Georgia SS7E7.a
The Standard
Compare how traditional, command, and market economies answer the economic questions of 1-what to produce, 2-how to produce, and 3-for whom to produce.
Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies · Analyze different economic systems.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare who decides which goods and services are made, which resources and methods are used, and who receives the results. They explain how custom, government planners, or buyers and sellers shape those choices.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can apply all three systems to the same production scenario and predict how decisions would differ. They support each comparison with details about who controls resources, work, prices, and distribution.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume a market economy has no government role or that a command economy gives everyone equal access to goods. They may also confuse traditional economies with poor economies rather than economies guided mainly by customs.
How to Assess It
- Give students three scenarios: family custom sets jobs, a ministry assigns production quotas, and customer demand guides factories. Ask them to identify each system and explain who makes the production and distribution decisions.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups product, worker, resource, and customer cards, then have them build one production plan under each assigned economy.
Ask students to write which system would respond fastest to a rice shortage and defend their choice with two reasons.
Play Decision Maker Match, where teams pair scenario cards with custom, government planners, or buyers and sellers.
Compare how a North Korean factory and a South Korean company make output, production, and customer decisions using short source cards.
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