Alabama Social Studies SS24.E.7

SS24.E.7 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.E.7a

  Research and explain ways the government influences the economy, including promoting and securing competition, protecting private property rights, distributing ...

• SS24.E.7b

  Assess how government regulation and deregulation affect consumers and producers.

• SS24.E.7c

  Explain how the budgetary categories of government revenue and expenditures impact the collection of taxes and the distribution of resources.

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What Students Need to Do

Students use examples to explain why governments protect ownership, keep firms competing, provide shared services, and address pollution. They compare how adding or removing rules affects buyers and sellers. They trace taxes into spending on services and aid, and explain how spending can help during a slump.

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What Mastery Looks Like

Given a pollution or monopoly case, a student can defend a policy and explain its costs and benefits. They can read a simple budget, identify tax sources and spending categories, and say who pays and who benefits. They can explain how a tax cut or more spending might affect jobs during a downturn.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may call a store a public good because anyone can enter, though its goods are sold to individual buyers. They may assume every rule raises prices or that removing rules always helps buyers. They may confuse money the government collects with money it spends.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A city taxes factory emissions and spends the money on a public park. Name the problem, identify the revenue and spending items, and predict what happens to the factory and nearby residents if the tax is removed.

1. 01

   Give groups paper pollution tokens and roles as factory owners and neighbors; have them negotiate cleanup costs before and after a pollution fee.

2. 02

   Have pairs argue whether to keep restaurant food safety grades, naming one effect on diners and one on restaurant owners.

3. 03

   Give teams sales tax and property tax revenue cards and spending cards for roads, schools, and jobless aid; have them balance a budget.

4. 04

   Open your city's posted budget; identify its largest revenue source, biggest spending category, and one resident affected by each.

• SS24.E.4

  Draw conclusions about how supply, demand, and price interact in a market economy.

• SS24.E.3c

  Compare the ways that different economic systems address competition, consumer sovereignty, government regulation, private ownership, and profit motive.