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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).

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Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).

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Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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HSS-6.1 Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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Describe the hunter-gatherer societies, including the development of tools and the use of fire.

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HSS-6.1 Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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Identify the locations of human communities that populated the major regions of the world and describe how humans adapted to a variety of environments.

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HSS-6.1 Students describe what is known through archaeological studies of the early physical and cultural development of humankind from the Paleolithic era to the agricultural revolution.

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Discuss the climatic changes and human modifications of the physical environment that gave rise to the domestication of plants and animals and new sources of clothing and shelter.

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Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

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HSS-6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

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Locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.