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Grade 6 Month 4 The Wonder of Economics
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Understanding the history of economics, beginning with the Indigenous people, bartering, trading, and following its unfolding into today’s economic system. Learning occurs through practical activities such as business ideas and start-ups, basic banking, and money management.
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Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Math: Concept: Mixed numbers and decimal numbers represent quantities that can be decomposed into parts and wholes.
Connection: Your child will be building skills in converting fractions and decimals to percent.
Concept: Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with whole numbers and decimals.
Connection: Your child will be practicing skills in all 4 operations as they learn how to calculate percent in a variety of situations.
Language Arts: Concept: Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
Connection: Your child is learning about the history of economics and considering different opinions and perspectives on how to live and work together to meet our human needs.
Social Studies: Concept: Economic self-interest can be a significant cause of conflict among peoples and government.
Connection: Your child is learning about different economic systems and forming opinions and uncovering their own values.
Connection: Your child will be building skills in converting fractions and decimals to percent.
Concept: Computational fluency and flexibility with numbers extend to operations with whole numbers and decimals.
Connection: Your child will be practicing skills in all 4 operations as they learn how to calculate percent in a variety of situations.
Language Arts: Concept: Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
Connection: Your child is learning about the history of economics and considering different opinions and perspectives on how to live and work together to meet our human needs.
Social Studies: Concept: Economic self-interest can be a significant cause of conflict among peoples and government.
Connection: Your child is learning about different economic systems and forming opinions and uncovering their own values.
Curriculum Overview
Your child will be introduced to the history of economics. They will gain a feeling for the unfolding of the different economic systems in human history, and how this has shifted from survival needs to complex wanting. Values and desires will be looked at, as they relate to supply and demand. Your child will come to learn about the flow of money in the currency economy and learn how to calculate percent for a wide variety of circumstances. Through daily review of content, your child will engage in conversation that draws out their thoughts and opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of the economies they are studying. They will then take their thoughts and opinions, and write them into paragraphs, to be included in their portfolio. The math skills will lead to an introduction to formulas. This introduction will serve as a connection to the math that comes in grade 7.