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Standard 4, Alternate Assessment for Students with Severe Disabilities

Key Idea: Students will study major economic concepts.

Performance Indicators for Students with Severe Disabilities

Performance Indicators--Students:

learn and communicate about jobs in their community
understand that money is necessary to buy goods and services
communicate about how goods and services are produced
develop and demonstrate money management skills

Social Studies Standard 4 Economics

Students will: use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the U.S. and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.

Last Updated: April 27, 2009