways that children and adults earn money; the connection between work, skills and pay; that harder or more skilled work often pays more
2. Economic Interdependence
- Global Trade: Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies
3. Functions of Government
- Taxes & Public Services: 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
4. Markets and Economic Systems
- How the Economy Works: What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work
- Advertising & Spending: How advertising tries to influence what we buy; being a critical consumer; understanding 'value for money'; the difference between emotional and rational spending
5. Interactions Between People and the Environment
- Your Impact on Others: Reflect on how your behaviour lands on others — consider not just what you intended but what the actual impact was on the other person
6. World History
- The world contains many cultures, traditions: Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity
7. Historical Analysis and Skills Development
- Vocabulary: historical thinking: Know and use the vocabulary of historical thinking — source, evidence, primary source, secondary source, artefact, chronology, chronological order, BC/BCE, AD/CE, century, decade, era, period, timeline, excavation, archaeologist, interpretation, corroborate, bias, perspective — and apply these terms when discussing how we know about the past and how reliable our knowledge is
8. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
- Community Rights and Responsibilities: Understand their rights and responsibilities as a member of a community — that everyone has a right to be treated with respect and to feel safe, and that with rights come responsibilities to treat others the same way