Oklahoma Social Studies 6.P.2.4.A

Social Studies6th GradeSocial Studies Practices

The Standard

6.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
6.P.2.4: Identify the principles of economic systems and develop an understanding of the benefits of a market system in local, national, and global settings.

Analyze, interpret, and compare economic data from multiple charts and graphs.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 6.P.2.4

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students read the titles, axes, units, and dates on economic charts and graphs. They find patterns and compare what the graphs show, using numbers as evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can read the bread price for a given year from one graph and the weekly wage for that year from another. They can describe how each changed over time without treating dollars per loaf and dollars per week as the same measure.
Common Misconceptions: Students may mistake a steep-looking line for a large change without checking the scale. They may compare bar heights across graphs with different units or assume that two trends prove one caused the other.
How to Assess It: Give students a bread-price bar chart and a weekly-wage line graph for 2022 to 2024. Ask them to report one change from each graph, cite the values, and explain why the units cannot be compared directly.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a bread-price bar chart and a wage line graph; have them highlight the units and circle values for the same two years.
Ask, 'Do rising wages mean bread is easier to afford?' Have students cite numbers from both graphs before answering.
Play graph detective: display two economic graphs, read a claim aloud, and have teams find plotted values that support or challenge it.
Use two grocery flyers from different months to graph egg and milk prices, then compare the graphs to plan a $10 breakfast.

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