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CHAPTER 4: WHAT SOCIAL STUDIES PLAN- NING TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?
NCSS Curriculum Standards: Themes that relate to the unit:
VI. Power, Authority, and Governance: The study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.
VII. Production, Distribution, and Consumption:
The study of how people organize for the produc- tion, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Consider making a concept web with government at the center, with concepts related to government.
CHAPTER 7: HOW CAN I TEACH THE OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES POWERFULLY?
Content is drawn from political science (the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance) and economics (the study of how people organize the production, distribution,
and consumption of goods and services) for this lesson. Government at all levels serves as the power/authority structure for determining the services needed in a given community that individuals/families cannot pay for themselves. The government figures out how these services will be provided and how much they will cost the taxpayers. Often times, people are asked to vote on issues related to taxes. The economics aspects of the lesson relate to the consumption of services—in this case services the government provides, using the indi- vidual tax dollars to pay for them.
CHAPTER 8: HOW CAN I USE DISCOURSE POWERFULLY?
For this lesson, we recommend using interactive narrative. Its main function is to gather, review, and connect information from previous lessons and to expand on ideas students bring up by using the arti- facts, charts, and pictures from previous lessons and input students have acquired from their families about governmental services and the taxes they pay to support them.
Citizens (roles include voting, following rules, paying taxes)
Government
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Services (e.g., police, library, parks, roads, transportation)
People involved (e.g., executive, legislative, and judicial branches)
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