Oklahoma Social Studies E.P.2.4.B

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Social Studies Practices

The Standard

E.P.2: Use interdisciplinary tools to acquire, apply, and evaluate content understanding of the four strands of social studies.
E.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.

Construct arguments using a combination of evidence regarding solutions used by nations to address historical or contemporary economic issues.

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

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students argue whether a nation's response to an economic problem worked. They combine figures with a written account, explain how each supports their claim, and consider another possible explanation.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can argue which bank response better protected workers after 2008, using policy details and unemployment trends from the U.S. and Iceland. They explain why the trends alone cannot prove what caused them.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat a drop in unemployment as proof that a bank policy caused it. They may cite a policy's goal as evidence of success, or use only one country's data to compare two countries.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Using the U.S. and Iceland unemployment graphs and bank policy cards, argue which response better protected workers after 2008. Cite a policy detail and a graph trend, then name one limit of your evidence.

Lesson moves

Give pairs printed unemployment graphs and bank policy cards for the U.S. and Iceland after 2008; have them sort evidence by claim.
Ask: Which bank response better protected workers after 2008? Write a claim using a policy detail and an unemployment trend.
Play evidence match: groups pair claims about each country's bank response with data cards, then flag matches that do not support the claim.
Use an FDIC deposit insurance FAQ to ask whether a family with $5,000 at an insured bank would lose that money if it failed.

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