Grade 6 Social Studies Nevada standards Standards

Social Studies - Financial Literacy

Grade 3: Movement Around Our World

Distinguish between needs and wants.

Describe the difference between saving and spending.

Define personal information and what is appropriate to share or keep private.

Grade 4: Nevada: Past and Present

Identify methods of payment for goods and services.

Explain the benefits of saving and methods of saving including but not limited to financial institutions, piggy banks, etc.

Determine the consequences of sharing personal information with others.

Examine jobs related to a career of interest.

Grade 5: U.S.: Creating a New Nation

Describe the importance of setting financial goals.

Compare interest in regard to credit and savings.

Identify methods of how to protect one’s identity from common threats.

Explain the standard of living in relationship to quality of life.

Grades 6-8 Financial Literacy Standards

Prioritize and evaluate personal financial goals based on needs and wants

Identify college and career options and their effect on the standard of living.

Identify important academic requirements for financing postsecondary programs.

Investigate consequences of potential financial decisions to make reasoned financial choices

Describe the services offered by various financial institutions.

Discuss the components of a personal budget, including income, planned spending, and expenses

Explain how debit cards differ from credit cards.

Explain an individual’s rights and responsibilities as a consumer.

Discuss the cost of borrowing money for different types of goods and services including but not limited to: consumables, vehicles, education, and housing.

Investigate ways to prevent and limit the consequences of identity theft and fraud.

Explain how an investment differs from a savings account in potential risks and returns.

Grades 9-12: Financial Literacy

Analyze the alternatives and consequences of financial decision-making in the development of financial goals

Analyze the purpose and specifics of various insurance plans as well as compare quality of insurance providers.

Evaluate college and career choices and their effect on the standard of living.

Practice completing important financial, academic, and career documents including but not limited to: loan applications, scholarship applications, job applications, resumes, etc.

Analyze the requirements and benefits of postsecondary financing options including but not limited to: Free Application for Federal Student Aid, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship, Silver State Opportunity Grant Program, prepaid tuition, and college savings programs.

Evaluate assessment and computation of taxes at the local, state, and federal level.

Locate and evaluate financial information from various sources.

Develop and evaluate a personal financial plan, including a savings plan, utilizing a financial record keeping system.

Analyze the cost and benefits of different types of credit and debt including how to avoid and resolve debt problems.

Explain the purpose of a credit report, how that report is used by lenders, and the borrower’s rights and responsibilities related to a credit report.

Compare and contrast different types of loans with attention to, interest rates, terms of the loan, compounding frequency in relation to managing debt and consequences of acquiring debt.

Analyze methods to prevent and limit the consequences of identity theft and fraud.

Distinguish the cost and benefits of various investment strategies including securities, stocks, and bonds; with attention to compound interest and methods of buying and selling investments.

Early U.S. History and Civic Ideals

World Geography and Global Studies

Early World Civilizations (prior to 1500)

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Assess the impact of diverse ideologies on politics, society, and culture in early U.S. History.

Investigate the factors that shaped group and national identity in early U.S. History and how that relates to views of American identity today.

Interpret historical events from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives including but not limited to: Native Americans vs. settlers, Northerners vs. Southerners, native citizens vs. immigrants, etc.

Evaluate the causes and effects of regional differences in early U.S. History.

Analyze the influence of diverse cultural traditions on early American society.

Analyze the impact of the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, geographic, intellectual, and artistic changes throughout the course of U.S. History.

Explain how individuals and events in Nevada's history both influence and are influenced by the larger national context.

Analyze the impact of westward expansion on the Native communities of Nevada.

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Investigate migration and immigration patterns to Nevada as part of U.S. History.

Evaluate the use of conflict and diplomacy in international relations from a U.S. perspective.

Investigate the causes, impacts, and attitudes towards conflict and war from various points of view throughout early U.S. History.

Analyze the causes, impact, and abolition of slavery in U.S. History.

Analyze the ways in which dominant cultures have oppressed groups through institutionalized discrimination within U.S. History.

Evaluate the impact of individuals and reform movements on the struggle for greater civil rights and liberties throughout early U.S. History.

Assess the impacts of cultural diffusion when diverse groups interact within early U.S. History.

Investigate the ways in which individuals and groups build communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout early U.S. History.

Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of our community and nation.

Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions of diverse individuals in early U.S. History.

Generate supporting documents that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.

Examine the role the media has played in shaping public perception and policies throughout early U.S. History.

Describe the different political, civil, religious, and economic organizations throughout U.S. History.

Analyze the expansion of representative government throughout early U.S. History.

Compare a current national issue to a historical event from early U.S. History in order to propose a solution based upon past outcomes.

Evaluate the social, political, and economic changes that have impacted the evolution of laws throughout U.S. History.

Utilize and construct maps and images to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in early U.S History.

Explain how the human, physical, and environmental characteristics of early U.S. regions influenced and impacted the creation of new cultures.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influenced the movement of people, goods, and ideas throughout early U.S. History.

Explore the causes, motivations, and consequences of migration and immigration, both voluntary and forced, in early U.S. History; including but not limited to: Trail of Tears, western movement, Great Migration, various waves of immigration, etc.

