# Grade 4: Social studies

A course roadmap (social-studies). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 9 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/pa-ss-grade-4

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

Goal: Pennsylvania academic standards: Social studies, Grade 4

## 1. Income, Profit, and Wealth

- [Earning Money](https://ai.page/c/earning-money/index.md): 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](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

## 3. Functions of Government

- [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

## 4. Markets and Economic Systems

- [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
- [Advertising & Spending](https://ai.page/c/advertising-and-spending/index.md): 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](https://ai.page/c/your-impact-on-others/index.md): 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](https://ai.page/c/the-world-contains-many-cultures-traditions/index.md): 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](https://ai.page/c/vocabulary-historical-thinking/index.md): 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](https://ai.page/c/community-rights-and-responsibilities/index.md): 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

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Of its 9 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

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- Earning Money has no explanation yet
- Global Trade comes before How the Economy Works, which it needs
- Global Trade has no explanation yet
- Taxes & Public Services has no explanation yet
- How the Economy Works has no explanation yet
- Advertising & Spending has no explanation yet
- Your Impact on Others has no explanation yet
- The world contains many cultures, traditions has no explanation yet
- Vocabulary: historical thinking has no explanation yet
- Community Rights and Responsibilities has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Pennsylvania academic standards: Social studies (http://www.pdesas.org/main/fileview/Academic_Standards_for_Economics_(Elementary).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.