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Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Describe the ways in which local producers have used and are using natural resources, human resources, and capital resources to produce goods and services in the past and the present.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that some goods are made locally, some elsewhere in the United States, and some abroad.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Understand that individual economic choices involve trade-offs and the evaluation of benefits and costs.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-3.5 Students demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills and an understanding of the economy of the local region.

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Discuss the relationship of students’ “work” in school and their personal human capital.

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Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.1 Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

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Describe how geography and climate influenced the way various nations lived and adjusted to the natural environment, including locations of villages, the distinct structures that they built, and how they obtained food, clothing, tools, and utensils.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.1 Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

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Describe their varied customs and folklore traditions.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.1 Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

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Explain their varied economies and systems of government.

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Students trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.2 Students trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.

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Describe the entrepreneurial characteristics of early explorers (e.g., Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado) and the technological developments that made sea exploration by latitude and longitude possible (e.g., compass, sextant, astrolabe, seaworthy ships, chronometers, gunpowder).