Explain how global circumstances affect changes in immigration, land use, and population distribution in various regions across early U.S History.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.

Analyze the role of innovations and entrepreneurship in institutions throughout early U.S History.

Evaluate how economic policies impact individuals, businesses, and society including, but not limited to: Louisiana Purchase, the slave trade, plantation economy, Reconstruction.

Assess the state of the early U.S. economy based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.

Investigate the effects of U.S. foreign economic policy both nationally and globally across early U.S. History.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Using varied source materials, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence, and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts. questions

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional and global problems at various times and places.

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Compare rise and fall of kingdoms and empires across the ancient world with attention to governmental systems and political developments.

Examine instances of conflict, oppression, human rights violations, and genocide across the ancient world as well as responses to these violations.

Describe the factors that shape identity, including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society in ancient civilizations.

Interpret historical events from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives including but not limited to: Romans vs. "barbarians," conquerors vs. conquered, Mongols vs. Ming Chinese.

Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, and the arts.

Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures in the ancient world.

Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy in ancient world interactions.

Analyze the ways in which dominant cultures have oppressed conquered peoples or minority groups within early civilizations as well as the responses of those groups to this oppression.

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Assess the impacts of cultural diffusion when diverse groups interact within and across early civilizations.

Investigate the ways in which civilizations build communities of respect, equity, and diversity throughout early world history.

Analyze the intellectual, cultural, religious, and artistic contributions to our modern world of racially and ethnically diverse individuals and cultures of early civilizations.

Describe the different political, civil, religious, and economic organizations of early civilizations.

Compare a current global issue to a historical event from an ancient civilization in order to propose a solution based upon past outcomes.

Compare and contrast government structures, processes, and laws within and across early civilizations.

Utilize and construct maps and images to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in early civilizations.

Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affected the lives of the people who lived here.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas in various early civilizations.

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in early civilizations including, but not limited to: rural vs. urban, major waterways, pandemics, slavery.

Differentiate economic systems, patterns of trade and how those impact civilizations.

Assess the economies of ancient civilizations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.

Explain how trade has impacted economic growth, labor markets, rights of citizens, the environment, and resources and income distribution in different ancient civilizations.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context and supporting sources corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Using varied source material, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong using evidence, and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and critiquing conclusions reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.

Construct compelling questions based upon disciplinary concepts.

Draw on disciplinary concepts to explain the challenges people have faced, are facing, and opportunities they have created in addressing local, regional, and global problems at various times and places.

Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action regarding important contemporary issues.

Compare rise and fall of governmental systems and political developments across the world.

Examine instances of conflict, oppression, human rights violations and genocide across the world as well as responses to these violations.

Describe the factors that shape identity, including institutions, religion, language, social class, geography, culture, and society.

Interpret current events from a variety of cultural perspectives.

Investigate cultural developments within and across human societies with attention to belief systems, philosophies, ideologies, and the arts.

Analyze the impact of technological developments on events, peoples, and cultures across the world.

Investigate Nevada's role in the world using the five themes of geography: place, location, human environment interaction, movement, and region.

Analyze the use of conflict and/or diplomacy in global interactions.

Evaluate various interpretations in answer to compelling questions within and across disciplines.

Explore instances of oppression in the modern world as well as individual and group resistance movements for social justice which have developed in response.

Investigate the ways in which individuals and nations build communities of respect, equity, and diversity across the world today.

Discuss the contributions of racially and ethnically diverse leaders to the advancement of communities and nations around the world.

Distinguish and apply the powers and responsibilities of global citizens, interest groups, and the media in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental contexts.

Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people's lives.

Investigate a current global issue and propose a course of action to solve it.

Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of laws, treaties, and international agreements.

Utilize and construct maps, charts, and other geographic representations to explain and analyze regional, environmental, and cultural characteristics in various places around the world.

Explain how changes in transportation, communication, and technology influence the movement of people, goods, and ideas.

Generate supporting questions that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within the discipline.

Explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular areas.

Explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.

Analyze and explain the cultural, physical, and environmental characteristics of places and regions and how these affected the lives of the people who lived there.

Explain and evaluate how economic policies impact individuals, businesses, government structures, and international organizations from a local to global scale.

Explain how supply and demand, costs and competition influence market prices, wages, social, and environmental outcomes.

Assess the economies of various nations based on trade, resources, labor, monetary system, and other factors.

Investigate the impact of global trade policies on nations and their citizens.

Gather relevant information from multiple texts and evaluate the sourcing, context, and corroboration of the texts with close reading and disciplinary skills.

Seek multiple media sources when investigating current issues and evaluate the credibility and reliability of each.

Using varied source material, develop an argument based on substantive claims, with strong evidence and clear reasoning.

Examine different arguments while pointing out the strengths and limitations of each.

Construct organized explanations for various audiences and purposes using evidence and reasoning.

Participate in rigorous academic discussions, emphasizing multiple viewpoints in which claims and evidence is acknowledged and critiqued.

Generate supporting questions that will lead to inquiry and research on compelling issues within questions the discipline in order to answer compelling questions.